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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: What is PostScript ?
- Message-ID: <9464@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 07:03:48 GMT
- References: <30JUL199223400911@admingate>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <30JUL199223400911@admingate> sd7047787@admingate (SD7047787) writes:
- >What si Postscript?
-
- It's a programming language. If you know Forth, than here you see something
- very similar.
-
- But normally it's not conisdered to be a general-purpose language, but a
- "page description language". Its commands serve to create some image on
- a paper. But with these powerful features of a whole language you can do
- much more than just put some dots on paper that vaguely remind you of a
- letter, no you can have lines, curves, areas, shadings. You can take
- existing shapes and modify them (rotate, shear,...).
-
- So a text program that wants to control a PostScript printer has to
- produce not simply text, but *program* source text, that's then sent to
- the printer, interpreted by it and printed.
-
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