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Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript")

From Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript")
Date 2024-03-07 23:38 +0000
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On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:05:07 -0800, news wrote:

> (PostScript is useful for programs
> with and without graphics). I still think it is good, although some
> improvements could be made, which I mentioned in my message.

I mentioned some other improvements in mine.

> If you do not use the graphics API, how do you think would be
> improvement, if you want to use graphics, then?

Use something more modern, like Cairo. While that was clearly inspired by 
PostScript, it has gone beyond it to include features good for interactive 
graphics and Unicode-based text rendering, like operators, alpha channels 
and glyphs.

Cairo has been quite popular: the Web folks used Cairo as the basis for 
their “Canvas 2D” API, and even the C++ folks have been looking at 
incorporating some form of it as a standard graphics API for their run-
time library.

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Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-06 20:59 -0800
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 05:29 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-07 15:05 -0800
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 23:38 +0000
        Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-08 12:00 -0800
          Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-08 20:53 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") David Newall <ghostscript@davidnewall.com> - 2024-03-26 16:20 +1100
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-25 23:10 -0700
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-26 06:20 +0000
        Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2024-05-25 16:07 +0000
          Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-25 22:31 +0000
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 07:31 +0000
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-03-24 20:45 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") David Newall <ghostscript@davidnewall.com> - 2024-03-26 16:19 +1100

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