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.

A simple PostScript file running in GhostScript A PDF file has a similar structure with a %PDF-1.7 comment.

Seems like this will be as good of a forum as any for this.I've got a single page postscript document, and I want to take advantage of my schools printing policy and send it off to our central ...

The latest OS X 10.6.5 release has a bug in the printing system that will prevent postscript files from being printed in landscape view. This will affect many programs that handle postscript files ...

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.

If I create a PostScript file from the same Word document and run it through Adobe Acrobat Distiller 4 in Mac OS 9, the EPS file renders properly as a graphic rather than a blank placeholder.

When you use a PostScript printer on your Mac, you install a driver file that works with many printers that support the PostScript language, and combine it with a PPD that describes the ...

How to Create an EPS File With a Transparent Background. The Encapsulated PostScript file format is commonly used for vector images, but can contain raster elements as well. Using a pure vector ...

Apple has dropped support for PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files in macOS 13 Ventura. Most won’t notice, but here are some suggestions if you’re still using those formats.

So, all you have to do to protect your own PostScript files from being converted into PDFs is to insert this code into the PostScript after the %BeginSetup or the %EndProlog lines of the PostScript.