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For folks who want to learn more, the "Green Book" _PostScript Language Program Design_ is a classic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3883749-postscript-la

For folks who want to learn more, the "Green Book" _PostScript Language Program Design_ is a classic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3883749-postscript-language-program-design https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3883749-postscript-langu... and _Thinking in PostScript_ was made available from the author's site and is widely available as a PDF: https://w3-o.cs.hm.edu/users/ruckert/public_html/compiler/ThinkingInPostScript.pdf https://w3-o.cs.hm.edu/users/ruckert/public_html/compiler/Th... For a more typical usage see: https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/ https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/ (I used to do PostScript programming on my NeXT Cube for custom fills and strokes in Altsys Virtuoso)

alpacca-farm 3y ago
Oh, NeXT Cube and custom fills? That's pretty hardcore. Did you find programming in PostScript more intuitive compared to other languages, especially for graphical stuff?
- WillAdams 3y ago
  The Cube was a gift, and the PS work didn't go that far. I found PS pretty inscrutable, esp. the function-filled variant used in Virtuoso, but did manage to get dimension lines coded up (which promptly ran into precision problems which I eventually gave up on). OpenSCAD is a lot more approachable, and METAPOST was easy to pick up and make use of: http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf Still working through this at: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/3d-project https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/3d-project and mostly using visual tools (which arguably is limiting me) https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ and https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor and of course, had to throw: http://pythonscad.org/ http://pythonscad.org/ into the mix. Still a bit miffed that Nodebox and Processing or maker.js weren't a good fit.
ks2048 3y ago
Even the official reference book ("red book" or PLRM, https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf) is readable and very well done.

alpacca-farm 3y ago

Oh, NeXT Cube and custom fills? That's pretty hardcore. Did you find programming in PostScript more intuitive compared to other languages, especially for graphical stuff?

WillAdams 3y ago
The Cube was a gift, and the PS work didn't go that far. I found PS pretty inscrutable, esp. the function-filled variant used in Virtuoso, but did manage to get dimension lines coded up (which promptly ran into precision problems which I eventually gave up on). OpenSCAD is a lot more approachable, and METAPOST was easy to pick up and make use of: http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf http://ftp.tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-2/tb125adams-3d.pdf Still working through this at: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/3d-project https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/3d-project and mostly using visual tools (which arguably is limiting me) https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ and https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor and of course, had to throw: http://pythonscad.org/ http://pythonscad.org/ into the mix. Still a bit miffed that Nodebox and Processing or maker.js weren't a good fit.

ks2048 3y ago

Even the official reference book ("red book" or PLRM, https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf) is readable and very well done.