PostScript

PostScript is a stack-based page description language created by Adobe to print graphics and text precisely. It revolutionized desktop publishing and is the direct ancestor of PDF. Printers interpret it to draw each page.

• Creado por John Warnock & Charles Geschke (Adobe)
• Año 1982
• Paradigma: Concatenative · stack-based
• Extensiones: .ps, .eps

Para qué se usa

• Professional printing
• Page description
• Origin of PDF

A favor

• Precise graphics
• Device-independent
• Basis of desktop publishing

En contra

• Not general-purpose
• Unusual stack syntax
• Niche

Ecosistema

• Ghostscript
• Adobe Distiller
• GSview

Ejemplo

/Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont
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