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| Started by | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| First post | 2016-01-09 00:48 -0800 |
| Last post | 2016-06-02 03:06 -0700 |
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Welcome to comp.lang.postscript luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-09 00:48 -0800
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-01-12 21:10 +0100
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) - 2016-01-17 13:44 +0000
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-02-13 10:42 +0100
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-14 23:17 -0700
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-18 18:57 +0100
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-12 14:12 +0100
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-12 15:03 -0800
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-03-13 03:17 +0000
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-12 20:23 -0800
Re: Welcome to comp.lang.postscript Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-02 03:06 -0700
| From | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-01-09 00:48 -0800 |
| Subject | Welcome to comp.lang.postscript |
| Message-ID | <49968ddb-747f-482d-b50d-c53ee38fb9ec@googlegroups.com> |
We deal primarily with hacking in the postscript language, but occasionally branch into related topics like geometry, general programming, emulating other languages' features in ps, pdfmarks, etc. from the StackOverflow Postscript tag info page, http://stackoverflow.com/tags/postscript/info PostScript is a Turing-complete page description programming language, designed and developed by Adobe. There are three major releases of PostScript. 1. **PostScript Level 1** — this was released to the market in 1984 as the resident operating system of the Apple LaserWriter laser printer, inaugurating the Desktop Publishing Era. 2. **PostScript Level 2** — released in 1991, this contained several important improvements to Level 1, including support for image decompression, in-RIP separation, auto-growing dictionaries, garbage collection, Named Resources, binary encodings of the PostScript program stream itself. 3. **PostScript 3** — the latest and perhaps most widely adopted version was released in 1997. It too contains several import improvements over Level 2 such as Smooth Shading. The term “level” has been dropped. PostScript is typically used as a page description language, although it can also be used for other purposes. ###Online References * [PostScript Language Reference Manual, 3ed](http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/PLRM.pdf) - The PostScript 3 standard. (7.41MB pdf) * [PostScript Language Reference Manual, 2ed](http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/psrefman.pdf) - The PostScript Level 2 standard. (includes Display PostScript documentation.) (3.29MB pdf) * [Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook](http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF) - The blue book. (847KB pdf) * [Postscript Language Program Design](http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/GREENBK.PDF) - The green book. (911KB pdf) * [Thinking in Postscript](http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/localdoc/tips.pdf) - By the author of the green book and the blue-book's tutorial. (826KB pdf) * [PostScript Language Code Optimization: Rectangles](http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/sdk/5126.PS_Rect.pdf) - Optimization tips. (84.7KB pdf) * [Adobe PostScript SDK Archive](http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/ps/sdk/index_archive.html) - Sample code. Supplementary documents (like DSC and EPS). (html directory of pdfs and other files) * [Troubleshoot PostScript errors](http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-postscript-errors.html) - Debugging tips. (158KB html) * [Acumen Journal](http://www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html) - Archive of Postscript and PDF programming articles. (html directory of zipped pdfs) * [Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and Postscript](http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/) - by Bill Casselman. (html directory of pdf chapters and code downloads) * [Thread with many sorting algorithm implementations](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.postscript/p9gr6p-q3Gk/discussion) (usenet archive) * Don Lancaster's [Guru Pages](http://www.tinaja.com/) * Anastigmatix's [Direct use of the Postscript Language](http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html) * Open-source step-wise [Debugger for Postscript Code](https://github.com/luser-dr00g/debug.ps) ###FAQs * [Usenet FAQ (circa 1995)](ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/comp.lang.postscript/FAQ.txt) * [Wikibooks PostScript FAQ](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PostScript_FAQ) * [SO PostScript questions sorted by most-frequently viewed](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postscript?sort=frequent) ###Books * Postscript Language Reference Manual, 1ed, 1985. Recommended for its small size, and easy operator index from the summary pages (missing from later editions).
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| From | Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> |
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| Date | 2016-01-12 21:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <m2wpreftil.fsf@metalevel.at> |
| In reply to | #2420 |
Very nice job!
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| From | Bogus@Embarq.com (Steve) |
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| Date | 2016-01-17 13:44 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <c1.2b8.3pjyD1$05h@NOVOSAD3.EMBARQ.COM> |
| In reply to | #2422 |
Hi, Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> writes: > >Very nice job! Yes, quite interesting. Thanks, Steve N.
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| From | Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> |
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| Date | 2016-02-13 10:42 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <m2h9hdhrp8.fsf@metalevel.at> |
| In reply to | #2420 |
luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes: > We deal primarily with hacking in the postscript language, but In my view, "but" should be changed to "and" here. Very nice compilation of links! All the best, Markus
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| From | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-14 23:17 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <759a855f-0286-4e7a-b58d-c9d64255cbe1@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #2431 |
On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 3:42:30 AM UTC-6, Markus Triska wrote: > luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes: > > > We deal primarily with hacking in the postscript language, but > > In my view, "but" should be changed to "and" here. > I know you're eager to see your change, but rest assured it will be applied for July edition.
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| From | Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> |
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| Date | 2016-03-18 18:57 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <m2io0jis98.fsf@metalevel.at> |
| In reply to | #2457 |
luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes: > I know you're eager to see your change, but rest assured > it will be applied for July edition. I suppose you mean "*and* rest assured" ;-) Thank you! Markus
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| From | Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> |
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| Date | 2016-03-12 14:12 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <87y49nu9fq.fsf@hyperplane.at> |
| In reply to | #2420 |
luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes: > We deal primarily with hacking in the postscript language, but occasionally > branch into related topics like geometry, general programming, emulating > other languages' features in ps, pdfmarks, etc. What happened to the welcome message? I think this is a very nice collection of links and hope you continue posting it. All the best! Markus
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| From | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-12 15:03 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <a13cf205-ca9d-4dab-88f9-b57af071ce16@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #2453 |
On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7:12:32 AM UTC-6, Markus Triska wrote: > luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> writes: > > > We deal primarily with hacking in the postscript language, but occasionally > > branch into related topics like geometry, general programming, emulating > > other languages' features in ps, pdfmarks, etc. > > What happened to the welcome message? I think this is a very nice > collection of links and hope you continue posting it. > > All the best! > Markus Yes. We discussed this a little bit over a year ago. The plan is to re-post this every 6 months, on or around Jan 1 and July 1. Any updates or new links can be added directly to the Stackoverflow tag info page, and I'll use that as the template for the message.
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| From | JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-13 03:17 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <nc2m3c$a5o$1@reader1.panix.com> |
| In reply to | #2454 |
luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7:12:32 AM UTC-6, Markus Triska wrote: >> What happened to the welcome message? > > The plan is to re-post this every 6 months, > Any updates or new links can be added > directly to the Stackoverflow tag info page, That's this, http://stackoverflow.com/tags/postscript/info right??? (And ditto to Triska's snipped remark: very nice! Thanks.) -- John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )
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| From | luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-03-12 20:23 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <9e7367f2-f8a5-47b0-8412-f503586f28fa@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #2455 |
On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 9:17:00 PM UTC-6, JohnF wrote: > luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> wrote: > > On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7:12:32 AM UTC-6, Markus Triska wrote: > >> What happened to the welcome message? > > > > The plan is to re-post this every 6 months, > > Any updates or new links can be added > > directly to the Stackoverflow tag info page, > > That's this, > http://stackoverflow.com/tags/postscript/info > right??? Yes, exactly! Edits can be applied by all SO users and even by anonymous users (passing through a review process, of course). Incidentally, SO needs more postscript programming questions. Ken and I have a bit of a race going for number of answers. But he covers nearly all of the ghostscript questions incidentally tagged postscript. With more postscript language questions, I could conceivably get the silver badge before Ken. In reality, he's totally going to beat me. > (And ditto to Triska's snipped remark: very nice! Thanks.) As stated above, you're quite welcome!
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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2016-06-02 03:06 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <f8063586-29ca-42c7-8751-d5b5bf96d0be@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #2420 |
On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 9:48:45 PM UTC+13, luser- -droog wrote: > ###Online References > [long handy list omitted] Should also mention the Type 1 Font Format book <https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.PDF>?
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