Have you considered ps2pdf? > On Oct 26, 2022, at 10:11, Marc Schwartz via R-SIG-Mac > <r-sig-mac@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 (rip...@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 > > 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 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >>> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >>> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-sig-mac&data=05%7C01%7Crmh%40temple.edu%7C78ef812c421947a3942608dab75c0425%7C716e81efb52244738e3110bd02ccf6e5%7C0%7C0%7C638023903603048577%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uIsQJcSYPddHtxzv%2FsyRdwVFCfJ4pF1lzo3wRJuGyeY%3D&reserved=0 >> >> -- >> Brian D. 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