Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm?

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On 8/25/2011 2:37 AM, NoHtmlMailsPlease wrote:
> Is the rendering of 'text' which originates from `pdftops` written
> one char at a time, or is it rendered one-row-of-pixel at a time
> or what?
>
> If the syntax is forth-like, does it also multilevel compose
> compound <views/pictures> from a set/library of primitives/glyphs?
>
> == TIA
>


Depends entirely on the algorithm chosen.

Some text coding sets character at a time, some word at a time, and some 
full lines at a time.

Much more at < http://www.tinaja.com/pssamp1.asp >

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What's postscript's basic algorithm? "NoHtmlMailsPlease" <UsePlainText@dog.edu> - 2011-08-25 11:37 +0200
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  Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? Don Lancaster <don@tinaja.com> - 2011-11-08 18:18 -0700

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