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 ...

The latest OS X 10.6.5 release has a bug in the printing system that will prevent postscript files from being printed in landscape view. This will affect many programs that handle postscript files, ...

If you print PostScript graphics -- such as Encapsulated PostScript files created in drawing programs and page-layout applications -- to a non-PostScript office printer, you'll see either a gray box ...

gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sOutputFile=file.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -c .setpdfwrite "-c <</Orientation 3>> setpagedevice" -f *ps This command would convert all PS files in the current directory ...

Christopher Foote writes: “Is the poster using the OS X version of ChemDraw? I have never had this problem (but I always paste in the figures, not inserting them from the menu). However, another ...

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 ...

PostScript files can also contain images of very high quality, but they use a very different representation of data than do raster image files. PostScript is actually a language rather than a file ...

In a somewhat disappointing development, Apple has dropped support for PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files in macOS 13 Ventura’s version of Preview. The company did not offer a reason why, ...

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 ...

Starting with macOS Ventura, released this week, the built-in Preview app on Mac no longer supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files, according to a new Apple support document ...

In desktop and electronic publishing PostScript (PS) is often used. PS is a programming language and is known as a page description language. This language has a file extension of .ps. Opening a .ps ...