Apple drops PostScript support in Preview for macOS Ventura

As of the new macOS Ventura, Apple's Preview app will no longer support PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript documents.

Following the public release of macOS Ventura, Apple has issued a support document about .ps and .eps file support being removed from Preview.

"The Preview app included with your Mac supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files in macOS Monterey or earlier," says the new support document. "Starting with macOS Ventura, Preview no longer supports these files."

"Other apps that can view or convert .ps and .eps files are available from the App Store and elsewhere," it continues.

Apple does add that it is still possible to print PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files "by dragging them into your printer queue."

Open System Settings
Choose Printers & Scanners
Click on your printer's name
Click on the Printer Queue button
Drag the file onto the Printer Queue window

Apple has not given a reason for dropping support for these documents in Preview.

25 Comments

JWSC 1203 comments · 7 Years

About 2 years ago

Does this indicate Adobe’s decline in relevance? Years ago I was all in on Adobe. But they priced themselves out of the non-commercial market and I dropped them like a hot potato.

s.metcalf 964 comments · 21 Years

Presumably the pstopdf Terminal converter remains…?

neoncat 165 comments · 5 Years

JWSC said:

Does this indicate Adobe’s decline in relevance? Years ago I was all in on Adobe. But they priced themselves out of the non-commercial market and I dropped them like a hot potato.

What a weird take. But I get it, you just wanted to old-man-at-clouds about Adobe's subscription pricing. Go ahead and review every other structured drawing program on the Mac or iOS. Guess what file format they all use—some of them wrapped in their own file package, but they're all EPS at the core. It's *the* mathematical model for object drawing.

More I'd say it indicates Preview.app's decline in relevance.

macplusplus 2116 comments · 9 Years

.ps and .eps formats are no longer significant since service bureaus prefer PDF since almost two decades. Legacy graphic libraries and clip-art may be well converted with other utilities and applications. Not the end of the world. Meanwhile Preview is a handy utility for many tasks, it should be maintained.

ajmas 560 comments · 22 Years

In many ways PDF is the new Postscript, so it is just probably moving more people to convert PS & EPS to PDF? In fact I wonder how many people still use these format everyday?

It is still a shame that Preview does not support plugins, so third-parties could add the missing support.