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 ...

If you want to know about the history of desktop publishing, you need to know about Adobe’s PostScript fonts. PostScript fonts used vector graphics so that they could look crisp and clear no matter ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...