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PostScript

/pohst"skript', pohs"-/, Trademark.

a page description language using scalable fonts that can be printed on a variety of appropriately equipped devices, including laser printers and professional-quality imagesetters.

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▪ computer language

a page-description language developed in the early 1980s by Adobe Systems Incorporated on the basis of work at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). Such languages describe documents in terms that can be interpreted by a personal computer in order to display the document on its screen or by a microprocessor in a printer or a typesetting device.

PostScript commands can, for example, precisely position text, in various fonts and sizes, draw images that are mathematically described, and specify colour or shading. PostScript uses postfix, also called reverse Polish notation, in which an operation name follows its arguments. Thus, “300 600 20 270 arc stroke” means: draw (“stroke”) a 270-degree arc with radius 20 at location (300, 600). Although PostScript can be read and written by a programmer, it is normally produced by text formatting programs, word processors (word processor), or graphic display tools.

The success of PostScript is due to its specifications being in the public domain and to its being a good match for high-resolution laser printers. It has influenced the development of printing fonts, and manufacturers produce a large variety of PostScript fonts.

David Hemmendinger

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Universalium. 2010.

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PostScript — Класс языка: мультипарадигменный, стековый, процедурный Появился в: 1982 г. Автор(ы): Джон Уорнок, Чарльз Гешке Релиз: PostScript 3 (1997) Типизация данных … Википедия
Postscript — ist eine Seitenbeschreibungssprache, die unter diesem Namen seit 1984 vom Unternehmen Adobe entwickelt wird. Sie ist eine Weiterentwicklung von InterPress und stellt eine Turing vollständige stackorientierte Programmiersprache dar.… … Deutsch Wikipedia
PostScript — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda PostScript es un lenguaje de descripción de páginas (en inglés PDL, page description language), utilizado en muchas impresoras y, de manera usual, como formato de transporte de archivos gráficos en talleres de… … Wikipedia Español

PostScript — Apparu en 1982 Auteur … Wikipédia en Français

Postscript — Apparu en 1982 Auteur John Warnock Chuck Geschke … Wikipédia en Français
Postscript — (v. lat.), Nachschrift; abgekürzt: P. S., P. Scr., N. S.; Postscribiren, einem Schreiben noch etwas (ein Postscript) beifügen … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
postscript — noun 1) постскриптум (сокр. P. S.) 2) комментарий к выпуску но востей (по радио) … Англо-русский словарь Мюллера
Postscript — Post script, n. [L. postscriptus, (assumed) p. p. of postscribere to write after; post after + scribere to write: cf. F. postscriptum. See {Post }, and {Scribe}.] A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
postscript — 1> (P.S.) постскриптум 2> эпилог 3> рад. тлв. комментарий к последним новостям 4> (любая) дополнительная информация … Новый большой англо-русский словарь
postscript — index addendum, allonge, codicil, insertion, rider Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
PostScript — es un Lenguaje de Descripción de Página (en inglés PDL, Page Description Language), utilizado en muchas impresoras y como formato de transporte de archivos gráficos en talleres de impresión profesional. Está basado en el trabajo realizado por… … Enciclopedia Universal