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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...