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RIP PostScript
Post Script, the page description P language that made desktop publishing and the Mac so popular in the 1980s, is now officially unsupported in macOS Sonoma. You can still print to PostScript printers and send PostScript files direct to them, but Preview can no longer image or convert them. You’ll find that the command tool pstopdf has vanished, and the same goes for Encapsulated PostScript, EPS.
While the language is ideal for printing and pre-press, it’s a gift to those who develop malicious software. Over the last year, severe vulnerabilities have been found in its interpreters, sufficient to make them a liability we could all do without.
This is the more poignant as John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe and architect of PostScript, EPS and PDF, died last August. Rest in peace, Dr Warnock and PostScript.
Virtual machines not as big as they seem
QCan I increase the size of the disk in the macOS Monterey virtual machine on my M2 MacBook Pro? by TRISTAN HUGHES
AAs of macOS Sonoma, there’s no known way to change the size of the disk image in a virtual machine (VM) running macOS on Apple silicon Macs, although that’s a feature we hope for in the future. Fortunately, there’s a trick to VMs that makes it better to create them big in the first place, as they don’t take up disk space they aren’t using. This also
