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I do not believe that PostScript is "almost entirely useless as a general purpose tool" (I do sometimes use it as a general purpose tool), although improvements
by zzo38computer 5y ago
I do not believe that PostScript is "almost entirely useless as a general purpose tool" (I do sometimes use it as a general purpose tool), although improvements could be made. Some of the features that Ghostscript has are good (such as the ARGUMENTS array, and the %pipe% device); I have some ideas how to improve it further too (alpha transparency, optional auto-allocation for many operators, ExternalDecode and ExternalEncode filters, Environment resource category, a few of the features from NeWS, etc).
- smackeyacky 5y agoGranted its been a while since I played with Postscript i.e. NeWS system on a Sun back in the day. Still, I wouldn't choose it over Make or bash for doing something. Does Ghostscript have file handling capability?
- zzo38computer 5y ago> Does Ghostscript have file handling capability? Yes (you can use the standard PostScript file handling operators), although it is disabled by default. Use the -dNOSAFER option to enable the file handling capability.