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 ...

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, ...

Regarding the `` PostScript Type 1 font '' that was often used in DTP, it was found that support for the Mac version of Office 365 ended with the update on August 15, 2023. Support for Type1 fonts has ...

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 ...

In response to our previous report a conflict between with Suitcase, Microsoft Office applications, and PostScript fonts, Jim Royal confirms the behavior and offers this workaround. He writes: "I use ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a number of PC/Windows Postscript fonts. Each such font consists of two files, one with a ".pfm" extension and one with a ".pfb" extension (i.e., "Alexa.pfm" and "Alexa.pfb"). Some of these ...