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 fonts come in two flavors: Early, and Level 3. In PostScript Level 3, you have more flexibility and control over font rendering than in previous versions, largely due to improved handling ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

To quickly locate postscript fonts in your font library using Connect’s desktop app, follow these steps: Install Connect’s desktop app from Connectfonts.com by visiting the website, logging in, and ...

Right now, the spec includes postscript name (nameID=6) in the font metadata to uniquely identify fonts. I know some applications do use the postscript name to identify fonts. But when I read the ...

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 ...

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 ...