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| | PostScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Prior to the introduction of PostScript, printers were designed to print character output given the text—typically in ASCII—as input. | | | The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 when John Warnock was working at Evans and Sutherland, a famous computer graphics company. | | | It prints PostScript documents on non-PostScript printers using the CPU of the host computer to do the rasterization, sending the result as a single large bitmap to the printer. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
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| | Display PostScript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While early versions of Postscript display systems were developed at Adobe, the full implementation of Display PostScript was developed in cooperation with Adobe Systems, and made an official Adobe product with its own standards documents and licensing requirements. | | | NeXT Computer Inc. designed Display PostScript (or DPS) as a display system for their series of Unix-based personal computers starting around 1987. | | | DPS included modes to allow semi-realtime display as the instructions were received from the user programs. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
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| | DISPLAY POSTSCRIPT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE The Display PostScript system is part of the X Window System and is implemented as an X extension. | | | PostScript Language Program Design Guidelines for the advanced developer to use in designing and debugging PostScript language programs. | | | Client Library Supplement for X Describes Display PostScript features that are specific to the X Window System, such as context creation and addi- tional error codes. |
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http://www.sins.com.au/unix/manpages/dps.html
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| | PostScript Level 2 contains a number of performance enhancements, is easier for software developers to use, and contains important new functionality such as device-independent color, forms handling and patterns support. | | | It includes extensions to deal specifically with displays and windowing systems as well as many optimized operators to increase performance which is critical in an interactive display environment. | | | PostScript Level 2 is one component of a total systems solution being assembled by Adobe: + Adobe is developing drivers for the Macintosh, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 Presentation Manager environments. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/programming/FORMATS/level2.inf
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| | Developing Applications for the Display PostScript System |
| | In XDPS, PostScript language code can be sent to a context in three encodings: as a binary object sequence, as binary-encoded tokens, or as ASCII text. | | | As a result, to paint on an X display, a PostScript context must first find whether there is a pixel value that matches the pure color or shade specified by the PostScript language. | | | That is, it is possible for X and the Display PostScript system to become unsynchronized. |
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http://www.pdc.kth.se/doc/osf/osf40/HTML/AQ15WBTE/DOCU_005.HTM
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| | Display PostScript NX X Resources The following X resources are used to coordinate the Adobe ShowPS application with the Display PostScript NX software. | | | In that case, the previewer displays an error message if you try to load a file that requires unavailable fonts and the X server does not provide font substitution. | | | The default value is 8200, which allows for the common case where the header size is 8192 bytes. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/ac/unix/tools/docs/showps.html
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| | Richard's PS Junk Page |
| | PostScript programs to calculate PI to a thousand digits and randomly generate (winning?) numbers of the German Lotto 6 out of 49 are two of the goodies you'll find at Frank Siegert's download page. | | | This site is devoted to the study of PostScript, the language environment of almost all the output devices that commercial printers use. | | | Mayura Draw is a freeware PostScript drawing program for Windows, that working in conjunction with Ghostscript, allows you to edit PostScript files (it takes advantage of Ghostscript's ai2ps.ps PS script that converts PostScript into Adobe Illustrator 88 files). |
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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cj434
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| | dpsexec(1): PostScript Executive - Linux man page |
| | In this mode, the PostScript interpreter supports certain line-editing functions and prompts the user when it is ready to execute more input. | | | uses backing store for the window in which graphics are displayed, if possible. | | | By default, dpsexec executes the PostScript executive operator before it accepts any user input. |
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http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/dpsexec.1.html
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| | Printing PostScript documents |
| | Many Unix computers have the program ``ghostview'', which will actually display a PostScript file on the computer monitor provided you are in X Window System or some X emulator. | | | Unless the computer has a program called "ghostview", it cannot display the PostScript file, so you must view the PNG version (if provided). | | | However, PostScript is generally made for printing anyway, and there is probably a way you can get a high-quality printout from your computer, if there is a good laser printer nearby. |
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http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/postscript/printing.html
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| | Introduction to GNU Ghostscript |
| | Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language. | | | Display a PostScript file to decide if you really need to print it (reduce the number of trees killed). | | | Display a PostScript or PDF file (avoid killing trees). |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/intro.html
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| | ASK ANDY--RESOLUTION AND LINE SCREEN TIPS AND TRICKS |
| | As Display PostScript has the potential to reduce the need for a PostScript printer, as the PostScript code could be 'rendered' on the computer, then sent to the printer in a standard 'bitmap' or raster form, Adobe may want to impose a limitation on the output quality to non-PostScript (and therefore non-licensed) printers. | | | Any device that uses PostScript has to be licensed from Adobe, so if Apple wanted to use Display PostScript they'd have to pay Adobe a fee for every OS or computer sold. | | | When a EPS is exported from, say a drawing package, you don't actually see the PostScript itself, as this is a ASCII or binary 'listing' (looks like a computer program listing), and this creates the final printed image. |
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http://www.vom.com/svcg/andy297.htm
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| | PostScript utilities |
| | Freeware program by Dominik Carsten and Karl Holger for computing and fixing the BoundingBox in a Postscript program. | | | Hence the process of generating a printed barcode representing a given input is performed entirely within the printer (or print system) where it is no longer the responsibility of your application or a library. | | | Also included is a program to make font samples, and programs to handle the conversion of font data to PostScript binary (.pfb) and ASCII (.pfa) formats. |
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http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/PSutilities.html
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| | Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : P |
| | PostScript The page description language developed by Adobe Systems Inc. PostScript is one of the breakthrough triumphs of modern computer technology, taking its place alongside timesharing, solid-state memory, disk storage, microtechnology, virtual memory, multitasking, and graphical user interfaces. | | | PostScript inherently allows scalability in many processes under its control, such as the resolution with which to display and print graphics, the byte-depth of stored character data, and how information data is managed between computer systems and input/output processes. | | | PostScript font A font format which is designed to work directly with PostScript. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/profirst/p.htm
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| | TrueType & PostScript Type 1: What's the Difference? |
| | Scaling PostScript fonts on current versions of the Mac or Windows essentially requires the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) software, which handles the rasterizing to the screen, and rasterizes or converts the fonts for non-PostScript printers. | | | PostScript backers point to a number of problems that still make PostScript fonts a better solution for many users. | | | Although the command structure of the PostScript language was publicly available, and it was possible for someone to build a PostScript interpreter to compete with Adobe’s rasterizing software, it wouldn’t be able to interpret the hints. |
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http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/Features/T1vsTTa.html
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| | High-Tech Dictionary Definition |
| | A version of PostScript used to display files on screen.The NeXT computer uses Display PostScript. |
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http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/definition.html?lookup=1449
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| | PS Programming |
| | PostScript has been called "an unappreciated yet superb general purpose computing language". | | | To run a program, all you need is a PostScript interpreter such as Ghostscript. | | | An introduction to using PostScript to display and format text, including columns, line-wrap, justification, footnotes, and fonts. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5682/Programming.html
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| | comp.text Frequently Asked Questions |
| | Transcript is an alternative for PostScript output (but doesn't allow you to mount fonts, no drawing support). | | | Procedural markup tells the software what to do (space down, invoke a macro); generic markup describes the thing to be printed (heading, cross-reference, etc.) Troff and TeX are examples of procedural markups; ODA and SGML prescribe rules for generic languages; and good macro packages for troff or TeX make them, more-or-less, generic markup languages. | | | Without PostScript, every text formatter has to understand the idiosyncrasies of every vendor's hardware. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/text-faq
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| | Developing Applications for the Display PostScript System |
| | The NULL argument causes * XOpenDisplay to open a connection to the display specified * by the DISPLAY variable of the user's environment. | | | /* * examplewraps.psw -- source file for wrapped PostScript * language procedure * * This is an example of PostScript language code to be converted * to Client Library calls by pswrap. | | | Table 3-2 lists common XDPS programming tasks, shows the operators (in bold type), and Client Library routines for performing each task. |
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http://www.pdc.kth.se/doc/osf/osf40/HTML/AQ15WBTE/DOCU_004.HTM
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| | X Development Tools |
| | Work is ongoing on "Display Ghostscript," a freely available version of this. | | | An OpenGL backend is in progress, and PDF file output is planned. | | | It might be such, if the availability of the DGS implementation could make DPS as ubiquitous as GDI... |
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http://cbbrowne.com/info/xlibs.html
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| | Display |
| | designed Display PostScript (or DPS) as a display system for their series of Unix-based personal computers starting around 1987. | | | The software for the Alliance Display Wall-in-a-Box is compatible with the Alliance Cluster-in-a-Box software. | | | Supplying cathode ray tubes, grayscale monitors, video signal generators, touchscreens, integrated display solutions, computer workstations, plasma and LCD |
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http://display.link6.com
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| | Postscript - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Postscript is a programming language that describes the appearance of a printed page. | | | Users can convert Postscript files to the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) using the Adobe Acrobat product. | | | All major printer manufacturers make printers that contain or can be loaded with Postscript software, which also runs on all major operating system platforms. |
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http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci212814,00.html
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| | Guru's Lair: PostScript library directory |
| | PostScript utility to generate all possible binary words of length | | | In typical use, a PostScript program is created using Wordpad or a | | | PostScript program that writes its own PostScript programs! |
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http://www.tinaja.com/post01.asp
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| | About Portable Document Format (PDF) |
| | PostScript is computer language -- or more accurately a page description language -- that is run in an interpreter to generate an image. | | | The graphics commands that the PS code outputs are collected and tokenized, any files, graphics or fonts the document references are also collected, and then everything is compressed into a single file. | | | Often the PostScript-like PDF code is generated from a source PostScript file. |
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http://www.ebook2u.com/articles/portal-document-format-pdf.shtml
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| | Dogpile - Web Search: PostScript |
| | PostScript is a programming language optimized for printing graphics and text (whether on paper, film, or CRT is immaterial). | | | PostScript Printer Driver AdobePS 4.2.6 for Windows 95 and Windows 98... | | | PostScript 3 printing technology is licensed to original equipment... |
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http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/PostScript
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| | [Magick-bugs] postscript problems (display and convert) |
| | You get the same problem simply doing "display odd-even.ps".It is fixed for display by doing "display -page a4 odd-even.ps" so it seems like a simple bug. | | | It seems that convert/display is buggy when converting from postscript. | | | I have a.ps file that views perfectly in gv 3.5.8. |
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http://www.imagemagick.org/pipermail/magick-bugs/2003-February/001098.html
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| | ASCII - definition of ASCII in Encyclopedia |
| | In the table above, the fifth column contains glyphs reserved for representing control codes in a data stream, ie, when they must be printed or displayed rather than (or in addition to) causing action; your browser, (i.e., your HTML user agent) may require the installation of additional fonts in order to display them. | | | The sixth column shows the key combinations traditionally used to input control characters from a keyboard. | | | That requires other standards, such as those specifying markup languages. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/ASCII
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| | Display PostScript for the Macintosh? |
| | Fortunately for would be Rhapsody developers (Rhapsody is the code name for the forthcoming NexT based version of the Macintosh System software,) NexT went to a great deal of trouble to document how their operating system worked. | | | For those of you wanting to program for the new display system, here are links to NexT's documentation regarding their implementation of Display PostScript. | | | PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems. |
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http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~cj434/dps.html
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| | Support - eXodus - DPS display postscript font support |
| | eXodus does not support the DPS Extension (Display PostScript) or other nonstandard X Extensions. | | | However, in the case of DPS, a workaround for this limitation is to purchase a particular Sun application that translates DPS requests to X protocol requests. It is called "Display PostScript NX" and is developed by Adobe Systems, but distributed by Bluestone. | | | Support - eXodus - DPS display postscript font support |
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http://www.powerlan-usa.com/support/exodus/faq/exodusfaq053.html
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| | Books on PostScript |
| | This is the definitive description of the PostScript language. | | | The books are often referred to by their colour, rather than the official title. | | | The previous edition might still be available in book stores: |
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| | Cover Pages: Use of Registered Trademarks, Trademarks, and Service Marks |
| | Much like copyright claim, which likewise does not need to be explicitly displayed using a © symbol, trademarks need not be routinely identified as such in qualified fair use contexts — if the legal commentary has been properly understood. | | | In other words: in a world of readers where names of companies, products (tangible or intangible), and services are presumed to be legally trademarked, few documents need to be littered with ®, ™, and (SM). | | | Citation of these trademarks implies no endorsement or approval of any kind, as the marks are here duplicated for display without the consent of the owners. |
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http://xml.coverpages.org/trademarks.html
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