Re: PCL or PostScript

Greetings  "Don Cox" <doncoxenterprise.net>
On 11/02/2007 at 15:36 you wrote concerning
[PageStreamSupport] Re: PCL or PostScript


Hi Don and Tim,

DC> On 11/02/07, Tim Doty wrote:

DC>> The fact that PostScript *does* have such ability
makes it *more* than
DC>> just a page description language -- you can quite
literally write
DC>> programs in it. A small PostScript program to
create a fractal
DC>> snowflake (among other PostScript programs) used
to float around the
DC>> BBSes and I'm sure can still be downloaded
somewhere on the Internet.

The Blue Book gives a great collection of relatively simple
PostScript programs,
some of which produce amazing output.


DC>> However, in practice very few people/applications
make use of the
DC>> programming aspects of PostScript. Instead they
use it as just a page
DC>> description language.

Being that its primary purpose is to describe a page, then
the above is not
surprising. 


DC> Don Lancaster is the great champion of Postscript
programming.

DC> http://www.tinaja.com/

Thanks for the reference above, Don. Never heard of the
gentleman.


Cheers  Don (Green Dragon)
-- 




 
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