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What did you do to learn Postscript? What sort of programs did you write in PS to practice?
by DuncanMak 7y ago
What did you do to learn Postscript? What sort of programs did you write in PS to practice?
- protomyth 7y agoNot parent poster, but I did graphs directly in PostScript. The simplest book to start with is the "Blue" book https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF (from the blog post http://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/12/ehandler.html http://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2016/12/ehandler.html - that book has a lot of examples to really get your feet wet.
- tombert 7y agoI was actually inspired by this blog post: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2fwy1y/a_web_server_in_postscript/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2fwy1y/a_web_s... (page appears to be dead but the conversation is still interesting). I figured that web servers tend to be pretty fun to write and if someone else has figured out how to do one in PS, I would be clever enough to build one too. I guess I was wrong about that because I didn't get very far.