Huh. I knew that Postscript support had been (foolishly) removed from macOS' Preview.app, but apparently at some point after that the pstopdf converter was removed as well. I used to use this to read manpages in a nicer format than a Terminal window.

Oddly, man -t ps (i.e., output Postscript) still works fine; there's just no built-in way to open the result.

#macos #postscript

@carson

Forgive the rant, but how the heck does an OS built atop Display Postscript remove support for postscript?

Man, MacOS is really a bunch of squirrels in a trenchcoat pretending to be an OS anymore, innit? :E

@rl_dane macOS has never used DPS, iirc. That was just NeXT; Mac OS X used PDF under the hood. My recollection (possibly wrong) was that Apple did it that way in order to avoid paying license fees to Adobe for DPS.

@carson

Aye, but isn't Display PDF (Quartz, IIRC) just supercharged DPS, PDF being something of a superset of PS?