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Any references to best coding practice for PS? For example is there a PS lint? (will start hunting for this) update 1: latex http://www.latex-project.org http:

Any references to best coding practice for PS? For example is there a PS lint? (will start hunting for this) update 1: latex http://www.latex-project.org http://www.latex-project.org and http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12668/where-do-i-start-latex-programming http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12668/where-do-i-star... update 0: so open tools for postscript appear to be really interfacing AGPL ghostscript (postscript) api if you can handle the ^agpl^ restrictions ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript

bootload 10y ago
ok here's a quick dump: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript - language reference Adobe V3 https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf - postscript as programming language http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/Flat/lang.html http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/Flat/lang.html - First guide to Postscript http://tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html http://tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html - L-systems in Postscript http://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/programming-lsystems.html http://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/programming-lsystems.html - The PostScript programming language http://www.cburch.com/csbsju/cs/portfolio/postscript.pdf http://www.cburch.com/csbsju/cs/portfolio/postscript.pdf - Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF - PDF vs Postscript https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kssyt/postscript_vs_pdf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kssyt/postscri... - Learn Postscript by Doing https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse2005/tutorial.pdf https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse...
bootload 10y ago
and here's some more: - Open Source PDF Libraries and Tools http://pdf-house.blogspot.com.au http://pdf-house.blogspot.com.au - gnu plot http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/index.html http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/index.html (https://opensourceforu.com/2011/01/plotting-is-fun-with-gnuplot/ https://opensourceforu.com/2011/01/plotting-is-fun-with-gnup...) - Postscript software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software - Ghostscript https://www.ghostscript.com/index.html https://www.ghostscript.com/index.html - Adobe OS tools https://github.com/adobe/adobe.github.com https://github.com/adobe/adobe.github.com - xpost interpreter for the PostScript Language https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xpost-discuss https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xpost-discuss / https://github.com/luser-dr00g/xpost https://github.com/luser-dr00g/xpost
DonHopkins 10y ago
When I worked on NeWS at Sun, we had very strict rules about PostScript coding practices, formatting, documentation, function and stack comments, naming conventions, object oriented programming techniques, etc. I don't have a copy of the coding practices written down any more, but here are some examples: I wrote pizzatool at Sun, as a programming example to show how to use the NeWS toolkit, so it was well commented and intended to be read by developers learning NeWS: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/pizzatool.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/pizzatool.ps.txt http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif Here's a typical NeWS user interface widget that I wrote at Sun following the NeWS coding practices, including the OPEN LOOK slider and menu: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/slider.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/slider.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/menu.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/menu.ps.txt http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif This is older code I wrote on my own before working at Sun, so it's not as rigorously formatted or well documented: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/piemenu.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/piemenu.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/term.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/term.ps.txt And here's a huge file of messy PostScript code I wrote, with a warning at the beginning about how ugly it is: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/litecyber.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/litecyber.ps.txt And here's some really old NeWS code written by James Gosling: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/lander.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/lander.ps.txt
- bootload 10y ago
  thank you @DonHopkins I'll be reading this with great interest. ... going through this, fantastic.
- quickoats 10y ago
  beautiful; thank you

bootload 10y ago

ok here's a quick dump: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript - language reference Adobe V3 https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf - postscript as programming language http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/Flat/lang.html http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/Flat/lang.html - First guide to Postscript http://tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html http://tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html - L-systems in Postscript http://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/programming-lsystems.html http://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/programming-lsystems.html - The PostScript programming language http://www.cburch.com/csbsju/cs/portfolio/postscript.pdf http://www.cburch.com/csbsju/cs/portfolio/postscript.pdf - Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF - PDF vs Postscript https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kssyt/postscript_vs_pdf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kssyt/postscri... - Learn Postscript by Doing https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse2005/tutorial.pdf https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse...

bootload 10y ago

and here's some more: - Open Source PDF Libraries and Tools http://pdf-house.blogspot.com.au http://pdf-house.blogspot.com.au - gnu plot http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/index.html http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/index.html (https://opensourceforu.com/2011/01/plotting-is-fun-with-gnuplot/ https://opensourceforu.com/2011/01/plotting-is-fun-with-gnup...) - Postscript software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software - Ghostscript https://www.ghostscript.com/index.html https://www.ghostscript.com/index.html - Adobe OS tools https://github.com/adobe/adobe.github.com https://github.com/adobe/adobe.github.com - xpost interpreter for the PostScript Language https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xpost-discuss https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xpost-discuss / https://github.com/luser-dr00g/xpost https://github.com/luser-dr00g/xpost

DonHopkins 10y ago

When I worked on NeWS at Sun, we had very strict rules about PostScript coding practices, formatting, documentation, function and stack comments, naming conventions, object oriented programming techniques, etc. I don't have a copy of the coding practices written down any more, but here are some examples: I wrote pizzatool at Sun, as a programming example to show how to use the NeWS toolkit, so it was well commented and intended to be read by developers learning NeWS: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/pizzatool.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/pizzatool.ps.txt http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/pizzatool.gif Here's a typical NeWS user interface widget that I wrote at Sun following the NeWS coding practices, including the OPEN LOOK slider and menu: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/slider.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/slider.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/menu.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/menu.ps.txt http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/images/tnt.gif This is older code I wrote on my own before working at Sun, so it's not as rigorously formatted or well documented: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/piemenu.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/piemenu.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/term.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/term.ps.txt And here's a huge file of messy PostScript code I wrote, with a warning at the beginning about how ugly it is: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/litecyber.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/litecyber.ps.txt And here's some really old NeWS code written by James Gosling: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/lander.ps.txt http://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/lander.ps.txt

bootload 10y ago
thank you @DonHopkins I'll be reading this with great interest. ... going through this, fantastic.
quickoats 10y ago
beautiful; thank you