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This is good but Postscript is even better. Someday I'll learn it and see what I can do with it.
by fizixer 9y ago
This is good but Postscript is even better. Someday I'll learn it and see what I can do with it.
- chris_st 9y agoWhen you want to learn it, I recommend the "Blue Book", aka "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" By Adobe Systems Incorporated. It's a very thin book, but a great tutorial and example reference. I enjoyed going through it, and still occasionally generate PostScript for visualizations.
- protomyth 9y agoVery much worth learning, if for nothing else being an extremely cool stack language. I learned it for my first job that I only had Turbo C 2.0, foxbase, and an HP4 printer with the Postscript module to do graphical reporting on a dataset. chris_st's recommendations are how I learned it.
- pjmlp 9y agoYou lucky guy. I remember going though HP and Epson printer manuals, writing down their control escape codes into a xBase table so that our Clipper application could talk to the printers and do the respective formatiing. Having access to a PS printer would have been a much more positive experience.
- rcarmo 9y agoI used to hand-code Postscript files back when the Apple LaserWriter was launched. I had a little kaleidoscope-like thing that did patterns for Xmas decorations, and once I did a text-to-workflow routine to print out diagrams. It's all gone now (I did part of it on a VAX and part on an SE/30), but it was lots of fun at the time.
- perlgeek 9y agoPostscript is easier to get started with, IMHO. See this example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#.22Hello_world.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#.22Hello_world.22 When I was actively play with Sudoku programs, I wrote a bit of code that generated sudoku images in svg, (e)ps and and a few other formats. It was a bit fiddly, but not really complicated.