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Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript

From Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript
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Date 2016-10-01 22:16 +0200

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Alan <alan.isaac@gmail.com> writes:

> Saying PDF superseded PS is just plain wrong in a thread about
> drawing. It would be true if we were talking about document exchange
> formats. But essentially nobody will try to draw by hand in PDF. Many
> people find this fun and worthwhile in PS.

I wholeheartedly agree with this, thank you for putting it so clearly
and succinctly. In fact, I would remove "in a thread about drawing".

I use PostScript a lot for various visualizations. Python and the other
mentioned alternatives are completely out of the question for this, not
only because doing it would be more verbose and less convenient, but
also because people who need the result (i.e., actually see or print the
drawing) may not have Python or other interpreters installed, and my not
be in a position to do so.

PostScript, on the other hand, lets me conveniently express these
visualizations and print them even in very locked-down environments.

Another use case, real-time visualizations of search processes, is
simply not possible in PDF or XML (how can an XML file read from
standard input?), and is also conveniently expressed with PostScript.

Here are a few examples of this:

   https://www.metalevel.at/postscript/animations.html

> But PS has the edge whenever some programming can help with the
> drawing process.

Definitely. Thank you for taking the time to state this so clearly.

All the best,
Markus

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A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Dylan McNamee <dylan.mcnamee@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 15:29 -0700
  Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 15:54 -0700
  Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 03:11 -0700
    Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Dylan McNamee <dylan.mcnamee@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 07:54 -0700
      Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-09-14 13:55 -0700
        Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-09-15 01:06 -0700
          Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-09-15 14:46 -0700
            Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 16:04 -0700
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        Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2016-09-20 22:24 +0000
          Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-09-21 13:36 -0600
            Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-09-21 16:27 -0700
  Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Alan <alan.isaac@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 18:57 -0700
    Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 20:04 -0700
      Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 13:45 -0700
        Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 04:29 -0700
          Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 10:41 -0700
            Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 14:49 -0700
              Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 21:52 -0700
    Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-10-01 22:16 +0200
      Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 13:30 -0700
      Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 16:07 -0700
        Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-10-03 02:03 +0200
          Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 19:47 -0700
          Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 02:00 -0700
            Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-10-04 10:10 +0100
              Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Dylan McNamee <dylan.mcnamee@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 08:00 -0700
              Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 13:57 -0700
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2016-10-05 09:31 +0100
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 06:37 -0700
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2016-10-05 16:10 +0100
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 13:37 -0700
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 18:13 -0700
            Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-10-05 22:44 +0200
              Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-05 18:12 -0700
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-10-08 10:24 +0200
                Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-10-08 11:21 -0700

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