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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Starting with macOS Ventura, released this week, the built-in Preview app on Mac no longer supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files, according to a new Apple support ...

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

I've been given some files from a third party. They claim that these files are postscript files. The will print in Windows using the CLI 'print' command. They will not print to any postscript ...