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 ...

An trio of tips and queries regarding fonts in Mac OS X: Displaying "graphic" fonts in Cocoa applications For several weeks now, we have been a bit mystified by the fact that we could not select nor ...

PostScript describes pages, vector graphics, and fonts PostScript is a very easy-to-read English-like language that describes objects to be drawn on a page. Commands are short and simple and usually ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our Marketing Manager just started using a new Titanium PB, (switching from a desktop PC) and is having some problems with printing if the font selected is our company standard - Minion. The job ...

PostScript font corruption Jamie McKee writes: There seems to be an issue with Mac OS X 10.1.2 (and probably earlier versions) whereby PostScript fonts get corrupted. See for example MacFixIt Forums ...

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 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 ...