RE: [LI] What is a postscript file?

["Sachin Shurpali (RBIN/DCA-NMP)" <Sachin.Shurpali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanx Samir

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	From:	Samir Agrawal [SMTP:samira@xxxxxxxxxx]
	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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