On OS X, is there a good application to open PS files without converting them to PDF? In addition, I want to associate PS.GZ files to this application, but retain the TAR.GZ association to my uncompressor. Is this feasible?

I am trying to work out which fonts I have on my machine that are Type 1 Postscript fonts so I can avoid problems when Adobe stops supporting them next year. I have used kind:”type 1 outline font” which shows all of them but as I have so many fonts it might be quicker to identify those that are NOT Type 1 fonts! Can anyone help with the search string I should use please.

I can't see PostScript files with Safari. The files are loaded into the browser but the window remains gray. It looks like it opens the builtin PDF preview window but nothing happens. Right-click gives a familiar menu but clicking on Open in Preview does nothing. The controls that usually appear when I move the pointer to the bottom center of the window do not appear. If I download the PostScript file, then it opens fine in Preview. For sample PostScript files, see https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/ps/ps.html , but it happens with all other files I've tried. Is there a setting I'm missing? Or a fix? I'm running Safari 15.3 (15612.4.9.1.8, 15612) in macOS 10.15.7 (19H1323). It works fine in Safari 14.1.2 in macOS 10.15.7 and in Safari 13.1.2 in macOS 10.13.6.

I have a Ricoh Aficio MP 2000 printer. I have macOS Big Sur running on a Mac mini. It is possible to connect to the printer and print graphics, web pages, etc. But I have problems to print PDFs with embedded fonts. I always get Error: invalidfont. I tried the following drivers. - Generic Postscript Printer - Driver provided by Ricoh - Ricoh Printer Drivers v3.0 for macOS What else could I do?

In the pre-OS X days, there was an important distinction between [bitmap fonts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_font#/media/File:Original_Mac_fonts.png) and [PostScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript) fonts, and between QuickDraw printers (the Mac equivalent of "[Winprinters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Device_Interface#GDI_printers) ") and much more expensive PostScript printers. If you wanted to use a PostScript font with a PostScript printer, you needed to have installed on your computer the bitmap equivalent of one of the [standard preinstalled PostScript fonts](http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/general/printing/psfonts.html) . Later, it became more common to make sure that the PostScript font "suitcase" was in the right place to download to the printer at print time, and [use Adobe Type Manager to display it antialiased on the screen](http://www.fonts.com/support/faq/install-mac-fonts-os9-postscript) . In contrast, most fonts installed with OS X by default and available for purchase are either OpenType or TrueType format. Many inexpensive laser printers now speak PostScript level II or level III, and in consequence include an even larger assortment of built-in PS fonts than PS level I printers such as [the original LaserWriters](http://vintagemacmuseum.com/apple-laserwriter-ii-never-say-die/) . According to Adobe, [OpenType is a superset of the PostScript font format](http://www.adobe.com/products/type/opentype/opentype-faq.html) , and OpenType is supported by PostScript printers: >OpenType development has improved both the support of Type 1 on Windows and the support of TrueType in the PostScript environment, ensuring that customers who use PostScript printers will have the best possible experience regardless of the font type used. Support for OpenType is part of the PostScript printing system, with the support of the latest AdobePS™ printer drivers and Adobe Type Manager. Exactly what "support for OpenType" at the beginning of the second sentence means here is pretty unclear to me, though. If I want to use a PostScript printer with OS X, will it make a difference in printing speed or quality if I use a font on the computer that is (or is not) in the list of fonts on the printer? How does this work? * For example, if I print a TextEdit document in (OpenType) Helvetica to a networked LaserWriter, does OS X send PostScript code to the printer, which then uses its own built-in Helvetica font data in ROM to construct the glyphs on the page? * What if I use an OpenType font that's on the computer but not on the printer? Does the font get translated into a PostScript font then downloaded to the printer (presumably a slower process just like it was in the pre-OS X days), which then prints with it as if it were built-in? * Or in the previous case do the OpenType glyphs get rasterized on the OS X side and then sent to the printer as a bitmap? * In either case, how does this affect the quality of printed output? * Whether the OpenType font is downloaded as a PS font or as a bitmap, I'm guessing this would take a lot more memory on the printer side than just sending PostScript code. Should I worry about running out of printer memory (or at very least my document taking a _long_ time to print) just as in the pre-OS X days? * Is it still worthwhile to seek out a printer with a built-in hard drive to store downloaded fonts, if I'm going to be doing a lot of printing with fonts that aren't part of the native printer-resident set? * Are there printers that get around some or all of these problems by coming bundled with OpenType fonts as part of their firmware, or at least printing with OpenType fonts directly? This seems like the natural next step beyond inexpensive networkable printers with Postscript Level III support such as [this Okidata model](http://www.okidata.com/printers/monochrome/b4600) .

I am trying to use TimesNewRoman.ttf as the font for *.eps files generated by Gnuplot. I am running OS X 10.9.5 on a 2010 Macbook Pro. Here is my gnuplot script. set terminal postscript eps enhanced size 5,5 font 'TimesNewRoman.ttf,20' set output "./test.eps" plot sin(x) When I open this file with Preview, I get the error: > PostScript Conversion Warning > > Converting the PostScript file “test.eps” produced the following warnings: · TimesNewRoman.ttf not found, using Courier. TimesNewRoman.ttf is an exact copy of Times New Roman.ttf. Gnuplot has problems trying to find files with spaces in the file name. So I copied the /Library/Fonts/Times New Roman.ttf to /Library/Fonts/TimesNewRoman.ttf and ~/Library/Fonts/TimesNewRoman.ttf. I believe this trick worked when I was using OS X 10.6.8, but it appears not to work in Mavericks. How can I fix this?

Does anyone know of any setting that prevents Preview from even trying to open PS files on Catalina? The PS files are not corrupted, if I convert them to PDF with ps2pdf they open just fine, even in Preview

I am using the a2ps utility from Homebrew to pretty print code, generating .ps files, and then the Mac OS X utility pstopdf (used by Preview.app) to convert these to .pdf format. But whatever page size is specified in the PostScript, the generated PDF files have a Letter page size of 11 x 8.5 inches. For example

a2ps --medium=A4 -P file myfile.py

or

a2ps --medium=A3 -P file myfile.py

generate PostScript files with the correct page dimensions (A4 and A3 respectively) but when converted to PDF by pstopdf the resulting PDF is Letter size with the output truncated at the right/ bottom edge of the page. I can't find any mention anywhere of how to specify what default page size pstopdf uses. Opening the PostScript files in Preview.app uses pstopdf in the back end so I get the same result.

I am looking for a way to view PostScript files in iOS. It appears that there's no built-in mechanism in iOS for the same. Also, I'm unable to find any viewer app on the App Store. While Safari for macOS supports viewing it, iOS version doesn't appear to do so. Is there any app that renders postscript as opposed to showing the text file?

I wrote a postscript file including a blue (0,0,255) RGB and a yellow (255,255,0) RGB shapes. When viewed (in Preview) and according to the apple *DigitalColor meter* set to "native colours" mode, the colours are different: yellow becomes (252,255,54) blue becomes (43,0,251) To be sure the problem does not come from a bad postscript conversion, I used imagemagick to convert the postscript file into a raster image (png, tiff, gif,...). The so converted rasters show the same colour changes when viewed in Preview/Photo/finder. On the other hand, when imported in inkscape (i.e. X terminal), the colours of any of them are correctly displayed --- again, according to the DigitalColor meter. How come? Should I change the setting of the color display to get it right? How? Should I use another colour picker? Which one?

I'm having a problem with some documents printing on my Dell C2665dnf Color MFP on macOS 10.13.x and beyond (ie, including 10.14 Mojave betas). Sometimes a document only prints out: ERROR: invalidfont OFFENDING COMMAND: xshow STACK: [6.1116 13.4376 12.2276 13.4376 6.1116 12.2276 0.0 ] (!"#$%&') This appears to be a font issue from both the error and some searching . The example from Xerox for a Phaser 8560 & 7335: This clearly appears to be the same issue from the explanation and the answer is to set "PostScript Pass-through: Disabled" and enable "Download as Softfont" for TrueType Font and "Bitmap" for TrueType Font Download Option... But of course these options do not appear to be available on macOS. I've looked in both System Preferences -> Printers & Scanners AND in CUPS (Manage Printers & Edit Configuration File ) with no luck at finding such a setting yet for macOS. Any idea of how to make a similar setting change to force font downloading for PostScript printers in macOS?

Is there any way to make this printer work? A long time ago I made it work it on Ubuntu with PCL-6 driver (I'm not sure about the name), is there similar driver for Sierra? I already tried IPP with universal PostScript driver but it doesn't work. Here's nmap output which may be helpful: Mys-iMac:~ me$ nmap -v -A 192.168.1.36 Starting Nmap 7.50 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-07-02 18:52 MSK NSE: Loaded 144 scripts for scanning. NSE: Script Pre-scanning. Initiating NSE at 18:52 Completed NSE at 18:52, 0.00s elapsed Initiating NSE at 18:52 Completed NSE at 18:52, 0.00s elapsed Initiating Ping Scan at 18:52 Scanning 192.168.1.36 [2 ports] Completed Ping Scan at 18:52, 0.10s elapsed (1 total hosts) Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 18:52 Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 18:52, 0.18s elapsed Initiating Connect Scan at 18:52 Scanning 192.168.1.36 [1000 ports] Discovered open port 80/tcp on 192.168.1.36 Discovered open port 2323/tcp on 192.168.1.36 Discovered open port 9100/tcp on 192.168.1.36 Connect Scan Timing: About 47.27% done; ETC: 18:53 (0:00:35 remaining) Discovered open port 515/tcp on 192.168.1.36 Discovered open port 631/tcp on 192.168.1.36 Completed Connect Scan at 18:53, 65.74s elapsed (1000 total ports) Initiating Service scan at 18:53 Scanning 4 services on 192.168.1.36 Completed Service scan at 18:54, 90.20s elapsed (5 services on 1 host) NSE: Script scanning 192.168.1.36. Initiating NSE at 18:54 Completed NSE at 18:57, 126.78s elapsed Initiating NSE at 18:57 Completed NSE at 18:57, 8.34s elapsed Nmap scan report for 192.168.1.36 Host is up (2.3s latency). Not shown: 994 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 80/tcp open http? 515/tcp open printer? | fingerprint-strings: | TerminalServer: |_ Fictive printer queue short information 631/tcp open ipp? 2323/tcp open telnet | fingerprint-strings: | GenericLines: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> | 192.168.1.36#0> | 192.168.1.36#0> | GetRequest: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> GET / HTTP/1.0 | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'GET'. | 192.168.1.36#0> | 192.168.1.36#0> | Help: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> HELP | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'HELP'. | 192.168.1.36#0> | NULL: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> | RPCCheck: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> (r | [D|(r | SIPOptions: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> OPTIONS sip:nm SIP/2.0 | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'OPTIONS'. | 192.168.1.36#0> Via: SIP/2.0/TCP nm;branch=foo | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'Via:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> From: ;tag=root | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'From:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> To: | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'To:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> Call-ID: 50000 | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'Call-ID:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> CSeq: 42 OPTIONS | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'CSeq:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> Max-Forwards: 70 | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'Max-Forwards:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> Content-Length: 0 | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'Content-Length:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> Contact: | ipcom_shell : Unknown command: 'Contact:'. | 192.168.1.36#0> Accept: application/ | tn3270: | Copyright (c) Interpeak AB 2000-2005. All rights reserved. | Welcome to IPCOM SHELL. Type help for a list of commands. | 192.168.1.36#0> |_ IBM-3279-4-E 5002/tcp filtered rfe 9100/tcp open jetdirect? 2 services unrecognized despite returning data. 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Initiating NSE at 18:57 Completed NSE at 18:57, 0.00s elapsed Initiating NSE at 18:57 Completed NSE at 18:57, 0.00s elapsed Read data files from: /usr/local/bin/../share/nmap Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 292.69 seconds Printer dashboard:

I'm running the latest version of OS X and Preview is hanging whenever I try to start it. It attempts to open the documents which I previously had open, which is ~10 PDFs and ~3 PostScript files, and it seems to be permanently get stuck whilst "converting" those PostScript files (even though opening them was no issue before). Hence my question is, how do I start Preview without opening those documents? (I'm guessing there's some kind of cache I should delete.)

At my workplace, I am unable to find a printer driver for macOS which works with the printer. Instead, I'm printing through the web-interface of the printer, and I'm wondering if there's a way to automize this. **The steps I do manually that I want to automize (all or some):** 1. Save document as .ps (works better than .pdf for this printer) 2. Go to the web address and log in to the printer 3. Drag the file I want to the browser UI Writing a script to simulate the web login and transmission of the file is a separate problem which I think I can solve. **My question:** Can I use this custom script (probably Pyhton) as a "printer driver" to make it show up in the list of printers and enable me to print using *cmd-p*? It would have to automatically save as .ps and then do the webb stuff.

In my mac (running macOS Sierra 10.12.1) I use the default Preview to open the .ps files, including the .eps images generated by matlab or gnuplot. But my preview cannot show some characters or symbols in those kind of documents. For example, that's what I see on my screen, when I open a "ps" file: What's the most possible reason?

It can't print both sided as the duplex select on the print window is grayed. It works fine on Linux. How to tell the driver that the printer is an actual duplex printer? Thanks.

I have a Panasonic Workio 190 Printer . It doesn't seem like there is a Mac driver (I'm on Mavericks). The only thing there is, is a Adobe PostScript Driver : I've never come across this kind of driver before and I don't want to go and install the wrong thing. Is it saying that this driver would allow the printer to work with my Mac, and are there any disadvantages to using the Adobe PostScript Driver? It seems like the only option I have at the moment. Any input would be much appreciated as to whether this is the software I need.

I want to use an HP DesignJet 4000 (Not the PS version). I don't find the way to print on that device because it prints the actual postcript code instead of the image or text itself. Is there a way to send "raw" or bitmap file to the printer ?

Is there any way to convert .ps to .pdf every time automatically as a .ps is downloaded onto a Mac machine? (Using Mountain Lion 10.8) - can Automator perform this task? - convert and then delete the .ps It's annoying that it has to convert from .ps to .pdf in preview every time I open the file, and quick preview doesn't work on .ps.

I am running OS X 10.9.5 on a 2010 Macbook Pro. I have two eps files that I want to use Preview to view (Preview really converts the eps files to pdfs). One file is ~/Research/images/test.eps and the other file is ~/Desktop/test.eps. The first file displays sin(x), the second displays cos(x). If I open the first file, it shows the correct plot (i.e. sin(x)). Now if I open the second file (keeping the first open), the second plot correctly displays cos(x). However, the first instance of test.pdf automatically changes from sin(x) to cos(x). When I was using OS X 10.6.8, this never happened. This makes it very difficult to compare plots (with the same name). Is there a setting I can change or a way around this?