Thanx Samir
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From: Samir Agrawal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 1:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [LI] What is a postscript file?
hi sachin,
Postscript is programming language first introduced by Adobe in 1985
for
describing page layout in a device independent fashion. The language
is a
derivative of the forth programming language which is a stack based
language with a Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) based syntax.
A postscript file is basically a text file containing a postscript
program
that allows a postscript interpreter (either a program like
ghostscript or
the post script renderer in your printer) to create the image of the
page
for you to use.
For the curious the Adobe Acrobat format is basically Compressed
Postscript with some added features like hyperlinking and so on ..
for an excellent first introduction to postscript you might want to
look
at :
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/postscript.html
besides this you have the official Adobe documentation in the form
of the
Blue Book ( PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook )
hope that helps
samir
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