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 ...

Adobe has announced that they will end support for creating content with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Here's how you can prepare to make the shift to more widely supported formats. It's always ...

If you want to know about the history of desktop publishing, you need to know about Adobe's PostScript fonts. PostScript fonts used vector graphics so that they could look crisp and clear no matter ...

Details have been disclosed on a patched Adobe Type Manager Font Driver flaw that could enable takeover of a number of systems supporting modern font engines. A Google Project Zero researcher has ...

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 ...

In the early 1980s, my job in the graphics department at a newspaper meant spending a large part of my day typing words and control codes into a computer terminal to set type I’d use for headlines on ...

As competitors, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe are normally hard-pressed to agree with each other, and it’s especially rare when design is involved. But two weeks ago, these four frenemies signed ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) today announced the release of Source Han Sans, an open source typeface supporting Japanese, Chinese and Korean, as well as Latin, Greek and ...

Over on the Adobe Type Team Blog, Paul Hunt has penned an introduction to Source Sans Pro, a new type family he has designed specifically for use in Adobe’s open source applications. Over on the Adobe ...

Adobe Systems Inc. today announced that the company has converted more than 650 converted Adobe Type Library (ATL) fonts into OpenType format. The converted fonts will provide users with improved ...

The font offers full support for Japanese, Korean, and both Traditional and Simplified Chinese. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts ...

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