[R-SIG-Mac] [External] macOS Ventura (13) Preview App Drops Support for PS/EPS File Rendering

Wed Oct 26 16:31:29 CEST 2022

Have you considered ps2pdf?

> On Oct 26, 2022, at 10:11, Marc Schwartz via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Prof. Ripley,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Responses inline below.
> 
> On October 25, 2022 at 11:11:43 PM, Prof Brian Ripley (ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
>> Somehow you sent HTML only, and that renders oddly in Thunderbird.
> 
> My apologies on that. 
> 
> That is curious and I now see that in looking at the raw message content. I am not sure how that occurred, as I had set the e-mail to plain text when composing, so somehow that changed at some point. What is even more confusing, is that by default, had the e-mail been initially composed as HTML/RTF, it would normally be sent as multipart MIME, which does not appear to have been the case here, leaving me even more confused.
> 
> I am sending this now as plain text, so hopefully that is what is sent. I will keep track and if that is not the case, report a bug.
> 
>> Have you considered GhostScript? That used to be my viewer of choice
>> for Postscript long ago. I think TeXShop may be a wrapper.
> 
> Yes, TeXShop is a GUI front-end previewer as you note below, included in the macTeX distribution, using underlying functionality. Ghostscript 9.55 is also installed as part of macTeX, which I have installed as I still heavily use Sweave to generate PDF reports for clients, some of which use ps-tricks to generate flow chart figures. Thus, the included figure content is generated as PDF and PS/EPS files, which I sometimes quickly preview, until now, using macOS Preview.
> 
> There is some coverage now of this change in Preview in various Mac fora, with some hypothesizing that this change in Preview may be security related, pointing to a change by Microsoft in Office back in 2017/2018:
> 
> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2Fsupport-for-eps-images-has-been-turned-off-in-office-a069d664-4bcf-415e-a1b5-cbb0c334a840&data=05%7C01%7Crmh%40temple.edu%7C78ef812c421947a3942608dab75c0425%7C716e81efb52244738e3110bd02ccf6e5%7C0%7C0%7C638023903602892347%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TbOX5KoROWOLe%2BTAx3EN0rSDVwIp%2BbRwaQDhqSBJIz0%3D&reserved=0
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> Of course, nothing official from Apple that I have seen.
> 
>> My box has Photoshop as the default viewer for .eps and TeXShop for .ps.
>> I almost never use Photoshop: it comes as part of Adobe's
>> Photographers Bundle.
> 
> I also have the full Adobe Acrobat application installed, as I have other functionality provided by that app that I need, so pay for that as a business expense.
> 
> It is interesting that now that I am trying to open some PS/EPS files with apps other than Preview, if I use TeXShop, the file opens right away, whereas if I use Acrobat, I get a security pop-up asking me if I trust the source that generated the file, which in this case, is me. Perhaps Apple could take a similar approach with Preview, if security was the motivation for this change, and they elect to revert it.
> 
> This was more of a heads up for folks, who like me, have been dependent upon using Preview for a quick look at these files, which are commonly generated using R.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> On 26/10/2022 01:06, Marc Schwartz via R-SIG-Mac wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Having updated to macOS Ventura, I just became aware that Ventura's
>>> Preview app has dropped support for rendering PS and EPS files after all
>>> these years.
>>> 
>>> Not clear on the rationale for this change, but there is an Apple
>>> Support article here on this:
>>> 
>>> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-us%2FHT213250&data=05%7C01%7Crmh%40temple.edu%7C78ef812c421947a3942608dab75c0425%7C716e81efb52244738e3110bd02ccf6e5%7C0%7C0%7C638023903603048577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=YSoEWtjrSTW53AM9wF80GPHY%2BWz%2FxJIfJDykhrDW%2B%2B8%3D&reserved=0
>>> 
>>> Apparently, one can still print these files by dragging and dropping
>>> them on to the printer queue, but you will need to find a different
>>> application, such as the TeXShop app, which is bundled in macTeX for
>>> free, or another option is the full Adobe Acrobat Pro application, if
>>> you have and pay for that.
>>> 
>>> If you are so inclined, you can provide product feedback to Apple here:
>>> 
>>> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Ffeedback%2Fmacos.html&data=05%7C01%7Crmh%40temple.edu%7C78ef812c421947a3942608dab75c0425%7C716e81efb52244738e3110bd02ccf6e5%7C0%7C0%7C638023903603048577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JytUqQ28oLpcg5IkxE1deFl29tKPkRELVRkDVEye2NY%3D&reserved=0
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Marc Schwartz
>>> 
>>> 
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>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley, ripley using stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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