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 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 ...

Ted Gordon writes: "Adding PostScript fonts to OS X can cause problems, especially with the Helvetica font as well as other fonts that also have a TrueType version already installed. Adobe is aware of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

PostScript font corruption Jamie McKee writes: There seems to be an issue with Mac OS X 10.1.2 (and probably earlier versions) whereby PostScript fonts get corrupted. See for example MacFixIt Forums ...

I need to buy a couple fonts for business purposes. I can get them in either Windows PostScript or Windows True Type. Which would I be more likely to get to display properly in Linux? I've heard ...