PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma (eclecticlight.co)

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For the last 39 years, PostScript has been at the heart of the Mac, bringing desktop publishing, fonts, and the LaserWriter and other printers. It has been removed from Sonoma.

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[-] Ender2k@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Wow…I hadn’t realized this was coming (or rather growing)—the last software I used that needed Postscript support was the Apple IIgs emulator Sweet 16 (the emulators print driver created a Postscript file on the host OS for printing)…but that’s been a few years.

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