What is a .PS file?
PS is a PostScript document, a page-description language for printers. Created by Adobe.
- Did you know
- Adobe’s PostScript, launched in 1984, sparked the desktop-publishing revolution.
- PostScript is a full stack-based, Turing-complete programming language, not merely a static description of a page.
- It was created by Adobe co-founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, and its later offshoot the Camelot project became PDF.
- What Analyser reads
- Decode and preview extra still-image formats in pure JavaScript - Truevision TGA, QOI, Netpbm (PPM/PGM/PBM), PCX, farbfeld, WBMP, XBM/XPM, Sun Raster and SGI are fully rendered - and read header metadata from codec-heavy formats: Radiance HDR, DirectDraw Surface (DDS) game textures, OpenEXR, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, EPS/PostScript, Windows WMF/EMF metafiles, Apple ICNS icons, CUR/ANI cursors, MNG and Lottie animations.
- Depth of analysis
- .PS is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .PS file
- Drag a .PS file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.