“The PostScript Page Description Language” by Hourvitz, Gass and Shore – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“The PostScript Page Description Language” by Hourvitz, Gass and Shore

  • 1988 13 Cover The PostScript Page Description Language

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Entry Number: 13

Title:

    The PostScript Page Description Language

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    TOPICS
    • Introduction/Hourvitz
    What problems does the PostScript language address?
    Demonstration
    • The PostScript language and its facilities/Shore, Gass
    Syntax
    Stacks
    Interpretation
    Virtual memory
    Data Types
    Procedures
    Dictionaries
    • The PostScript imaging model/Reid,Gass
    Paint through mask
    Coordinate systems
    Path construction
    Filling and stroking
    Images
    Fonts
    Using type
    • PostScript Applications/Hourvitz, Reid
    PostScript-based application programs
    Display PostScript
    Interchange formats using the PostScript language
    Other sources of PostScript information

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    Mary Whitton

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    Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota

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