Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Don Lancaster Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: What's postscript's basic algorithm? Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:18:33 -0700 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <9hu2mnF77vU1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net GNH6/CA4xQgx87JgNCTFLQyrv10drsn4eSTMYfH+DSERFfCU1S Cancel-Lock: sha1:yk6bHX1qXlDKel6X3Fo4OJUd8Y8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.postscript:441 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 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 > -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster voice phone: (928)428-4073 Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 rss: http://www.tinaja.com/whtnu.xml email: don@tinaja.com Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com