PS

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.

.ps (1)

What is ps file?

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 Portable Document Format (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

How to open ps file?

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.

How to convert ps file?

A lot of programs support the export to PostScript for the purpose of printing.

Suggested software to open ps file:

Adobe Illustrator

Ghostscript

Associated software actions with the ps file

.ps (2)