PostScript Language Reference Manual

Inc. Adobe Systems9780201181272, 0-201-18127-4

communications. This powerful and flexible language efficiently describes the appearance of text, sampled images, and graphics on a printed page or display. PostScript language interpreters have been incorporated into some of today’s most innovative printers, typesetters, film records, and computer display environments.The PostScript Language Reference Manual from Adobe Systems Incorporated is the official reference to the PostScript language. This entirely new and up-to-date Second Edition offers the most comprehensive coverage of the entire PostScript language, including the recent advancements of PostScript Level 2.The PostScript Language Reference Manual, contains the complete semantics of every PostScript language operator, the Display PostScript System, PostScript Level 1 (the original PostScript language), and PostScript Level 2, the first major revision to the language since its release in 1985. PostScript Level 2 incorporates recent extensions to the language and many new features including:* CMYK color * Composite fonts * Forms * Patterns * Color separations * Resource management * New memory management * Improved screening algorithms * Data compression/decompression * Support for printer-specific features * Device-independent, CIE-based color * Optimized text and graphics operators As PostScript continues to be the industry standard page description language for imaging high-quality text and graphics, the PostScript Language Reference Manual, remains the definitive resource for all PostScript language programmers.

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Table of contents :
cover……Page 1
Postscript Language Reference Manual……Page 2
ÿþContents……Page 5
ÿþChapter 1……Page 11
ÿþ1.1 About This Manual……Page 12
ÿþ1.2 Evolution of the PostScript Language……Page 14
ÿþ1.3 PostScript Level 2 Overview……Page 16
ÿþ1.4 Copyrights and Trademarks……Page 18
ÿþ2.1 Raster Output Devices……Page 20
ÿþ2.2 Scan Convention……Page 21
ÿþ2.3 Page-Description Languages……Page 22
ÿþ2.4 Using the PostScript Language……Page 25
ÿþChapter 3 Language……Page 32
ÿþ3.1 Interpreter……Page 33
ÿþ3.2 Syntax……Page 34
ÿþ3.2 Data Types and Objects……Page 42
ÿþ3.4 Stacks……Page 52
ÿþ3.5 Execution……Page 54
ÿþ3.6 Overview of Basic Operators……Page 59
ÿþ3.7 Memory Management……Page 64
ÿþ3.8 File Input and Output……Page 80
ÿþ3.9 Named Resources……Page 94
ÿþ3.10 Errors……Page 108
ÿþ3.11 Early Name Binding……Page 110
ÿþ3.12 Binary Encoding Details……Page 114
ÿþ3.13 Filtered Files Details……Page 131
ÿþChapter 4 Graphics……Page 152
ÿþ4.1 Imaging Model……Page 153
ÿþ4.2 Graphics State……Page 155
ÿþ4.3 Coordinate Systems and Transformations……Page 159
ÿþ4.4 Path Construction……Page 166
ÿþ4.5 Painting……Page 169
ÿþ4.6 User Paths……Page 173
ÿþ4.7 Forms……Page 181
ÿþ4.8 Color Spaces……Page 185
ÿþ4.9 Patterns……Page 209
ÿþ4.10 Images……Page 219
ÿþ4.11 Device Setup……Page 235
ÿþ5.1 Organization and Use of Fonts……Page 266
ÿþ5.2 Font Dictionaries……Page 273
ÿþ5.3 Character Encoding……Page 278
ÿþ5.4 Font Metric Information……Page 280
ÿþ5.5 Font Cache……Page 283
ÿþ5.6 Modifications to Existing Fonts……Page 284
ÿþ5.7 Type 3 Fonts……Page 287
ÿþ5.8 Unique ID Generation……Page 292
ÿþ5.9 Composite Fonts……Page 294
ÿþChapter 6 Rendering……Page 302
ÿþ6.1 CIE-Based Color to Device Color……Page 303
ÿþ6.2 Conversions Among Device Color Spaces……Page 312
ÿþ6.3 Transfer Functions……Page 316
ÿþ6.4 Halftones……Page 318
ÿþ6.5 Scan Conversion Details……Page 329
ÿþChapter 7 Desplay PostScript……Page 334
ÿþ7.1 Multiple Execution Contexts……Page 335
ÿþ7.2 Encoded User Names……Page 341
ÿþ7.3 Graphics and Window Systems……Page 343
ÿþ7.4 Bitmap Fonts……Page 348
ÿþChapter 8 Operators……Page 352
ÿþ8.1 Operator Summary……Page 355
ÿþ8.2 Operator Details……Page 369
ÿþAppendix A Changes to Language and Implementation……Page 564
ÿþAppendix B Implementation Limits……Page 574
ÿþAppendix C Interpreter Parameters……Page 580
ÿþAppendix D Compatibility Strategies……Page 590
ÿþAppendix E Standard Character Sets and Encoding Vectors……Page 600
ÿþAppendix F System Name Encodings……Page 616
ÿþAppendix G Document Structuring Conventions-Version 3.0……Page 620
ÿþAppendix H Encapsulated Postscript File Format-Version 3.0……Page 718
ÿþAppendix I Guldelines for Specific Operators……Page 746
ÿþAppendix J Bibilography……Page 754
ÿþIndex……Page 756
back……Page 777