Questions tagged [postscript]
PostScript is a Turing-complete page description programming language, designed and developed by Adobe. There are three major releases: PostScript Level 1, released in 1984. PostScript Level 2 (1991) contained several important improvements. PostScript 3 (1997) is the latest version.
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Label my cassette boxes
Historical Friday: this was my first useful C program, written around 1993-1994 (with only occasional access to a compiler and runtime environment). It's also my first non-trivial Postscript, too.
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An enhanced syntax for defining functions in PostScript
This file enhances PostScript with a few new syntactic niceties for defining functions with named arguments and even type-checking.
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Memoizing in PostScript
The pusherr and poperr procedures maintain an internal stack as a lisp-like
linked-list. It's a little slower than an earlier ...
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Document formatting markup engine in Postscript
I've been rewriting this same sort of thing off and on over the years, but finally here's the "perfected" monstrosity. Some kruft in the middle with attempting to predict the number of ...
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RFC PS Rasterizer Library API
We've got the basic functionality of using my postscript interpreter, xpost, as a library. I'd like to solicit some feedback from the community on the API setup. ...
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Manipulating matrices for 3D drawing
I've written a short library for manipulating matrices for 3D drawing. I've tried to strike a balance between speed and readability. Anything to improve?
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Concatenative PostScript library
As a part of picking up concatenative programming, I decided to implement the common concatenative operations in PostScript. Here is my attempt at implementing some of the words in other concatenative ...
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