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Postscript is a device-independent page description language, which in principle allows text and images to be rendered on any raster device. It was originally designed for printer control, but it can also be used to control screen displays, as in the NeWS [1] system. The standard references for the language are the excellent Adobe manuals [2].
“... like women’s letters; all the pith is in the postscript.”
William Hazlitt
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Roberts R, Slater M et al. (1988) First impressions of NeWS. Computer Graphics Forum, vol 7. North-Holland, Amsterdam pp 39–57
Adobe Systems Incorporated (1985) Postscript language tutorial and cookbook, Postscript language reference manual. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA
Eliot TS (1944) Four quartets. Faber and Faber, London
Gonczarowski J, Paradise O (1989) Inscript — a C-like preprocessor for Postscript. Electronic Publishing 2(3):157–167
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Jones, S. (1991). Postscript. In: Text and Context. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3162-5_12
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