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 ...

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 ...

A scalable font technology from Adobe that renders fonts for both the printer and the screen. PostScript fonts come in Type 1 and Type 3 formats. Type 1 fonts use a simple, efficient command language ...

Adobe has announced that they will end support for creating content with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Here's how you can prepare to make the shift to more widely supported formats. It's always ...

I need to buy a couple fonts for business purposes. I can get them in either Windows PostScript or Windows True Type. Which would I be more likely to get to display properly in Linux? I've heard ...

PostScript, or PS is a common printing language used by many printer manufacturers. PostScript may be common; however, it is not found available for many printers. PostScript is used in high-end ...

PostScript Type 1 fonts work fine on OS X. Minion also comes as a MultiMaster, which is not supported under X. I'm not sitting in front of my design box right now, but I'm almost positive Minion ...