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John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, Bill Paxton
Developer
Adobe Systems
First appeared
1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Stable release
PostScript 3
/ 1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Typing discipline
Dynamic, weak
Major implementations
Adobe PostScript, TrueImage, Ghostscript
Influenced by
Mesa,[1] Interpress, Lisp
Influenced
PDF
PostScript (file format)
Filename extension
.ps
Internet media type
application/postscript
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
com.adobe.postscript
Magic number
%!
Developed by
Adobe Systems
Type of format
printing file format
Extended to
Encapsulated PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.
^Perry, T.S. (May 1988). "'PostScript' prints anything: a case history". IEEE Spectrum. 25 (5): 42–46. doi:10.1109/6.4550. S2CID 33376390.
Postscript", Formats, Undocumented Printing, archived from the original (wiki) on 2017-11-05, retrieved 2009-12-15 Adobe Systems (1999). PostScript language...
Unscientific Postscript. Sometimes when additional points are made after the first postscript, abbreviations such as P.P.S. (post-post-scriptum) and...
Windows 2000 https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html "The Adobe PostScript 3 Font Set" (PDF). Archived from the original...
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) is a Document Structuring Convention (DSC) conforming PostScript document format usable as a graphics file format. The format...
Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed...
PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript...
of application software, hardware, and operating systems. Based on the PostScript language, each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout...
The PostScript Standard Encoding (often spelled StandardEncoding, aliased as PostScript) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe...
Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS...
plug-ins has been removed. System API support for converting PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files to PDF format has been removed, following previous...
longer supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files. Printing of such files, to a printer natively supporting PostScript, remains possible...
one for DVI and one for PostScript. The YAP for PostScript previewing is used to dynamically edit and re-render PostScript as if one was editing a file...
The PostScript Latin 1 Encoding (often spelled ISOLatin1Encoding) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS)...
PostScript's exec operator takes an operand — if it is a simple literal it pushes it back on the stack. If one takes a string containing a PostScript...
1985 (shipping in January 1987) as Adobe's second software product after PostScript. Adobe co-founder and CEO John Warnock created Illustrator in late 1986...
Metafont code, generating the bitmap fonts that can be embedded into e.g. PostScript. Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth as a companion to his TeX typesetting...
creative driving force behind Adobe System's initial software products: PostScript, Adobe Illustrator, and the PDF, and he continued to be involved in new...
3.1, as well as in other Microsoft programs, Apple's macOS, and many PostScript 3 printers. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia...
Acrobat Distiller is a software application for converting documents from PostScript format to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), the native format of the...
"Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) File Format, Version 3.x". Library of Congress. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-05. "Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) File Format...
Retrieved 29 June 2011. PostScript Language Reference. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. 1999. p. 596. ISBN 0-201-37922-8. "PostScript Tutorial - Loops"....
S. H. Rosenthal. The NeWS interpreter was based on PostScript (as was the later Display PostScript, although the two projects were otherwise unrelated)...
printing plates are aligned. The PostScript printer description languages supports registration black, starting with PostScript language level 2. This is done...
led to PageMaker's success was its native support for Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language. After Adobe purchased the majority of Aldus's...
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