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Seems like PostScript is too powerful for the security conscious world. This is probably a good move. It's unfortunate though, I liked PostScript and all the stuff you can do with it[1].

What's the new standard for vector graphics going forward? SVG? glTF?

[1] For example: https://uguu.org/src_udonge_ps.html




PDF is the obvious successor. Though there are some things you can do with PS you can't do with PDF, because PDF AFAIU isn't a Turing complete language (though newer versions of PDF allow embedding of Javascript, IIRC).


> (though newer versions of PDF allow embedding of Javascript, IIRC)

Which comes with its own security issues/problems, especially since adobe is the leading figure of pdf viewing/processing. PDF 2.0 removed a lot of old crap, like xfa… and postscript but they kept JavaScript




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