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 ...

Microsoft revealed that Adobe Type1 font support in Windows is now deprecated. It will soon be removed from future Windows releases, and the company recommends users remove them now. After deprecating ...

In brief: Microsoft has updated the list of Windows features that are no longer being developed and likely to be removed from future editions of the OS. The August 2024 revision added Adobe Type1 ...

PostScript Type 1 fonts work fine on OS X. Minion also comes as a MultiMaster, which is not supported under X. I'm not sitting in front of my design box right now, but I'm almost positive Minion ...

FontGear has released FontXChange for Macintosh 2.5. FontXChange, an application that converts fonts between common font formats, can convert fonts to OpenType, Web Fonts, PostScript Type 1, and ...

Question: How do I add fonts to my computer and are they cross-compatible between Windows and Mac? Answer: Installing new fonts can give your digital projects a whole new personality, whether you’re ...

groff wouldn't be as much fun if we were stuck with just the few fonts that are part of the standard package. Fortunately, if you are using a PostScript device, groff makes it simple to install any ...

I am using a Windows XP system with a variety of Hewlett-Packard laser printers. Some of these are mid-range workgroup printers which support both PCL 6 and PostScript 2, and some are PCL-only. It ...

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 ...