| PostScript(TM) is a programming language for displayable documents from
Adobe Systems (http://www.adobe.com). The language is postfix, like Forth
or an HP calculator (people sometimes call it reverse-polish). To add 1 and
2 you do:
1 2 add
which pushes 1 and then 2 on the stack and then executes add, which pops the
top two values from the stack and adds them together.
Normally, PostScript files are ASCII text - there are binary forms, but
those are not portable. The text versions, if they adhere to a proper
version of PostScript, will work on any adhering printer; this is what made
PostScript a defacto standard - you could output a PostScript document to a
file and print it on any PostScript printer. Probably more than you wanted
to know about PostScript, the language, but I used to teach a beginning
course in PostScript programming so....
Tools.... The most popular and common tool is GhostScript, which provides
rendering of PostScript for viewing. This is ported to the PC/Windows
platform. Don't know where to find it right now, but a good Yahoo or Lycos
search will find it somewhere.
A very popular extension to PostScript is Adobe Acrobat format, with the
file extension .pdh. Another popular extension is Display PostScript, which
provides extensions for writing GUI programs in PostScript (Sun used this
for a time for their GUI of choice on SunOS for their UNIX variant).
Hope all that helps. Have fun! - Bob
--
"I did not ask for the anal probe" -- Passion Fish
"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end." - King
Crimson
Bob Hays | Aviva Kramer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-csound-outgoing@noether.ex.ac.uk
> [mailto:owner-csound-outgoing@noether.ex.ac.uk]On Behalf Of David
> Schuyeteneer
> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 1998 12:48 PM
> To: Csound List
> Subject: [?] How to read Postscript philez
>
>
> Yo people ! I downloaded some great (i think so, at least) technical
> documents
> about MP3 stuff.....But the files are in PS format....How can I read those
> ??
> Which program is used to read them ?? What is PS anyway ??
>
> later,
> David
>
>
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