PostScript’s Sudden Death in Sonoma

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  • chai

    chai - Experience Zero Trust security with Chai! Convert and view documents as vivid images right in your browser. No mandatory downloads, no hassle—just pure, joyful security! 🌈 (by dosyago)

  • If you're interested in this kind of thing, I packaged a lot of functionality (including zip files) into an open source doc viewer called "chai" (that also works on mac, install deps via brew).

    Please note its focus is on security rather than looks so it converts docs to page images that you then view in (an optionally local) web client.

    You can easily modify the convert process to move it to PDF rather than page images tho. Check it out: https://github.com/dosyago/chai

  • CUPS

    Apple CUPS Sources

  • Apple should be more open about their removals. It isn't clear how this affects their CUPS implementation or PostScript printers https://www.cups.org

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • pdfsizeopt

    PDF file size optimizer

  • > ...tools like pdftk have been able to losslessly compress them...

    I have had good luck with pdfsizeopt.

    https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt

  • TCPDF

    Official clone of PHP library to generate PDF documents and barcodes

  • TCPDF has full support for rendering an EPS into a PDF.

    It can be fussy.

    https://tcpdf.org/

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