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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

According to a reader, Word X does not correctly print pictures generated by ChemDraw if they include embedded PostScript data. Stéphane Mons writes: "I am a chemist who uses CambridgeSoft's ChemDraw ...

Apache's OpenOffice software suite allows you to insert complex graphics into your business publications using Encapsulated PostScript files. EPS files contain vector-based text and graphics that you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...