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mail@systemantics.net about us areas of work: information management research web development products: collector safari view win references: miscellaneous works postscript programming websites workflow support Systemantics develops all kinds of Postscript programs, including self-modifying Postscript files and database-driven visualizations. Our typical clients in this field are design agencies which need a professional partner for implementing their ideas. Postscript programming = postscripting Postscript, invented by Adobe, is a programming language intially used for controlling printers. The main idea was to write a computer program that tells a printer what to print, and making this program independent from operating systems like Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. Postscript, then, evolved to a general programming language to describe layouted material. There is a derived form of Postscript, called Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), which is used as to embed small pieces of Postscript images to other applications. Postscript works by describing how an image is composed. To print a circle, a Postscript program would contain the directive >draw a circle with line width X at position Y with radius Z fill the circle < would be added. But Postscript is a full-fledged programming language. That means that it includes more than just drawing directives. It can, for example, be used to create images that look differently each time you load or print them. Creating such images is what we reference to as >postscripting | |
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