The graphics language used in the NeXT machine. It migrated to the Mac as of OS X in the form of Display PDF. Display PostScript is the screen counterpart of the PostScript printer language. It ...

library routines. True, you’ll see PostScript most frequently when dealing with printers, but today most commercial X11 servers also include an Adobe Display PostScript (DPS) interpreter. Freely ...

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

I have tested with CT-DW branch and didn’t work. It must be because the SDK does not support kCTFontDisplayNameAttribute yet. As I have described in the issue, a font file has different names – real ...

When Gutenberg carved letters on a steel punch and cast them in molten lead, there was only one ”font,” or set of characters ready for the press: It resembled handwriting. Today, the use of different ...

Rasmus Funder describes a problem where PostScript fonts do not work correctly on his Mac running OS X 10.1 or 10.1.1: "In the Font panel of TextEdit - or other Cocoa apps - they show up as numbers (e ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: For all the attention on the love-hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, there's ...