Postscript is gone, long live TrueType and OpenType
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 appeared in 1984 it radically changed the way print and type were created and managed. Gone were the days of manually setting type on a printing press or hand-designing graphics on a designer’s easel.The Mac delivered WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) design and layout using (at the time) revolutionary software such as Aldus Pagemaker, and from Adobe Systems, Inc. Illustrator.
