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 ...

Upcoming Windows releases will no longer include support for Adobe Postscript Type 1 fonts. Microsoft is now announcing the end of Type 1 font support. The discontinuation has now appeared on ...

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 ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FontGear, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of FontXChange version 6.0 for Mac OS. FontXChange is a powerful, easy to use font-conversion ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until 1984, the term font had meaning only to graphic designers, publishers and those for whom printing meant big presses, not desktop peripherals. Those of us who used computers back then were used ...

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 ...