PostScript(R) Language Tutorial and Cookbook (APL)

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. 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 This describes how to use the Postscript programming language that was developed by Adobe. It has many examples in the tutorial & "Cookbook". The term cookbook is very well used here, as it describes how to "cook" the recepes to make the printer do what you want. This book gives novices an introduction to Postscript--the state-of-the-art ingredient that drives Apple's LaserWriter printer. It also includes practical cookbook examples. Adobe Systems Incorporated. Includes Index. Companion V.: Postscript Language Reference Manual By Adobe Systems. Bibliography: P. 227.