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Up to PDF 1.4, released in 2001, everything you could do in a PDF file could be done in PostScript. But with PDF 1.4 there were some new things that PostScript didn’t have.
Is there a way to add a white background layer to PDFs en masse? See background below! Problem #1: My music teacher authored a few digital textbooks with (the now deprecated) iBooks Author, each ...
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.
Saying that Mac OS X is PDF-based means that the software that renders graphical components to the screen has a high degree of interconnect with the PDF imaging model.
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.
Configuration of most aspects of PostScript language file and PDF output is possible. However, the PDF import/export functionality in QuarkXpress 6.0 has the following known flaws: ...
Celebrating their 40th anniversary, Adobe released the source code of PostScript v0.10 to the Computer History Museum. But before you ask, we tried and it won’t compile with GCC out of the box ...
PostScript, the venerable page description language dating back to Macs in the '80s, has finally hit the end of the road in macOS Sonoma.
Updated: Microsoft is readying a new printing document specification and set of printer drivers code-named "Metro." Due to debut as part of Windows Longhorn, 'Metro' will allow users to share, print ...
His first product was Adobe PostScript, which sparked the desktop publishing revolution. PostScript profoundly disrupted the typesetting industry, as well as altered overall prepress and print ...
Remembering John Warnock, Co-Creator of PostScript and Acrobat Not everyone may remember the man's contributions to the printers of the desktop publishing era, but anyone using a PDF file today ...