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

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> > 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.

There does seem some features of PostScript not implemented in Cairo, such
as separations, and CMYK, and some other features. (As far as I can tell,
the only colours implemented in Cairo are RGBA.)

(I also wanted compatibility with most existing PostScript graphics code,
including non-Unicode text; but also to add some new features such as alpha
transparency, combining modes, etc. Some of these things could be done in
ways similar than Cairo e.g. adding the operators like Cairo has.)

(So, I think that enhancing the existing PostScript graphics API would be
superior than using Cairo, in my opinion.)

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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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