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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Design, edit, and convert OpenType, TrueType, and PostScript fonts, with Type Light (and a few limitations). Have you ever had a situation where you’ve just got to match a font, but you can’t for the ...

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 ...

The selection of fonts is central to document design. Knowing how to choose fonts not only affects legibility, but it also reinforces a document's tone and content. Yet, until recently, few Linux ...

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, ...