PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook

Adobe Systems Inc.9780201101799, 0-201-10179-3

PostScript, a revolutionary, device-independent page description language, is quickly becoming the industry standard for printing high-quality integrated text and graphics.It is a powerful, flexible language that has the ability to describe efficiently the appearance of text, images, and graphic material on the printed page. Using numerous annotated examples and short programs, the tutorial provides a step-by-step guided tour of PostScript, highlighting those qualities that make it such a unique and powerful language.The cookbook offers a collection of some of the most useful techniques and procedures available to PostScript programmers.

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Table of contents :
Cover Page……Page 1
Table of Contents……Page 3
Preface……Page 7
Ch1: Introduction……Page 9
Ch2: Stack and Arithmetic……Page 14
Ch3: Beginning Graphics……Page 23
Ch4: Procedures and Variables……Page 32
Ch5: Printing Text……Page 39
Ch6: More Graphics……Page 51
Ch7: Loops and Conditionals……Page 65
Ch8: Arrays……Page 81
Ch9: More Fonts……Page 91
Ch10: Circular Text……Page 105
Ch11: Images……Page 115
Ch12: PostScript Printers……Page 122
Introduction to Cookbook……Page 125
Programs 1-6: Basic Graphics……Page 129
Programs 7-12: Printing Text……Page 154
Programs 12-15: Applications……Page 176
Prog.s 16-21: Modifying and Creating Fonts……Page 198
Reference……Page 227
Quotations……Page 228
Operator Summary……Page 229
Index……Page 237
Colophon……Page 242