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Adobe PostScript document
File type: Document file
Files with ps extension can be commonly found as to-be-printed final versions of documents and other publications saved in Adobe PostScript language for PostScript printers.
Found 3 different file type records with the same ps filename suffix.
File type category:
Document file
Date updated: July 14, 2025
File extension ps is typically associated with Adobe PostScript, a dynamically typed concatenative programming language, best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. Once the de facto standard for electronic distribution of final documents meant for publication, PostScript is steadily being supplanted in this area by one of its own descendants, the pdf.
You may occasionally encounter files containing a stream of PostScript data. These files may typically be sent directly to a PostScript compatible Printer for printing.
More commonly, you may encounter Encapsulated PostScript files (eps) which typically contain a section of a page or an individual graphic.
MIME types for ps files:
application/postscript
application/ps
application/x-postscript
application/x-ps
text/postscript
application/x-postscript-not-eps
Postscript is a text print description language used for final documents meant for prining. Nowadays used mainly by Adobe applications, such as Photoshop or Illustrator which can both open and print them.
A lot of programs support the export to PostScript for the purpose of printing.
Software applications that can open ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software applications that can edit ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software capable of saving ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Programs for viewing ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software apps that create ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that convert ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
On-line services
Software apps that import ps files:
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software apps that export ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
Multiplatform
On-line services
Software apps that print ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Multiplatform
Software applications that handle other tasks involving ps files:
Multiplatform
Adobe has not upgraded their old Postscript drivers since Windows XP. This makes it troublesome for...
File type category:
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
The ps file extension is related to MPEG program stream format, a data container used to multiplexing digital audio, video and other data.
Multimedia data in MPEG program stream are stored in MPEG-1, MPEG-2 video, MPEG-1audio (MP3, MP2, MP1) or MPEG-2 audio.
Rarely, It can also contain MPEG-4 video and AAC audio.
The MPEG program stream format is recommended for disk recorders.
MIME types:
video/MP2P
video/MP1S
Use VLC Player to playback *.ps files.
Probably can be exported to other formats.
Apps designed for playing ps files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Linux/Unix
File type category:
Audio and sound file
Date updated: April 11, 2017
Record marked as obsolete and not updated for a long time.
File extension ps is also associated with the Paul Shields song/module file format used by some audio composing software also known as trackers for Amiga computers developed by Commodore.
Some old programs for emulation of Amiga computers may have a program that can playback old .ps audio files, but that's about it.
We do not know about any way how to convert ps audio files to other formats, although theoretically it should be possible.
Apps designed for playing ps files:
Microsoft Windows
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