The graphics language used in the NeXT machine. It migrated to the Mac as of OS X in the form of Display PDF. Display PostScript is the screen counterpart of the PostScript printer language. It ...

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 Language Reference Manual, second edition, Adobe Systems Inc., Addison-Wesley, 1985. “The Red Book” is the standard reference material for all implementations up to and including Level 2 ...

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 ...

library routines. True, you’ll see PostScript most frequently when dealing with printers, but today most commercial X11 servers also include an Adobe Display PostScript (DPS) interpreter. Freely ...

I have tested with CT-DW branch and didn’t work. It must be because the SDK does not support kCTFontDisplayNameAttribute yet. As I have described in the issue, a font file has different names – real ...

Apple ended direct PostScript file support in macOS Sonoma, but you can still peek inside PDF files to see what they contain, by using PDF Debugger. PDF - the web's ubiquitous document format was ...

There was a time when each and every printer and typesetter had its own quirky language. If you had a wordprocessor from a particular company, it worked with the printers from that company, and that ...

When Gutenberg carved letters on a steel punch and cast them in molten lead, there was only one ”font,” or set of characters ready for the press: It resembled handwriting. Today, the use of different ...

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment: For all the attention on the love-hate relationship between Apple and Microsoft, there's ...