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 ...

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 ...

PostScript printers print documents graphics and images regardless of their resolution, color schemes, and even platforms. This is so because PostScript language will use a vector-based algorithm ...

PostScript is used in high-end printers that are used in the printing industries, some offices, graphic designers, and others who need high-quality printing outputs. There are two types of ...

It also worked better with oddball and custom fonts, and the printer could cache fonts and graphics. Remember how releasing the spec helped the original PostScript? For Level 2, releasing it early ...

A vector graphics file is an image that can be made infinitely large or small without losing quality. Common vector file types include .AI (Adobe Illustrator), .EPS (Encapsulated Postscript), and ...

PostScript fonts used vector graphics so that they could look crisp and clear no matter what size they were, and Apple licensed PostScript fonts for the original LaserWriter printer; together with ...

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.

To meet this type of need, we developed a graphic library that easily produces high quality printouts using the PostScript (PS) language. Because UNIX/Linux graphic workstations are now widespread, it ...

PostScript is a device-independent printing language widely supported by printer manufacturers and primarily used for printing graphics-intensive jobs. PostScript drivers usually give you truer ...

PDF nearly didn't see the light of day as much of Adobe's management at the time didn't see any demand for it, and PostScript was still the dominant page description language in the graphic design ...