21. Richard's EZ Postscript Richard s Quick guide to postscript programming. postscript programming Links. This document updated last 5 th March 2000 Richard s Home Page. http://www.rddvs.com/postscript.html

Richard's Quick guide to Postscript Programming This page is intended as a quick guide to introduce someone who is familiar with the basic principles of computer programming to the world of Postscript. What do you need A desire to learn the basics of Postscript A few minutes to spare A plain text editor A postscript viewer: You could use a postscript printer, but to increase speed and save on paper, a postscript viewer is best, look for either ROPS or Ghostscript Tutorial Postscript is a programming language optimised for printing graphics and text. Postscript was first introduced by Adobe in 1985 as a page description language. The main purpose of which was to provide a convenient language in which to describe images in a device independent manner. The language itself, which is usually interpreted, is stack based, in a similar manner to a RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator. A Program pushes the arguments to an operator onto a stack and then invokes the operator. Typically the operator will have some result which is left at the top of the stack. For example, the following Postscript code: 75 64 add pushes the number 75 onto the stack and then pushes the number 64 onto the stack. 'add' calls the add operator which pops the top two values off the stack, multiplies them, and pushes the result back onto the stack.

22. Holborn Books Online: Hands-On PostScript Programming CD-ROM Hands-On postscript programming CD-ROM....... Your Email Address Click here for more details. HandsOn postscript programming CD-ROM. by Dr Dobb S . http://www.holbornbooks.co.uk/details.aspx?sn=30538

23. CD-ROM Back CDROMs published by Günter Born. Hands on postscript programming This CD contains everything you need to get your hands on postscript programming http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Guenter_Born/cd-rom1.htm

Hands on PostScript Programming This CD contains everything you need to get your hands on PostScript programming: An online-book with a step-by-step introduction into the concepts of PostScript, including a reference of the PostScript language. Examples to show how to use different PostScript operators. A PostScript interpreter for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Mac and Unix All you need to become a PostScript expert is a computer and this CD. The CD-ROM is available from Dr. Dobb's Journal, a Miller Freeman subsidiary.

24. Postscript And Geometry Postscript is a full fledged programming language with loops and other good things. viewer. Guide to postscript programming. Bill http://merganser.math.gvsu.edu/david/psseminar/

Postscript and Geometry What is Poscript? Basic operations The coordinate transformation Homogeneous coordinates ... Resources What is Postscript? A programming language whose instructions, when read by a Postscript interpreter, produce graphical output. Typically, Postscript programs are written by other programs like Adobe Illustrator or dvips. These are never meant to be read by humans. This talk, however, is about Postscript programs written by humans. Postscript has two beautiful features: (1) everything (well, almost) is drawn to within the accuracy of the output device and (2) everything is easily scaled. Basic operations Computations are performed on a "stack" 3 4 -1.5 add mul 4 -1.5 add mul -1.5 add mul add mul mul Graphical operations Postscript's coordinate system Drawing lines 100 100 moveto 450 600 lineto stroke Drawing circles 300 300 100 360 arc stroke Filling circles 300 300 100 360 arc gsave 0.8 setgray fill grestore 10 setlinewidth stroke Drawing Bezier curves 200 200 moveto 100 500 500 300 400 550 curveto stroke Displaying text 100 100 moveto (g) show The coordinate transformation The initial coordinate transformation User space Device space Translations 200 300 translate User space Device space Rotations 200 300 translate 45 rotate User space Device space Scaling 200 300 translate 0.8 3 scale

25. Programmer's Oasis - PostScript What is Postscript? All about PostScript; postscript programming article, iftech.com. Simo Salminen - Copyright © 1996 Finland - http://users.utu.fi/sisasa/oasis/oasis-postscript.html

PostScript Internet PostScript Resources A First Guide to Postscript A First Guide to Postscript - European mirror What is Postscript? All about PostScript PostScript Programming - article, iftech.com Simo Salminen

26. IFS PostScript Program The Program. Warning I do not know how to program in postscript. So don t ask me any postscript programming questions. I found this http://www.marypat.org/stuff/mywords/ifstri.html

The Program Warning: I do not know how to program in postscript. So don't ask me any postscript programming questions. I found this program in a radio/electronics magazine in 1991 and have been tweaking it ever since 6000 for numdots works okay for me. The bigger you make numdots, more dots are put down. It's that simple. /numdots 6000 def Here are where the transform matrices go. Put in as many matrices as you like. The ones here are for our old friend the Sierpinski triangle. The first four numbers are from the "distortion" matrix, the next two are the translation vector. % /transforms[ [.5 .5 0] [.5 .5 4 0] [.5 .5 2 4] ] def % This is the probability vector: there are as many numbers in this as there are vectors in transforms. They should be postive and add up to 1. /probabilities [.33 .33 .34] def % 1 setlinecap setlinewidth 200 300 translate 30 dup scale doit showpage quit

27. Postscript.lap.hu Resources for POSTSCRIPT and GHOSTSCRIPT PostScript the language Guru’s Lair PostScript library directory postscript programming Links UserFriendly http://postscript.lap.hu/indexnojs.html

Együttmûködésben a www.startlap.hu oldallal postscript.lap.hu FAQ comp.lang.postscript comp.text comp.fonts comp.graphics ... szerver.lap.hu Konverterek Pstoedit - Program to translate PostScript and PDF files into other vector graphics formats. PStoText - Helper program for ghostscript to extract plain text from Postscript and PDF documents. PSUtils - Utilities for manipulating the way Postscript documents are printed. ConvertPS - A PERL script to transform a PDF file into an HTML file. Prescript - Free ASCII text extractor requiring ghostscript and Python. - free UNIX program for making a PostScript program into an HTML file. Interpreterek GhostScript - An interpreter for the PostScript language. The latest freely available (AFPL) release of ghostscript The latest GPL release is available GSview 4.03 beta release Delphi interface to Ghostscript ... Linux Intel [gz] SGI IRIX 6.x [gz] Sun Solaris 2.x [gz] HP HPUX [gz] IBM AIX 4.2+ [gz] Online Distiller Példák, leírások Some PostScript possibilities [pdf] Using Distiller as a General Purpose PostScript Computer Gonzo PostScript Utilities [ps] [ps] PostScript alpha transparency [pdf] Some Acrobat web page utilities Examples from the Blue book A First Guide to PostScript What is PostScript?

28. BookFinder.com: Display Postscript Programming Display postscript programming. by David A. Holzgang. ISBN 0201-51814-7 / 0201518147. Title Display postscript programming. Author David A. Holzgang. http://www.bookfinder.com/dir/i/Display_Postscript_Programming/0201518147/

Search About Interact Help Display Postscript Programming by David A. Holzgang ISBN: Title: Display Postscript Programming Author: David A. Holzgang Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated Edition: Softcover (This book is out of out of print, but copies may be available for sale. Click below to check.) Found a mistake in this data? Conditions of use Search About ... Contact us...

29. Planet PDF - Interview With Glenn Reid, The PostScript Thinker Q.1 Glenn, back in 1987, and 1990 you wrote two books that contributed greatly to the postscript programming world namely, Adobe s Green book and Thinking http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?MenuID=157&WebPageID=324

30. All About PostScript The book is in Acrobat PDF format, and covers beginner to intermediate postscript programming experience. Other resources on the web. http://www.quite.com/ps/

Home page Products Support News ... Contact You are here: Quite PostScript info PS info PostScript errors About EPS Making EPS ... DCS OPI etc This page will be a valuable resource telling people everything they need to know about PostScript, novice or expert. One day. For now, I have pillaged some useful links to conceal the fact that I haven't written much yet. The word PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems and their web page has information on that and their many other excellent products. Or, go straight to their PostScript page At the quite site PostScript errors It is hard to find out much about PostScript errors , so we've written something. It is aimed mostly at the non-programmer trying to print a file and getting PostScript errors. It includes details on what each PostScript error is likely to mean in a 'real world' problem. Encapsulated PostScript EPS in ten easy stages. Making EPS files. DCS, OPI and friends. Thinking in PostScript Thinking in PostScript is an important book about programming in PostScript. Now out of print, the author has made it available on http://www.rightbrain.com/

31. CD-ROM Back Hands on postscript programming. This CD contains everything you need to get your hands on postscript programming An online http://www.borncity.de/USBooks/cd-rom1.htm

Hands on PostScript Programming This CD contains everything you need to get your hands on PostScript programming: An online-book with a step-by-step introduction into the concepts of PostScript, including a reference of the PostScript language. Examples to show how to use different PostScript operators. A PostScript interpreter for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Mac and Unix All you need to become a PostScript expert is a computer and this CD. The CD-ROM is available from Dr. Dobb's Journal, a Miller Freeman subsidary.

32. PostScript Books: PostScript Language Program Design, Thinking In PostScript PostScript Language Program Design, 1987. It s a pretty hardcore book for those with serious postscript programming to do. Thinking in PostScript, 1990. http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/books.html

Books Glenn Reid, principal and founder of RightBrain Software, has written and published two books with Addison-Wesley, both on the PostScript Language. PostScript Language Program Design, 1987 The first of these books, PostScript Language Program Design , is Adobe's "green book", and is still in print after 16 years (and in fact has not even been revised in that time!). It's available at technical book stores everywhere. It's a pretty hard-core book for those with serious PostScript programming to do. Thinking in PostScript, 1990 The second book, Thinking in PostScript , did not have the power of Adobe's marketing behind it, and has been out of print since the first printing but is a valuable book nonetheless. It takes a completely different angle from all other PostScript books. The book is a result of Glenn Reid's years trying to teach people to write PostScript programs, during which he discovered that people tended to try to make PostScript "look like" other programming languages they already knew. There is even a chapter in this book entitled "PostScript Is Not Like C", because it is really a very different language, and one must learn to "think" in PostScript in order to be a good programmer. We're proud to offer the full text of the Thinking in PostScript book on-line as an Adobe Acrobat (pdf) file. At some point we make it available as HTML as well, but need to upgrade FrameMaker first.

33. References And Standards The PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook is a very nice and easy to read introduction to postscript programming, and has some very useful utilities. http://www.lprng.com/LPRng-Reference-Multipart/x291.htm

LPRng Reference Manual: 3 May 2004 (For LPRng-3.8.27) Prev Chapter 1. Introduction Next 1.10. References and Standards The following references and standards have been used in the development of the LPRng software. 1.10.1. RFCs During the early development of the Internet developers did not want to go through the laborious process of developing formal standards and applying to a standards body such as the EIA, IEEE, or ISO. Instead, they called the standards documents they developed [ Requests for Comments ]. These soon became de facto standards, and with the formal acceptance of the TCP/IP protocol as a network standard, de jure as well. You can get copies of the RFCs from literally hundreds of network sites, including http://www.isi.edu http://www.faqs.org/rfcs NIS.NSF.NET RFC.JVNC.NET , or FTP.ISI.EDU The [ RFC1179 - Line Printer Daemon Protocol ] describes the protocol used to transfer jobs from client program to print server. See for more a discussion of this protocol and more details about the RFC. The

34. Internet PostScript Resources This is a prototype page attempting to list all the resources on the Internet related to postscript programming and product development. http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~wigs/postscript/

Internet PostScript Resources The name " PostScript " is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. All instances of the name PostScript in this text are references to the PostScript language as defined by Adobe Systems Incorporated unless otherwise stated. This is a prototype page attempting to list all the resources on the Internet related to PostScript programming and product development. This page is currently a work in progress! Its format may change without warning, and any suggestions regarding format or contents are most welcome. Last Modified: Fri Aug 16 08:41:22 EST 1996 This page is maintained by Aaron 'Wigs' Wigley . Please send any comments/feedback/suggestions to him. Usenet Newsgroups There are several Usenet newsgroups of interest to PostScript programming: comp.lang.postscript comp.sources.postscript FAQ's comp.lang.postscript comp.text (from rtfm.mit.edu - may be busy). comp.text.tex comp.fonts comp.graphics Also, there is the Colour-Space FAQ for those looking for more information regarding HSB, RGB and CMYK colour spaces. comp.sys.mac.apps

35. FindingWeb Directory - /Computers/Programming/Languages/Postscript markets. Image compression inclu » Don Lancaster s PostScript Library Essays and examples on postscript programming. » EnFocus http://dir.findingweb.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Postscript

Directory Home Computers Programming Languages ... Postscript Postscript Do you need Postscript? You're in the right place... check it out the following sites and directory about Postscript, or search Postscript at FindingWeb Search. Sub-categories Data Formats@ See also: Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Interpreted Top/Computers/Software/Typesetting Links A First Guide to PostScript - A tutorial of the basics of the PostScript page description language. Includes examples ASN Developer Program - Adobe's developer support program. All about PostScript - Discussion about postscript error handling and general Postscript links. Apago - Develops software solutions for graphic arts and prepress markets, conversion tools for PostScript, PDF and raster workflows, custom applications for prepress, document management (COLD), large format and variable printing markets. Image compression inclu Don Lancaster's PostScript Library - Essays and examples on Postscript programming. EnFocus Software Home Page - PDF error checking program. Examples from the Blue book - Excerpts covering basic graphics, printing text, applications, and modifying and creating fonts.

36. Subject 1 General Questions Subject 1.1 What Is PostScript? PostScript is a page description programming language. If you know the postscript programming language, just use any text editor to edit the code directly. http://www.ira.cnr.it/manuals/Postscrip/chapter1

Subject: 1 General Questions Subject: 1.1 What is PostScript? PostScript is a page description programming language. It is perhaps the most versatile and loved language for printers, being used in printers world-wide. It is capable of drawing to computer screens and any kind of drawing device. PostScript is interpreted, stack based and has latent typing. It somewhat resembles the computer language FORTH. A number of programmers write PostScript programs directly for a variety of drawing applications. However, PostScript programs are usually documents meant to be printed that have been generated by a program written in some compiled language. Subject: 1.2 How can I tell how many pages my document will have? The easiest way to count pages is view your document on-line with a PostScript previewer. Some previewers like Ghostview and GSPreview count the pages for you. (See Section 12, ``PostScript Interpreters and Utilities''.) If your document is generated by a program compliant with the Document Structuring Conventions, you should be able to just count the number of ``%%Page:'' comments imbedded in the document. With UNIX you can type grep -c %%Page: document.ps to do this counting. (See Section 9, ``Encapsulated PostScript''.) The only completely reliable way to count pages is to ask the printer after the job is printed. PostScript printers maintain a page counter that can be queried before and and after the job is printed, and the page count is a simple subtraction. This tends to require rather sophisticated spooling systems and a communications channel that is bidirectional. However, some printers allow you to submit jobs on one port, and issue queries on another. Send this PostScript through a bidirectional I/O port and you'll get back the page count, nominally the total number of pages printed since manufacture: statusdict begin pagecount == end flush Experts using a level 2 printer can use the SerialOff.PS and SerialEHandlder.ps programs to communicate bidirectionally to the printer. Subject: 1.3 How can I print just one page or a few pages from a big document? How can I print pages in reverse order? Try using a host-specific program, like the UNIX command psrev, which is part of the TranScript suite of software from Adobe Systems. Or use the more general utilities Ghostview, psutils or psxlate. There is no guarantee that a given PostScript document can be split in such a manner. The reason is that some programs which generate PostScript code don't conform to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (DSC). (See Section 9, ``Encapsulated PostScript''.) A notable example of this is Microsoft Word. Subject: 1.4 How can I print more than one page per sheet of paper? Use psnup or pstext or enscript. These programs redefine the PostScript ``showpage'' command to do multiple PostScript pages per physical page. If one program doesn't work with a complex document, try out other ones. Some PostScript programs can't work with these programs because they break the EPS conventions (See Section 9, ``Encapsulated PostScript''.). The reason is that some Postscript operators (such as initgraphics, the list is in the Red book) change the printer state so "violently", that software trying to do things like n-up will get confused. Theoretically, an EPS shouldn't have any of these operators, but it may not really be an EPS, or there may be a weird interaction between TeX, the EPS and the inclusion mechanism that breaks psnup. Subject: 1.5 How can I edit a PostScript picture? If you know the PostScript programming language, just use any text editor to edit the code directly. If you want to do it visually, you can use Canvas on the Macintosh. Subject: 1.6 How can I print PostScript on a non-PostScript printer? You need a tool that converts to something that your printer knows how to print. Use Freedom of Press, GhostScript, pageview, TScript, or UltraScript PC. Or, use a printer cartridge if your printer manufacturer sells one. Subject: 1.7 What other graphics languages are there? HPGL is for pen plotters. PCL is for HP Laser printers (and compatibles). Both are by HP, and PCL5 is supposed to allow inclusion of HPGL commands, preceded by an appropriate escape code, however I have found this to give errors and abort even for simple HPGL code that plots fine on a plotter.

37. :: Ez2Find :: Postscript comp.lang.postscript.html; Don Lancaster s PostScript Library Site Info - Translate - Open New Window Essays and examples on postscript programming. http://ez2find.com/cgi-bin/directory/meta/search.pl/Computers/Programming/Langua

Guide : Postscript Global Metasearch Any Language English Afrikaans Arabic Bahasa Melayu Belarusian Bulgarian Catala Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Cymraeg Czech Dansk Deutsch Eesti Espanol Euskara Faroese Francais Frysk Galego Greek Hebrew Hrvatski Indonesia Islenska Italiano Japanese Korean Latvian Lietuviu Lingua Latina Magyar Netherlands Norsk Polska Portugues Romana Russian Shqip Slovensko Slovensky Srpski Suomi Svenska Thai Turkce Ukrainian Vietnamese Mode All Words Any Word Phrase Results Timeout Depth Adult Filter Add to Favorites Other Search Web News Newsgroups Images Guides Postscript ez2Find Home Directory Computers Programming ... Languages : Postscript Data Formats Related Categories Arts: Graphic Design: Typography Business: Publishing and Printing Business: Publishing and Printing: Prepress Computers: Data Formats: Document: Publishing: PDF ... Computers: Software: Word Processors: PDF Web Sites All about PostScript [Site Info] [Translate] [Open New Window] Discussion about postscript error handling and general Postscript links. URL: http://www.quite.com/ps/ Apago [Site Info] [Translate] [Open New Window] Develops software solutions for graphic arts and prepress markets, conversion tools for PostScript, PDF and raster workflows, custom applications for prepress, document management (COLD), large format and variable printing markets. Image compression including fractal, wavlet and JPEG 2000. Plug-ins for Acrobat, Quark and Photoshop.

38. How Do I Convert PostScript To EPS? Correct the PostScript program so that it works before you convert it to EPS format. Understanding postscript programming and the green book. http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node82.html

Next: How do I get Up: Encapsulated PostScript Previous: What are EPSI and How do I convert PostScript to EPS? Use pstoepsi , or do it by hand. GhostScript's program ps2epsi does this also, as does LaserWriter 8 for the Mac. GhostScript on the Mac can output EPS also, I believe. To convert from PostScript to EPS, one must guarantee that the PostScript file meets the above requirements. If the actual program conforms to the programming requirements, then one can simply add the required comments at the top of the file saying that the file is EPS and giving its BoundingBox dimensions. Optional comments include font usage (%%DocumentFonts: or %%DocumentNeededResources: font), EPSI preview comments (%%Begin(End)Preview:) extensions (%%Extensions:) and language level (%%LanguageLevel:). There are some operators that should not be used within an EPS file: banddevice cleardictstack copypage erasepage exitserver framedevice grestoreall initclip initgraphics initmatrix quit renderbands setglobal setpagedevice setshared startjob These also include operators from statusdict and userdict operators like legal, letter, a4, b5, etc.

39. Richard's PS Junk Page plugin. These samples from the BlueBook are a good source for postscript programming examples. Web Resources. Imation corporation http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cj434/

Sign the Guestbook View the Guestbook Best experienced with Click Here to start. The User-Friendly PostScript Resource Most people can figure out for themselves that printing is a multi-billion dollar industry. However, many people don't figure out that it is also a high technology industry until their first print job goes off track! This site is devoted to the study of PostScript , the language environment of almost all the output devices that commercial printers use. While this isn't strictly speaking another DTP or design site, it will certainly be of interest to those interested in desktop publishing, as PostScript is something you will be using an awful lot, whether it is to your own laser printer or to the local printer's kazillion dollar imagesetter. Rather than just collect a bunch of links, I have tried to add a little insight as to what you will find should you follow them. If you're wondering what the heck PostScript even is, click here before you proceed. In the News (and What's New!)

40. Font Formats The postscript programming language was originally developed by Adobe Systems to communicate complex graphic printing instructions to digital printers. http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/info9.html

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