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 ...

As the bugs targeted by minor releases to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard become increasingly specific, it’s easy to become complacent about the possibility of an update introducing a new problem. That, ...

A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type designs ...

Regarding the `` PostScript Type 1 font '' that was often used in DTP, it was found that support for the Mac version of Office 365 ended with the update on August 15, 2023. Support for Type1 fonts has ...

Typekit has announced that it is now serving PostScript versions of certain fonts in order to work around a problem with Windows rendering. Those who haven’t upgraded to the DirectWrite type rendering ...

groff wouldn't be as much fun if we were stuck with just the few fonts that are part of the standard package. Fortunately, if you are using a PostScript device, groff makes it simple to install any ...

I have a number of PC/Windows Postscript fonts. Each such font consists of two files, one with a ".pfm" extension and one with a ".pfb" extension (i.e., "Alexa.pfm" and "Alexa.pfb"). Some of these ...

I am using a Windows XP system with a variety of Hewlett-Packard laser printers. Some of these are mid-range workgroup printers which support both PCL 6 and PostScript 2, and some are PCL-only. It ...