Preview also now hangs forever converting most .ps files, where previous versions worked a-ok :(
In fact, i haven't found a single .ps file it didn't hang on so far, but maybe i'm unlucky.
(so, basically, when i go to open an older paper, i have to go kill preview, run the paper through distiller, and then load it in something that isn't a disaster once i realize preview is also highly broken for pdfs anyway)
"Forever" likely means it takes a really long time to do the conversion. In my case the CPU was busy. It's also really prone to failure, even for simple PS with just text no graphics, such as the kind of PS generated by groff(1) on man pages.
Seeing the same thing and it's irksome. Preview will also choke on the pdf produced from such ps with ps2pdf. Acrobat opens them and when re-exported from Acrobat, Preview reads them again.
In fact, i haven't found a single .ps file it didn't hang on so far, but maybe i'm unlucky.
(so, basically, when i go to open an older paper, i have to go kill preview, run the paper through distiller, and then load it in something that isn't a disaster once i realize preview is also highly broken for pdfs anyway)