Tutorial by Examples

The authentic Adobe PostScript interpreters are available in high-end printers, the Display PostScript (DPS) product, and the Acrobat Distiller product. As authors of the standard, these products are considered "the standard implementation" for the purpose of describing differences among P...

PostScript is a Turing-complete general programming language, designed and developed by Adobe Systems. Many of the ideas which blossomed in PostScript had been cultivated in projects for Xerox and Evans & Sutherland. Its main real-world application historically is as a page description language...

Postscript is a dynamic-namespacing or LISP 1 language. But it provides the tools to implement local variables in procedures and other effects needed to implement algorithms. For local names in a procedure, make a new dictionary at the start and pop it at the end. /myproc { 10 dict begin ...

Select a font and fontsize, select location, show string. %!PS /Palatino-Roman 20 selectfont 300 400 moveto (Hello, World!) show showpage Notes and common pitfalls: Failing to set a font (resulting in either no text or a default (ugly) font) Using findfont and setfont but forgettin...

Read the documentation in this order to easily learn postscript: Paul Bourke's excellent tutorial: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/postscript/ Blue Book, first half, the original official tutorial: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF Green Book, how to use posts...