Other uses Postscript disambiguation Refimprove date June 2009 Infobox programming language name PostScript logo File PostScript 3.svg paradigm multi paradigm programming language multi paradigm stack ... Adobe Systems latest release version PostScript 3 latest release date 1997 turing complete Yes typing dynamic, strong implementations Adobe PostScript, TrueImage , Ghostscript , InterPress dialects influenced ... first influenced Portable Document File PDF Infobox file format name PostScript icon extension .ps mime application postscript type code uniform type com.adobe.postscript magic code code owner Adobe ... PostScript standard PostScript PS is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. PostScript is best ... The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 when John Warnock was working at Evans ... Systems in December 1982. They created a simpler language, similar to InterPress, called PostScript ... them to adapt PostScript to be used as the language for driving laser printers. In March 1985, the Apple Computer Apple LaserWriter was the first printer to ship with PostScript, sparking the desktop ... made PostScript a language of choice for graphical output for printing applications. For a time ... RIP for Raster Image Processor for the PostScript language was a common component of laser printers .... Once the de facto standard for electronic distribution of final documents meant for publication, PostScript ... for PostScript, largely due to the growing competition from much cheaper non PostScript ink jet printers, and new software based methods to render PostScript images on the computer, making them suitable for any printer PDF provided one such method . The use of a PostScript laser printer still ... the work of rendering PostScript images from the computer to the printer. PostScript is still an option on most high end models. PostScript Level 1 The first version of the PostScript language was released ... more details
Other uses Refimprove date May 2008 A postscript , abbreviated P.S. , is writing added after the main body of a letter or other body of writing . The term comes from the Latin post scriptum , an expression meaning written after ref Name Sullivan cite book last Sullivan first Robert Joseph authorlink coauthors title A dictionary of the English language publisher year 1877 location Original from Oxford University pages 509 and 317 url http books.google.com books?id d24CAAAAQAAJ&pg PT37&dq postscript dictionary post scriptum Latin&lr &as brr 1&client firefox a PPT37,M1 doi id ref ref Name Tanner cite book last Tanner first William Maddux authorlink cool coauthors title Composition and Rhetoric publisher Ginn & Co year 1922 location Original from the University of California pages xxvii url http books.google.com books?id ydREAAAAIAAJ&pg RA1 PR27&dq postscript dictionary post scriptum Latin&lr &as brr 1&client firefox a doi id nopp true ref which may be interpreted in the sense of that which comes after the writing . A postscript may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or sometimes the main body of an essay or book. In a book or essay, a more carefully composed addition e.g., for a second edition is called an afterword . An afterword, not usually called a postscript, is written in response to critical remarks on the first edition. The word postscript has, poetically, been used to refer to any sort of addendum to some main work, even if not attached to a main work, as in S ren Kierkegaard s book titled Concluding Unscientific Postscript . Sometimes, when additional points are made after the first postscript, abbreviations such as PPS post post scriptum, or postquam post scriptum and PPPS post post post scriptum, and so on, ad infinitum are used, though only PPS has somewhat common usage. A postscript may be used to add additional information about the book. See also Wiktionary Publishing ... more details
wiktionary postscript A postscript is most often a sentence or paragraph added after the signature of a letter. Postscript may also refer to PostScript , a page description and programming language for electronic publishing PostScript Magazine , a British student magazine Post Script, a song by Finch U.S. band Finch from their debut album, What It Is to Burn P.S. , 2004 English film. See also Postscripts , British magazine disambig ... more details
Infobox file format name Encapsulated PostScript icon extension .eps br .epsf br .epsi mime type code EPSF br TEXT uniform type com.adobe.encapsulated postscript owner genre container for contained by extended from PostScript extended to standard vector based yes Encapsulated PostScript , or EPS , is a Document Structuring Conventions DSC conforming PostScript document with additional restrictions ... self contained, reasonably predictable PostScript documents that describe an image or drawing and can be placed within another PostScript document. At minimum, an EPS file contains a bounding box BoundingBox ... can use this information to lay out the page, even if they are unable to directly render the PostScript ... that can draw a bitmap. Without this preview the applications would have to directly render the PostScript ... EPS was first implemented, the only machines widely using PostScript were Apple Macintosh es. These machines could not directly render the PostScript, which presented Adobe Systems Adobe with the problem ... that are logically referred to as one file. By placing the PostScript in the data fork and a standard ... into the header section of the PostScript. Sometimes, though more rarely, they used the WMF Windows .... Both of these PC format EPS files have a particular disadvantage because the PostScript data, header ... the format well enough to extract only the PostScript data. A fourth format known as a EPSI ... is present at all. ref See Encapsulated PostScript File Format Specification link above for authoritative ... EPS files containing the pixels of the image. An EPS file is a stream of generic PostScript printing commands. Thus many PostScript printer drivers have an option to save as EPS, or to add EPS DSC information ..., November 11, 2002 retrieved October 9, 2008 ref See also PostScript Portable Document Format .... Encapsulated PostScript File Format Specification , Version 3.0, Tech Note 5002, Adobe Systems Incorporated ... PDF A First Guide to PostScript Encapsulated PostScript http www.tailrecursive.org postscript eps.html ... more details
Display PostScript or DPS is an on screen display system. As the name implies, DPS uses the PostScript PS imaging model and language to generate on screen graphics. To the basic PS system, DPS adds a number ... common tasks. Early versions of PostScript display systems were developed at Adobe Systems . In 1986, Sun microsystems Sun Microsystems developed a totally independent implementation of Adobe s PostScript ... windows on the display. Unlike Adobe s Display PostScript, NeWS had extensions for handling input ... a Display PostScript system in cooperation with Adobe in 1987. It was an official Adobe product with its own standards, documents and licensing requirements. Changes from Ordinary PostScript In order ... of the procedures and data structures in PostScript are looked up by name, string identifier. In DPS ... allowed Software developer developers to wrap PostScript code into a C programming language C language ... windowing engine. This was often the X Window System , and in this form Display PostScript ... the popularity of DPS when any alternative was available fact date March 2011 . Display PostScript ... space windowing system library Nextstep used PostScript to draw items like titlebars and scrollers ... Document Format PDF , instead of storing and executing PostScript code. A graphics library called Quartz 2D provides PostScript style imaging using the PDF rendering model a subset, plus tweaks, of the PostScript model , but this is used by application frameworks there is no PostScript present ... 1.7 http partners.adobe.com public developer en ps psrefman.pdf PostScript Language Reference, Second Edition , which includes Display PostScript information http partners.adobe.com public developer ps sdk index archive.html dps Display PostScript reference documents External links http c2.com ... Category NeXT Category PostScript ca Display PostScript de Display PostScript es Display PostScript fr Display PostScript ja Display PostScript pt Display PostScript ... more details
Expert subject multiple Typography Computing date February 2009 More footnotes date November 2009 PostScript ... digital typesetting , which uses PostScript file format to encode font information. Font type Type 0 Type 0 is a composite font format as described in the PostScript Language Reference Manual ... fonts. Type 1 Infobox file format name PostScript Type 1 icon extension dl dt small Microsoft Windows ... Win small Binary file binary . Printer Font Binary pfb . genre PostScript outline font containerfor containedby extendedfrom extendedto code .otf code small OpenType PostScript . small standard International Organization for Standardization ISO List of ISO standards 9541 Type 1 also known as PostScript , PostScript Type 1 , small PS1 small , small T1 small or Adobe Type 1 is the font format for single byte digital fonts for use with Adobe Type Manager software and with PostScript printers. It can ... 1 and Type 3 fonts were introduced by Adobe in 1984 as part of the PostScript page description language. They did not see widespread use until March 1985, when the first laser printer to use the PostScript language, the LaserWriter Apple LaserWriter , was introduced. Although originally part of PostScript, Type 1 fonts used a simplified set of drawing operations compared to ordinary PostScript programmatic ... of the PostScript language, but without the standardized approach to hinting or an encryption .... Technology By using PostScript PS language, the glyphs are described with Cubic plane ... of glyphs can be resized through simple mathematical transformations, which can then be sent to a PostScript .... PostScript font utilities The http www.lcdf.org eddietwo type t1utils t1utils font utility ... between the ASCII and binary formats t1ascii and t1binary , and for converting from Macintosh PostScript format to Adobe PostScript font format unpost . Type 2 Type 2 is a character string format that offers ... 1.2 . Type 3 Type 3 font also known as, PostScript Type 3 or small PS3 small , small T3 small ... more details
Infobox file format name PostScript Printer Description icon logo screenshot caption extension .ppd mime text plain, application vnd.cups ppd type code uniform type magic PPD Adobe owner Adobe Systems genre container for contained by extended from extended to standard PostScript Printer Description PPD files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers. A PPD also contains the PostScript code commands used to invoke features for the print job . As such, PPDs function as drivers for all PostScript printers, by providing a unified interface for the printer s capabilities and features. For example, a generic PPD file for all models of HP Color LaserJet contains Basic Device Capabilities LanguageLevel 2 ColorDevice True DefaultColorSpace CMYK TTRasterizer Type42 FileSystem False Throughput 10 which specifies that the printer understands PostScript Level 2, is a color device, and so forth. The PPD can describe allowable paper sizes, memory configurations, the minimum font set for the printer, and even specify a tree based user interface for printer specific configuration. CUPS CUPS uses PPD drivers for all of its PostScript printers, and has even extended the concept to allow for PostScript printing to non PostScript printing devices, by directing output through a CUPS filter. Such a file is no longer a standard PPD, but rather a CUPS PPD . CUPS clients usually read the current PPD file from the server every ... http partners.adobe.com public developer ps index specs.html Adobe PostScript Language Specifications http partners.adobe.com public developer en ps 5003.PPD Spec v4.3.pdf Adobe Tech Note 5003 PostScript ... Postscript Printer Description Category PostScript Category Computer file formats business software stub de PostScript Printer Description es PostScript Printer Description fr Printer Postscript Description nl PPD bestand ja PostScript Printer Description ... more details
Deleted image removed File Conc unsci pt.gif thumb Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments Danish Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift til de philosophiske Smuler is a major work by S ren Kierkegaard . The work is a poignant attack against Hegelianism , the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel . The work is also famous for its dictum, Subjectivity is Truth . It was an attack on what Kierkegaard saw as Hegel s determinism deterministic philosophy. Against Hegel s system, Kierkegaard is often interpreted as taking the side of Libertarianism metaphysics metaphysical libertarianism or freewill , though it has been argued that an incompatibilist conception of free will is not essential to Kierkegaard s formulation of existentialism. As the title suggests, the Postscript is sequel to the earlier Philosophical Fragments . The title of the work is ironic because the Postscript is almost five times larger than the Fragments. The Postscript credits Johannes Climacus as the author and Kierkegaard as its editor. Like his other pseudonymous works, the Postscript is not a reflection of Kierkegaard s own beliefs. However, unlike his other pseudonymous works, Kierkegaard attaches his name as editor to this work, showing the importance of the Postscript to Kierkegaard s overall authorship. Contrasts in Concluding Unscientific Postscript class wikitable Objectivity Subjectivity Objective truth is that which relates to propositions, that which has no relation to the existence of the knower. History, science, and speculative philosophy all deal with objective knowledge. According to Climacus, all objective knowledge is subject to doubt. Focuses on what is asserted. Subjective truth is essential or ethico religious truth. It is not composed of propositions or perceptions ... postscript.html D. Anthony on Concluding Unscientific Postscript http www.uri.edu personal szunjic philos conclud.htm Bob Zunjic s Outline of the Postscript Kierkegaard Category 1846 books Category Books ... more details
Orphan date October 2008 Variable Data Intelligent Postscript Printware FreeFlow VI Suite VIPP is an open language from Xerox that enables highest performance output of personalized variable data PostScript documents http vippsupport.xerox.com eve VIPP Support Forum VIPP was originally called XGF and it is simply groups of PostScript dictionaries which provide macros that simplify writing of complex PostScript commands. PostScript is powerful language which allows variable data printing and personalization of the data stream if the user inserted the right commands in the right position. To implement some of these features a programmer has to write a few, or sometimes many, lines of code. Xerox developed macro procedures in PostScript language dictionaries to facilitate page control with simple commands. For example To merge form graphic form with the data stream you need to understand and write a great deal of Adobe PostScript commands according to the Adobe PostScript Language Reference Manual PLRM, otherwise known as the Red book . Xerox gives you this feature through this simple command formname SETFORM , where formname is the name of the form accessible from the Xerox printer controller DocuSP or FreeFlow Print Server . Several VIPP commands are identical to PostScript commands. VIPP was originally written by couple of Xerox systems Analysts in Switzerland to enable the highest speed Postscript Printers, at that time 50 pages per minute, to have the features of Xerox s famous production printing languages PDL and FDL Xerox proprietary printing languages which provide simple variable data printing. With the success of the personal efforts of these Analyst s Xerox Corporation ... cxp3535e spec enus.html systems, including some PostScript capable office devices that have non volatile ... has a PostScript interpreter http www.adobe.com products postscript overview.html . FreeFlow Print Server ... licensed. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Corporation. Category Digital typography ... more details
Summary This is a screen snapshot from PSIBER PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines , a visual PostScript programming environment and debugger for the NeWS window system, developed by Don Hopkins . It shows tabbed windows containing PostScript objects, which the user can drag on and off of the PostScript stack and into each other, and explore and manipulate by opening up tree structures and editing outlines. Licensing PD self date October 2006 ... more details
Headline text Italic text Summary This is a screen snapshot from PSIBER PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines , a visual PostScript programming environment and debugger for the NeWS window system, developed by Don Hopkins . It shows tabbed windows containing PostScript objects, which the user can drag on and off of the PostScript stack and into each other, and explore and manipulate by opening up tree structures and editing outlines. Licensing PD self date October 2006 ... more details
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Document Structuring Conventions , or DSC , is a set of standards for PostScript , based on the use of comment computer programming comment s, which primarily specifies a way to structure a PostScript file and a way to expose that structure in a machine readable way. A PostScript file that conforms to DSC is called a conforming document . The need for a structuring convention arises since PostScript ... the pages for printing, or for a page layout program to find the bounding box of a PostScript file used as a graphic image. Collectively, any such program that take PostScript files as input data is called ... manager to do certain things, like inserting a font or other PostScript code collectively called ... an effect. DSC is the basis for encapsulated PostScript EPS files are conforming documents with further ... the disallowing of certain PostScript operator programming operator s deemed inappropriate for page description s. This ensures a basic level of predictability in the PostScript code, thus forming ... of the PostScript showpage operator. The functional independence between pages, plus the disallowing of more PostScript operators in the pages section, form the basis for page independence , which ... by delimiting the PostScript file with DSC comments , which normally begin with two percent .... Sections of reusable PostScript code can be modularized into procsets procedure sets, corresponding ... of PostScript code. Procsets and other PostScript resources for example, fonts can be omitted from the PostScript file itself, and externally referenced by a directive like DSC comment such external ... are a layer of communication beyond the PostScript language and do not affect the final output, their use is considered to be good PostScript language programming style. Thus, most PostScript ... dvips k 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software identifies the PostScript producing program ... manager the coordinates, measured in PostScript point typography point s, of the bounding ... more details
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Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Yet Another Previewer or YAP is the name of two different document previewing applications, one for Device independent file format DVI and one for PostScript . PostScript The YAP for PostScript previewing is used to dynamically edit and re render PostScript as if one was editing a file, unlike the actual PostScript interpreter itself such as ghostscript , which deals with PostScript input interactively from a user. YAP first was bundled with the NeXT demos package of NeXTSTEP , which was also bundled with OPENSTEP . It was not carried into its incarnation as Mac OS X , presumably because of PostScript s lessened importance with the OS X subsystems relying on Display PDF instead. DVI Image yapshot.png thumb right 300px YAP from MiKTeX running under Windows XP The YAP for DVI viewing is a program bundled with the widely used MiKTeX TeX distribution for the Microsoft Windows platform. YAP allows zooming in and out by several integer factors, besides having a magnifying glass feature for local zooming. It supports PostScript specials for instance, rendering LaTeX documents with PSTricks . Since YAP supports inverse search when the DVI file was compiled with source specials , it can be configured to launch a LaTeX editor for the source file, placing the cursor on the corresponding word under the cursor in YAP. However, unlike PDF , there is no search facility. YAP is free software published under the GNU GNU General Public License GPL . It was written by Christian Schenk. See also Yet Another Category Free TeX software ... more details
Sfnt is a font file format used for PostScript fonts PostScript , TrueType and OpenType fonts. Sfnt stands for Spline mathematics spline font , and was originally developed for Apple Computer s QuickDraw . ref Cite web title The sfnt format work Apple Developer Connection publisher Apple url http developer.apple.com fonts tools tooldir TrueEdit Documentation TE TE1sfnt.html accessdate 2010 10 18 ref See also Web typography References reflist Typ stub Category Digital typography ru Sfnt uk Sfnt ... more details
lowercase title dvips dvips is a software program that converts the DVI file format DVI format output of TeX typography into a printable or otherwise presentable form. tt dvips tt was written by Tomas Rokicki to produce printable PostScript files from DVI input, and is now commonly used for general DVI conversion. The TeX typesetting system outputs DVI files which are intended to be device independent independent of the output device . In particular, they are not understood by computer printer printer s and lack information such as font shapes. Thus, a converter i.e., a backend is needed to translate from a DVI file to a printer language. Although other DVI backends such as dvilj exist, tt dvips tt is, as stated earlier, one of the most common ways of printing DVI files. Another, more recent solution is the use of pdfTeX to directly generate Portable Document Format PDF files, which have readers for most platforms. Given its importance, tt dvips tt is a standard part of most TeX distributions, such as teTeX , and TeX Live . By using TeX code special code commands, it is possible to directly insert literal PostScript into the DVI file and have such snippets of PostScript appear in the final file generated by tt dvips tt . This flexibility allows the user to include, say, watermarks on his document especially via the use of proper packages ref http www.ctan.org tex archive macros latex contrib eso pic ref or further postprocess the PostScript file. ref tt pstricks tt ref When producing postscript files, dvips embeds fonts inside the file. Most recent distributions will normally embed scalable fonts, also known as Type 1 font s. Files generated with older distributions, however, may embed raster fonts. To substitute raster for scalable fonts in a postscript file in a situation where the original dvi file is unavailable use a utility called pkfix . References reflist External links http www.radicaleye.com dvips.html Official website Category PostScript Category Free TeX ... more details
The Linotronic imagesetter s are a now common type of high quality Computer printer printer , capable of printing at resolutions of up to 2540 dots per inch . The Linotronic allowed graphic artist s to cheaply set type that exceeded the quality of many phototypesetting systems in use at the time. Although too expensive for homes or most offices, but cheaper than many other alternatives of printing, it was the graphic designers dream. Linotronic output by taking a PostScript file to a service bureau . Manufactured by Mergenthaler Linotype Company and popularized by the Adobe Systems Adobe raster image processor RIP , enabling PostScript language files to be imaged by the Linotronic imagesetter. It was the first commercial usage of PostScript, which began the emergence of graphics applications dominance by Adobe. References http www.linotype.com 49 14025 19631972.html History of Linotype 1963 1972 http www.fonthaus.com xheight linotype.cfm Linotype Library A company with a very long tradition. Category Printing tech stub ... more details
John Wiley & Sons year 2004 isbn 9780631205661 url http books.google.com ?id Ex5hJQAACAAJ postscript ... postscript . Citation title Examining the farming language dispersal hypothesis author1 Peter S. Bellwood ... year 2002 isbn 9781902937205 url http books.google.com ?id fuFwAAAAIAAJ postscript . Citation ... University year 2001 url http books.google.com ?id rpWBAAAAMAAJ postscript . Citation title Prehistory ... last Bellwood year 1997 isbn 9780824819071 url http books.google.com ?id cM3AAAACAAJ postscript . format ... Peter S. publisher year 2000 postscript . Translation of Harvnb Bellwood 1997 Citation title The Austronesians ... ?id 9uyuHAXBuRkC postscript . Citation title The Austronesians historical and comparative perspectives ... 1995 isbn 9780731521326 url http books.google.com ?id 9uyuHAXBuRkC postscript . Citation title Archaeological ... Archives year 1988 url http books.google.com ?id 2qILAAAAIAAJ postscript . Citation title Recent ... url http books.google.com ?id gMoJj 0Z94UC postscript . Citation title Man s conquest of the Pacific ... Press year 1979 isbn 9780195201031 url http books.google.com ?id GeeAAAAAMAAJ postscript . Citation ... and Hudson year 1978 isbn 9780500020937 url http books.google.com ?id cM3AAAACAAJ postscript . format ... url http books.google.com ?id rKwKAQAAIAAJ postscript . Book chapters Citation title Origins, Ancestry ... 42 url http books.google.com ?id 7i dwpmAf2UC postscript . Citation title Areal Diffusion and Genetic ... ?id sPGe7aBSkpkC postscript . Citation title The Human Past World Prehistory & the Development ... Hiscock pages 264 305 postscript . Citation title The peopling of East Asia putting together archaeology ... isbn 9780415322423 url http books.google.com ?id f6XTKUYc5CMC postscript . Citation title Traces ... Bellwood pages 31 40 url http books.google.com ?id j2piAAAAMAAJ postscript . Citation title Sumatra ... Peter Bellwood page 28 url http books.google.com ?id 9pC6AAAAIAAJ postscript . Citation title Problems ... Duckworth year 1976 isbn 9780715609422 url http books.google.com ?id M KBAAAAMAAJ postscript ... more details
PFB or pfb may refer to Postcards from Buster , a spin off children s TV series of Arthur Printer Font Binary , a binary PostScript font file Pseudofolliculitis barbae , a medical term for persistent inflammation caused by shaving disambig it PFB ... more details
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