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PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- PostScript
- Programming language.logo
- Adobe PostScript 3 logo.svg
- Programming language.logo size
- 220px
- Programming language.logo caption
- PostScript 3 logo
- Programming language.paradigm
- Multi-paradigm: concatenative (stack-based), procedural
- Programming language.designer
- John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, Bill Paxton
- Programming language.developer
- Adobe Systems
- Programming language.latest release version
- PostScript 3
- Programming language.typing
- Dynamic, weak
- Programming language.implementations
- Adobe PostScript, TrueImage, Ghostscript
- Programming language.influenced_by
- Mesa, Interpress, Lisp
- Programming language.influenced
- File format.name
- PostScript (file format)
- File format.extension
- .ps
- File format.mime
- application/postscript
- File format.uniform type
- com.adobe.postscript
- File format.magic
- %!
- File format.owner
- Adobe Systems
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Described at
PostScript Tutorial
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- media type
- application/postscript
- file extension
- ps
- inception
- 1982-01-01
- described at URL
- www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf
- Stack Exchange tag
- tex.stackexchange.com/tags/postscript
- native label
- PostScript
- software version identifier
- PostScript 3 (1997)
- Commons category
- PostScript
- P13411
- number of the beast
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- History
- PostScript Level 1
- PostScript Level 2
- PostScript 3
- Use in printing
- Before PostScript
- PostScript printing
- Font handling
- Other implementations
- Use as a display system
- Portable Document Format
- The language
- "Hello world"
- Units of length
- Software
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.
== History == The concepts of the PostScript language were seeded in 1976 by John Gaffney at Evans & Sutherland, a computer graphics company. At that time, Gaffney and John Warnock were developing an interpreter for a large three-dimensional graphics database of New York Harbor.