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Discussion on error handling, general PostScript links.
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All about PostScript This page will be a valuable resource telling people everything they need to know about PostScript, novice or expert. One day. For now, I have pillaged some useful links to conceal the fact that I haven't written much yet. The...Free for non-commercial use programs to render PostScript documents, links to related utilities.
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Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview Software available at this site AFPL Ghostscript current stable release Obtaining AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 GPL Ghostscript GPL Ghostscript 8.15 released 2004-09-23 GNU Ghostscript 7.07 released 2003-05-17 AFPL Ghostscript developer and beta filesets Ghostview and GV previewers for Unix VMS MacGSView...PDF error checking program.
http://www.enfocus.com/
Filter to convert many file types to PostScript.
http://www.inf.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/
PostScript to vector and bitmap conversion utilities.
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Visual Integrity and Square One Solutions Repurpose your visual content Generate industry standard vector, bitmap and text formats from existing content, legacy information and real-time graphics, forms and reports. This powerful technology is used worldwide by end-users, developers and in automated batch processes. Enter here to...Front end for ghostscript to display PostScript and PDF documents.
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gv, a PostScript and PDF previewer Suggestions and bug reports Acknowledgements Description gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. The current version is 3.5.8 (June 21 1997) Please note...Short programming examples.
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PostScript Quick Tips Another useful reference is the PostScript Frequently Asked Questions from the Usenet comp.lang.postscript newsgroup. Creating a Mirror Image Font Have you ever needed a mirror image of a symbol from the Zapf Dingbats font? Perhaps you've needed a hand or...Directory PostScript related links. Usenet Newsgroups, FAQ's, code examples, utilities, FTPs, links.
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~wigs/postscript/
Glenn Reid's book, generously made available in PDF format.
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PostScript Books: PostScript Language Program Design, Thinking In PostScript It takes a completely different angle from all other PostScript books. The book is a result of Glenn Reid's years trying to teach people to write PostScript programs, during which he discovered that people tended to try to make PostScript...Rapport is a PostScript technology developer based in the UK and the creator of InkWell - A high performance PostScript compatible interpreter and Software Development Kit for OEMs. Add PostScript capability to any system: printers, servers, controllers and applications.
http://www.rapport.ltd.uk/frameset.html
Licenses PostScript software to OEMs, makes end-user products, since 1980s, mainly for publishing and Macintosh markets, but recently offering Linux based server technology.
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YARC SYSTEMS Color PostScript RIP Servers for Encad NovaJets. Epson Stylus Pro 9000,7000,5000,3000, Canon CLC, HP DesignJets, Roland, and Xerox software Servers that use the power of LINUX to give direct connectivity to the Internet, but are equally easy to use with traditional Windows or Appletalk networks. We also have Software RIPs for MacOS. Download the Basic Concepts manual for YARC's...Benchmark for PostScript printers.
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PostScript Processing Speed Test ...Adobe's developer support program.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/
An interpreter for the PostScript language.
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ghostscript.com C are pleased to announce the release of AFPL Ghostscript 8.53. This is a maintenance release in the stable 8.5x series. The main features included in 8.53 are Numerous bug fixes and improvements, particularly in the area DeviceN (spot color)...A graphical interface for Ghostscript, to display postscript documents on several platforms.
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GSview Sview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed. GSview...Excerpts covering basic graphics, printing text, applications, and modifying and creating fonts.
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Examples from the Blue book These examples can be found in: PostScript language tutorial and cookbook Adobe Systems Incorporated Reading, MA Addison Wesley, 1985 ISBN 0-201-10179-3 (pbk Click here to get bluebook.shar from ftp.adobe.com. Basic Graphics program 1 Repeated Shaped program 2 Expanded and Constant...Helper program for Ghostscript to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF documents.
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The pstotext program The pstotext program pstotext is a program that works with Ghostscript (version 3.33 or later) to extract plain text from PostScript and PDF files (you should have Ghostscript 3.51 or later for PDF There are other programs to do this,...Collection of utilities for printing and formatting. With documentation and source.
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PostScript tools Table of contents epsutil lptops psposter prescript print-ps-twoside Up to software index epsutil epsutil: Encapsulated PostScript utility documentation: epsutil source distribution: ftp ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#epsutil lptops lptops: line printer text to PostScript converter documentation: lptops source distribution: ftp ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/misc/index.html#lptops psposter psposter: create...Develops software solutions for graphic arts and prepress markets, conversion tools for PostScript, PDF and raster workflows, custom applications for prepress, document management (COLD), large format and variable printing markets. Image compression including fractal, wavlet and JPEG 2000. Plug-ins for Acrobat, Quark and Photoshop.
http://www.apago.com/
A Microsoft Windows implementation of the PostScript programming language interpreter. [Free and commercial versions]
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The RoPS PostScript Viewer This web site is maintained by Centipede Productions as a central resource for the RoPSTM PostScriptTM Interpreter RoPS is a trademark of Centipede Productions. The name PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. What is RoPS?The RoPS interpreter...Resources.
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Luc Devroye's PostScript Page Script is a page description programming language invented by John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, founders of Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is perhaps the most versatile and loved language for printers, being used in printers world-wide. It is capable of drawing...Converts ASCII files to PostScript and spools generated PostScript output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. [GPL]
http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/
Overview and history of language, explanation on how PostScript RIPs work, troubleshooting database.
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The PostScript area The information provided here is geared towards prepress users, with a focus on output on PostScript imagesetters or platesetters. What is PostScript The history of PostScript A small introduction to the PostScript language, now over 15 years old but still...Usenet answers for PostScript questions.
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comp.lang.postscript Newsgroup FAQs Search FAQs Full Text Search Subject/Archive Names Search Article Headers comp.lang.postscript Newsgroup FAQs Usenet FAQs Search Web FAQs Documents RFC Index Cities postscript/faq/part1-4 Subject: PostScript monthly FAQ v2.4 07-18-95 [01-04 of 11] Maintainer: Allen Braunsdorf postscript-faq@cc.purdue.edu Last Posted: 18 Jul...Program to translate PostScript and PDF files into other vector graphics formats.
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pstoedit Overview pstoedit translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats. Supported Formats Currently pstoedit can generate the following major formats: Tgif .obj format (for tgif version 3 fig format for xfig pdf Adobe's Portable Document Format gnuplot format Flattened...Sample program.
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World yet another version in postscript PS-Adobe-3.0 /inch {72 mul} def /Times-Roman findfont 50 scalefont setfont 2.5 inch 5 inch moveto (Hello, World show showpage submitted by: schikore@ccad.uiowa.edu (Matt Schikore and another PS-Adobe-2.0 Creator: cpierce1@ford.com EndComments /mainfont /Courier findfont 12...Utilities to manipulate the way PostScript documents are printed.
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PSUtils PostScript utilities These utilities have been compiled and run on Sun-3 and Sun-4 machines under SunOS Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.1, 4.1.3, 4.1.2, 4.1.1 and 4.0.1, HP9000/375 machines under HPUX 7.0 and HPUX 8.0, Sequent Symmetry machines under Dynix 3.1.4 and PTX 3.2.0,...Essays and examples on PostScript programming.
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Guru's Lair: PostScript library directory Library auctions bargains books contact email home library map ?new? rss Engineering Web This Site Search Guru's Lair: beg stuff books gonzo procs links help newsgroups ps secrets show tell tutorials utilities PostScript from Adobe Systems is an underappreciated yet...David Maxwell's introduction to programming in PostScript.
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PostScript Table of Contents 5 PostScript 5.1 About This Manual 5.2 Introduction to PostScript 5.3 Preparing to Draw: the PostScript Graphics State 5.3.1 PostScript Graphics State Commands 5.4 The Basics of Drawing an Image 5.4.1 Examples of Drawing Paths 5.4.2...Extensive, third edition.
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Postscript Language Referenz Operators int array array Create array of length int mark Start array construction mark obj0 objn-1 array End array construction array length int Return number of elements in array array index get any Return array element indexed by index array...Utility for extracting text from local PostScript files.
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NZDL: PreScript Script is a utility for extracting text from PostScript files. PreScript offers: PostScript conversion to plain ASCII or HTML. PreScript is really a PostScript to plain text converter, but rudimentary HTML can also be produced. Tags are inserted to mark...