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PostScript from Adobe Systems is an underappreciated yet superb
general purpose computing language. In its spare time, PostScript
also excels at dirtying up otherwise clean sheets of paper.
You can click here for free PostScript & Acrobat official docs.
Only recently has PostScript become exceptionally fun and easy to
use. You simply create a textfile and send it to Distiller. Outputs can
be in the form of PDF docs, screen reports, log files, or new disk files.
Among its many other capabilities, PostScript can read or write virtually
any disk file format in just about any language. PostScript is a premier
choice any time exotic calculations need to be combined with fancy
visual presentations. PostScript also has unique robotics potential.
This library shelf holds one of the world's foremost collections of raw
PostScript-as-language demos, utilities, and applications.
Also offered is lots of support for all of the more traditional desktop
publishing uses of PostScript. There are also companion Acrobat PDF,
Webmastering, Fonts & Bitmaps, and Book-on-Demand pages.
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Most library files require an Adobe Acrobat 4.0 plug in for online
viewing. Offline, these may be accessed by an Acrobat Reader or
an eBook Reader or any other .PDF accepting program.
Tutorials: | . |
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Our PostScript-as-language Gonzo utilities and our PostScript
Beginner Stuff tutorials and our PostScript Show & Tell demos
appear in special sections below.
Use Distiller as a General Purpose PostScript Computer Acrobat Distiller or GhostScript makes a superb general purpose interpreting PostScript computer with amazing capabilities. This HTML tutorial includes fundamentals and a dozen+ linked demos. |
Click here for Don's Gonzo PostScript Utilities.
Click here for Don's PostScript Beginner Stuff.
PostScript Insider Secrets PSINSCRT.PDF Classic early tutorial on unique PostScript capabilities. Note that we now use host based Distiller pseudo-compiling , and that font paths are mostly unlocked and easily nonlinearly remapped. |
You can email me for other PostScript update info.
PostScript Startup Secrets STARTUP.PDF A classic reprint of Don's from PC Techniques magazine. Includes startup and interface fundamentals. These days, host based Acrobat PDF is a better route. |
Click here for PostScript Book access info.
PostScript Speedup Secrets SPEEDUP.PDF A classic reprint of Don's from PC Techniques magazine. Includes speedup fundamentals for earlier PS printers. These days, host based Acrobat PDF is a better route. |
Click here for Custom Research assistance.
PIC PostScript Flutterwumpers POSTFLUT.PDF All of the raw power of genuine 100% authentic Adobe PostScript can easily get applied to stunningly low cost PIC robotic systems. Royalty free! Tutorial gives examples and insider details. |
Click to reach our Flutterwumper library page.
Resource Bin #70 RESBN70.PDF
Exploring PostScript PIC Flutterwumpers. Getting started with PostScript as language. Two examples. Robotic flutterwumpers. Flutfiles and PIC's. How it works. For more help. Contest. |
Click here for additional Resource Bin columns.
Resource Bin #92 RESBN92.PDF Exploring some PostScript possibilities. What is PostScript? Adobe Acrobat. GhostScript. Gonzo Utilities. PostScript and the web. PS as Examples. Scripting combo. PostScript Robotics. More.. |
Click here for more Resource Bin columns.
Blatant Opportunist #12 WHYLIKE.PDF Older Why I Like PostScript intro to an incredible general purpose computer language that also can dirty up otherwise clean sheets of paper. Fundamentals, options, and emerging opportunities. |
Click here for more Blatant Opportunist columns.
Six clicks to Display PostScript SIXCLICK.HTML Absolutely genuine Adobe Display PostScript has been available for Windows 95 and newer platforms. For side by side source code and visual display. Here are the utterly trivial insider secrets involved. |
Click here for Adobe Acrobat assistance.
Hyperbolic Cubic Spline Fitting HYSPLINE.PDF Don Lancaster Acrobat tutorial shows the steps involved in approximating a 1/x hyperbola with a pair of cubic splines, done to exceptional accuracy. |
Click here for more Cubic Spline info.
PostScript "alpha" transparency (!) ALPHADEM.PDF Everybody knows it is "impossible" to get real PostScript to paint in translucent pixels. Demo shows how easy it is done. Transparency consulting and development services are newly available. |
Click here for alpha transparency sourcecode.
The latest Illustrator 9 and Acrobat 5 PostScript
implementations have largely obsoleted the above
alpha technique. See Adobe ATN5407 for details.
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Tech Musings #147 MUSE147.PDF A look at pendulum accellerometers. Servo and feedback books. PS Log file 404 error extractor. Listening in on bat navigation. Using synchros and selsyns. USB Complete book. More... |
Click for Instant Consulting solutions.
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Tech Musings #149 MUSE149.PDF Where to get parts. Acrobat web searches. New touch screen chip. Reformation free fuel cells. PostScript proc diversion. Secrets of transmission line transformers. NDT resources More... |
Click for more Tech Musings columns.
Blatant Opportunist #22 PICOJUST.PDF Don's "third stage" text justification scheme gives you outstanding results. Justification fundamentals. Fill justify basics. Adding bells and whistles. Picojustification concepts. Sourcecode listings. |
Click for the Gonzo Justification sourcecode.
Click for more Blatant Opportunist tutorials.
Duplex Auto-addressing Catalog BODCAT.HTML Tutorial and PostScript sourcecode for a duplex, 16 page, auto- addressing, auto-collating, auto-tumbling, dual paper stock saddle stitched BOD brochure or catalog printing. |
Click for the BODCAT.PSL sourcecode.
Click for an Older Catalog demo. (contents not current)
Font conversion tutorial and demo OLDFONTS.HTML Older Adobe "printer only" fonts are tricky to install into PC ATM. Tutorial shows how to combine PFA2PFB.PS with readable .PFM files found in Type on call. Read as HTML document. |
Click for Custom Research solutions.
PS strings/arrays/integers conversion STRCONV.HTML A PostScript string is really a special array of integers of value 0-255. Here 's a tutorial of the six procs you need to get from string to array to integers and back. Two procs are elegant and non-obvious. |
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HTML to multi-page Acrobat Linking Demo Once you know the rules, it is easy to jump from a HTML page to any position or magnification in an Acrobat .PDF file. Tutorial and demo shows how to use and link Acrobat named destinations. |
Click here for more Adobe Acrobat assistance.
JPEG to PDF file conversion JPEG2PDF.HTML Simple PS proc textfiles sent to Acrobat Distiller can easily convert host resident JPEG disk files into PDF images. Here is a brief Don Lancaster tutorial on the short and simple code that is needed. |
Click here a more detailed STEPPREP.PDF example.
And its detailed STEPPREP.PSL companion sourcecode.
Copyright Symbols & ISO Encoding COPYRITE.HTML There are dozens of "hidden" characters in a "normal" PostScript font By going to an ISO Encoding, many of these characters can newly be used. Examples include copyright, registered, and trademark. |
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Avoiding PostScript -exp- blowups EXPBLOW.HTML Use of very high powers and small numbers in the PostScript exp exponential operator works fine in Distiller but sometimes blows up on older PS interpreters. Here's the reason and the workaround. |
Click here for our new GuruGram library.
Palatino and Pathforall Workarounds DISTPALO.HTML Acrobat Distiller does not directly or internally support Palatino or other "extended 35" fonts. Here are workarounds to let you properly use Palatino and the PostScript -pathforall- operator with Distiller. |
Click here for Patent Avoidance info.
Acrobat Security Flaws INSECURE.HTML Brief Don Lancaster tutorial on Acrobat security flaws in Acrobat 2.1 Security is hypersensitive to added characters or non-transparent data channels. Worse, a "print to disk" circumvents all other user security. |
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Tech Musings #113 MUSE113.PDF A superb new color printer. Pager motors and vibrators. An online patent repository. Two more patent horror stories PostScript as language. Finding rms voltages and currents. |
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Blatant Opportunist #40 SPOTCOLR.PDF Insider secrets to making B/W print more colorful include papers, preprints, toners, diecuts, color toners, Kroy Color, Bakerizing, hiliters, and a sneaky new PostScript Colorizer. |
Click here for more Blatant Opportunist columns.
Tech Musings #110 MUSE110.PDF A new PostScript video character generator. NTSC fundamentals. Aerial photos priced as low as $10 per square mile.. Resources for video and tv. New analog video fader chip. |
Click here for PostScript Robotics info.
Click for the Captain Video secret mountain laboratory.
Tech Musings #102 MUSE102.PDF A "colorizer" for PostScript; Using binomial coefficients; Laser printer repair resources; magnetic field intensity paper; HP 5SiMX Book-on-demand printer, more. |
Click here for more Webmastering assistance.
PostScript "web friendly" colors WEBCOLOR.PS Tutorial, utilities and demo show you how to do 215 "web friendly" and simply numbered PostScript colors. Read first in editor or wp then send to Acrobat Distiller. |
Click here for a web friendly colors demo.
Click for the Guru's Gonzo PostScript Utilities.
Post Script-as-language utilities: | . |
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Our PostScript-as-language Gonzo utilities and our PostScript
Beginner Stuff tutorials and our PostScript Show & Tell demos
appear in special sections below.
Don Lancaster's Gonzo PostScript Utilities The combination pagemaking and illustration package Don uses for all of his work. It is powerful, flexible, and device independent. But not wysiwig. Also see the PostScript Beginner Stuff. |
Click to directly download the Gonzo Utilities.
PostScript & Distiller disk file utilities DISKTOOL.PS PostScript, Ghostscript or the Acrobat Distiller can easily access printer or host hard drives. This is a collection of Don's disk file access tutorials and utilities. Includes web site analysis examples. |
Click for Custom Research solutions.
Acrobat "Galley Slave" GALLERY.PDF Tutorial and insider secrets for PDF thumbnail gallery generation. The many advantages over HTML include data base sourcing, single file delivery and fast images. |
Click here for a Gallery PDF demo.
Click here for more Acrobat PDF assistance.
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Secrets of GRABREFS.PSL PostScript-as-language utility reads a log file, then extracts only offsite and non-search-query referrals. View in editor, modify and then send to Acrobat Distiller or GhostScript. |
Click here for more Webmastering tutorials.
Fitting 3 points to a quadratic curve PARAFIT.PSL Brief Don Lancaster tutorial and PostScript demo of fitting three data points to a parabola and quickly finding the x and y values of the minimum. For curve fitting and minimization. |
Click here for other Math Stuff tutorials.
Drawing a circle through 3 points CIRC3PTS.PSL Brief Don Lancaster tutorial and PostScript demo of drawing a circle through three points. Finding the slope at the midpoint leads to less tedious improved curvetracing routines. |
Click here for the CIRC3PTS.PDF demo.
Click here for new CURVETR2.PSL sourcecode.
Click here for new CURVETR2.PDF demo.
Auto-Tracking PDF web links AUTOURL.PDF Sourcecode and insider secrets for automatically repositioning Acrobat url links. These can be data base entered and are totally source document controlled. They move correctly upon editing. |
Click here for additional GuruGrams.
Here's some sourcecode and earlier info:
Pre-embedding Acrobat source URL's URLINDOC.PSL Tutorial and Guru Gonzo PostScript patches that let you embed url links directly into your pre-Acrobat source documents. Short and simple PostScript routines make the job really easy. |
Click here for more Acrobat PDF assistance.
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Hardware Hacker #59 HACK59.PDF High side FET drivers. Drawing semilog plots. Laser printer repair kits. Fundamentals of resonance. Far East computing resources. Semiconductor manufacturer resources. |
Click here for more Hardware Hacker columns.
PS Referral log query extractor GRABSRCH.PSL PostScript-as-language utility reads a log file, then extracts only referring reasearch engine query terms. View in editor, modify, and then send to Acrobat Distiller or GhostScript. |
Click for Custom Research solutions.
Bubble Sort Utility BUBLSORT.PS Simple stack-oriented utility that bubble sorts up to several thousand values. Read tutorial first as textfile, then test and modify as runnable PostScript code. |
Click here for additional Math resources.
Insertion Sort Utility INSORT.PS Simple stack-oriented utility that approximates an insertion sort up to several thousand values. Read tutorial first as textfile, then test and modify as runnable PostScript code. |
Click here for Adobe Acrobat assistance.
Tech Musings #89 MUSE89.PDF BASIC Stamp Manuals. Secrets of Fibonacci sunflowers. New Bezier cubic spline book. Adobe's elegant Acrobat. E-field ac voltage sensing. |
Click for more Tech Musings columns.
Some Acrobat web page utilities AWEBUTIL.HTML Acrobatic web page advantages can be compelling. Tutorial and code shows how to do a "HTML-like" only better web page menu selection. Includes hot buttons and linked urls. All in one file. |
Click hereto view a AWEBDEMO.PDF demo
Acrobat url extractor & tester GRABURLS.PSL Utility extracts PDFmark url links from any Acrobat file. Use for proofing & link testing. Read in wp or editor, change filename, then send to Acrobat Distiller. Output appears in Distiller log file. |
Click for an HTML transfer file Sample Output.
Showpage Diverting Sourcecode DIVERTSP.PSL Diverting the showpage operator is an extremely powerful tool to provide color underlays, watermarks, standard borders, page renumbering, etc. Read in wp or editor; send to Distiller. |
Click for a Showpage Diversion PDF demo.
PostScript web site analysis utility WEBSITAN.PSL Utterly amazing utility converts Acrobat's Distiller into a super power web site analyzer! Download as PostScript file; read as tutorial, then modify. Then distill. Results appear in the generated .LOG file. |
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More website analysis utilities WEBLOGU2.PSL PostScript-as-language tools and demos for web site analysis. Sorted file-by-customer reports, compresses log files by 25:1, Extract custom info faster and simpler than most web software. |
Click here for Adobe Acrobat assistance.
Web error log analysis utilities WEBERRU2.PSL Additional PostScript-as-language tools and demos for web site analysis. Reads Apache error file, extracts only access errors and ranks by occurance. Read as textfile, modify, send to Distiller. |
Click for more Webmastering help..
Still more web site analysis utilities REFLOG1.HTML Additional PostScript-as-language tools and demos for web site analysis. Separates individual customer from virtual extended Microsoft Server log and extracts referral report. |
Click here for the REFLOG1.PSL sourcecode.
Referral log analyzer utilities REFSUM1.HTML Additional PostScript-as-language tools and demos for web site analysis. Totalizes and sorts daily referral reports into a composite filtered referral log summary. |
Click here for the REFSUM1.PSL sourcecode.
PostScript .PFA to .PFB font conversion PFA2PFB.PSL Uses Acrobat Distiller (or GhostScript or ps printer with disk) to convert PC .PFA (hex-ascii) format font files to .PFB (binary) format font files. Read with wp, then Distill. PFB files are used internally. |
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PostScript .PFB to .PFA font conversion PFB2PFA.PSL Uses Acrobat Distiller (or GhostScript or ps printer with disk) to convert PC .PFB (binary) font files to .PFA (hex-ascii) font files. Read with editor, then Distill. PFA files can be modemed as text. |
Click here to visit the GuruGram library.
PostScript Flutterwumper Utilities FLUTOOLS.PSL A set of flutterwumper tools that convert ordinary PostScript code directly into a flutfile, or series of low level incremental X-Y-Z steps needed for low level motion control. Includes circles and typography. |
Click here for the Flutterwumper Library.
Click here for a Flutterwumper Tutorial .
PS 4X4 Linear Equation Solver LINEQ04.PSL Tutorial and test demo solves n=4 linear algebraic equations by first using Gaussian Elimination followed by back substitution. This can easily be extended to other orders. |
Click here for additional Gauss-Jordan theory.
Click here to reach the Math Stuff library.
Acrobat Catalog File Formats ACATDATA.PSL Shows how to read Acrobat Catalog file internals so that new custom features can easily be added. Read tutorial in editor or word processor, modify filenames, then send to Acrobat Distiller or GhostScript. |
Click here for Adobe Acrobat assistance.
Acrobat Catalog Keyword Reader CATWORDS.PSL Extracts alphabetical keyword list from Acrobat Catalog data. Read tutorial in editor or word processor, modify filenames, then send to Acrobat Distiller or GhostScript. |
Click here for Acrobat Catalog consulting.
Acrobat Catalog Utility Tools CATOOLS1.PSL Some PostScript utilities that let you read Acrobat catalog internals. Includes a word frequency extractor. View in wp or editor, modify and then send to Distiller or GhostScript. Generates ASCII textfiles. |
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Hardware Hacker #68 Sourcecode HACK68.PSL The sourcecode and template used to generate HACK68.PDF. Text file written in raw Guru Gonzo PostScript. Includes examples of pulse monitor software using PostScript-as-languagee. |
Click here for the actual HACK68.PDF column.
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Sourcecode & Template MUSE110.PSL The sourcecode and template usd to generate MUSE110.PDF. Text file written in raw in Guru Gonzo PostScript. Newly includes URL links pre-built into the source code using pdfmark. |
Click for the actual MUSE110.PDF column.
Click here for more Tech Musings columns.
Netscape News Reformatter NEWSFORM.PSL PostScript-as-language reads the compressed Netscape Newsgroup format,and converts to HTML "hot link" code. Read with editor, then send to Distiller or GhostScript. |
Click here for Blatant Opportunist columns.
Binomial Goes Binary ONESWORD.HTML PostScript utility to generate all possible binary words of length "n" having "k" ones in them. For magic sinewaves and exploration of the binomial theorem. Read in editor, send to Distiller. |
Click here for a Magic Sinewave development proposal.
Improved web colorizer utility COLORIZ2.HTML Revised PostScript utility to simply upgrade existing gray tone documents so they print in continuous selectable color tints on lline and on screen, yet appear as original grays on a B/W printer. This disgustingly elegant code also shows you how to write a |
Click here for the PostScript Sourcecode.
Click here for a Colorizer Demo & Directory.
PS Bezier curve through fuzzy data! FUZZYBEZ.HTML Don Lancaster utility shows how to fit a Bezier curve to fuzzy data points. While preserving end points and optionally the end angles. Read PS sourcecode in editor, modify then send to Distiller. |
Click here for the PostScript Sourcecode.
Click here for the Acrobat PDF demo.
Bezier curve through four points BEZ4PTS.PDF Jim Fitzsimmons TEX tutorial shows how to fit a Bezier curve through two end points and two intermediate points, all of which are on the desired cubic polynomial curve. |
Click here for a BEZ4PTS Sourcecode utility.
Tech Musings #144 MUSE144.PDF Temperature measurements. Thermocouple fundamentals. Working with newsgroups. PostScript Gambler's Ruin simulation Understanding "favicon.ico". Thermometry books. More. |
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Sourcecode & Template MUSE109.PSL The sourcecode and template usd to generate MUSE109.PDF. Textfile written in raw Guru Gonzo PostScript. Note text justification quality and hyphenation algorithm. Send to any PostScript device. |
Click here for more Tech Musings resources.
Click for the actual MUSE109.PDF column.
Older PostScript utility archive: | . |
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These are mostly archival older historic or superceded files.
You can email me for current info...
PS "Galley Slave" auto gallery gen GALLEY1.PSL Emulates an HTML "gallery" or "thumbnail" page or pages in a single downloading file from a convenient data base. Read first in editor or WP, then Distill using Acrobat . Full sourcecode. |
Click to view the PDF Galley Slave demo.
Linear Equation Solver LINEAREQ.PSL A group of PostScript utilities and demos that use determinants to solve high order linear algebraic equations. Explicit examples shown to 10x10. Includes linear phase digital filter design examples. |
Click here for more Hardware Hacker columns.
A nonlinear "Tuna Can" transform TUNACAN.HTML Tutorial on a quick and dirty Tuna Can transform that lets you wrap lettering around a tilted can or cylinder. Also an example of how to use Don's Gonzo utilities and Acrobat as PostScript interpreter. |
Click here for a newer full Tuna Can utility.
Gonzo Utility Procs: | . |
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They are a combination pagemaking and illustration program that
can offer exceptional control, especially for use with precise font
justification, outstanding electronic schematics, superb robotics,
fully automatic active web linking, step-and-repeats, and any place
intensive calculations are related to graphic display or presentation.
Gonzo is also able to read and write virtually any file format in almost
any language. It is also a superbly flexible emulator.
They are totally device and platform independent.
The Gonzo Utilities are purposely and proudly ~not~ WYSIWYG. They
are also somewhat tedious and time consuming and have a rather steep
learning curve. But text to visual displays are often only a few seconds
away from each other. Gonzo gives you absolute and total control.
In typical use, a PostScript program is created using Wordpad or a
similar word processor or text editor. It is then customized and then
saved as an ordinary ASCII textfile. Often with a .PSL trailer. That
program is then sent to Acrobat Distiller. From which a PDF file,
useful screen messages, a log file, or one or more new disk files can
be uniquely custom created.
The following code line ~must~ be present near the begainning of each
of your programs to prepend the Gonzo code...
(C:\\windows\\desktop\\gonzo\\gonzo.ps) run % use internal gonzo
Be sure your FULL filename EXACTLY matches your Gonzo.PS
location. Also be sure to use DOUBLE REVERSE SLASHES any
time you mean a single reverse slash. This is an odd quirk required
of reverse slashed PostScript strings.
Alternately, if you do not want to install Gonzo.PS on your computer,
put Gonzo.PS on a floppy disk and add this line instead....
(A:\\gonzo.ps) run % use external gonzo
After prepending, these lines are normally used to activate the Gonzo
utilities by opening appropriate PostScript dictionaries...
gonzo begin % activate gonzo utilities
ps.util.1 begin
nuisance begin
Detailed Gonzo Use examples appear below. We can also provide you
with custom online or live training on a negotiated basis. Our seminars
are often held at Black Range Lodge, a superbly remote New Mexico
wildernes retreat.
Don Lancaster's Gonzo PS Utilities A superb collection of raw PostScript-as-language tools that include outstanding text justification, superb electronic schematics, plus absolute and total control in a non-WYSIWYG format. |
Click here for Custom Gonzo Utility assistance.
Examples of simpler Gonzo utility usage appear in the PostScript
Beginner Projects below.
Here are detailed examples of how the Gonzo Utilities are used for
Don's Tech Musings and Blatant Opportunist ezine columns. These
include powerful pagemaking templates and automatic fully tracking
url link insertion...
Sourcecode for Blatant Opportunist #65 MYEBAYS.PSL
My eBay Secrets. Fundamentals. Getting stuff. Listings. Images. Getting paid. Closing your sale. Guarantees & refunds. Reserves, Dutch, BIN. Promotion. Storage. Protection. Snipers. Lots more... |
Click here for the actual MYEBAYS.PDF file.
Sourcecode for Tech Musings #153 MUSE153.PSL Bouncy brick secrets. Privatizing mil surplus. Bogus water powered cars. Fundamentals of electrolysis. Reducing table lookup sizes. Quadratic interpolation. Bounty hunting patents for $$$$. |
Click here for the actual MUSE153.PDF file.
Be sure to note the super secret hyphenation algorithm that Don
uses in virtually all of his PDF files.
This one shows how to include multiple JPEG files in a PDF doc...
Sourcecode for Tech Musings #67 STEPPREP.PSL Secrets of Step-by-step Image Prep. Postprocessing. Scanner vs camera. knockout knockouts. Pixel locking. Adding detail. Improving lettering. The small stuff. For more help. |
Click here for the actual STEPPREP.PDF file.
And here is a tutorial on Gonzo's outstanding text justification...
Blatant Opportunist #26 PICOJUST.PDF Don's "third stage" text justification scheme gives you outstanding results. Justification fundamentals. Fill justify basics. Adding bells and whistles. Picojustification concepts. Sourcecode listings. |
Click here for Custom Gonzo Utility assistance.
PostScript Beginner Projects: | . |
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The PostScript beginner projects began as a Community College
one semester course that Bee and I team taught at EAC.
The primary goals of the course were to...
(A) teach fundamental raw PostScript language programming
(B) show students how to profit solving community needs
(C) provide a beginner's tutorial to my Gonzo PS Procs
Typical projects included letterheads, business cards, resumes,
numbered tickets, ads, bumperstickers, reversed store window stick
ons, curve tracing, door hangers, pads (for some mysterious reason,
prescription pads seemed ~very~ popular), wedding announcements,
newsletters, basic text layouts, thank you notes, and similar items.
These routines originally used the PS interpreters inside PostScript
printers. It is much simpler, faster, easier, and more fun today to use
host-based Acrobat Distiller instead.
To do this, you first install my Gonzo.PS Procs in your computer in a
suitable file folder, such as /gonzo/gonzo.ps on your desktop.
Your PostScript programs are normally created and saved as plain
old ASCII text files, using Wordpad or another suitable editor. The
following code line ~must~ be present near the beganning of each of
your programs...
(C:\\windows\\desktop\\gonzo\\gonzo.ps) run % use internal gonzo
Be sure your FULL filename EXACTLY matches your Gonzo.PS
location. Also be sure to use DOUBLE REVERSE SLASHES any
time you mean a single reverse slash. This is an odd quirk required
of reverse slashed PostScript strings.
Alternately, if you do not want to install Gonzo.PS on your computer,
put Gonzo.PS on a floppy disk and add this line instead....
(A:\\gonzo.ps) run % use external gonzo
We can also do this or similar courses for you on a negotiated basis.
Our seminars are often held at Black Range Lodge, a superbly
remote New Mexico wilderness retreat.
Don & Bee Lancaster's PostScript Beginner Projects A collection of simple PostScipt-as-language projects that solve real world needs such as letterheads, resumes, bumperstickers, etc... This is the viewable and printable PDF version. |
Here are the sourcecode files for the individual projects. We have
prepended "(C:\\windows\\desktop\\gonzo\\gonzo.ps) run" to these,
so be sure to edit them if your Gonzo.PS is in a different location.
To use these files, view them in Wordpad, verify a runnable Gonzo
command, then modify them to meet your needs. Then save them as
an ordinary ASCII textfile. Then send them to Acrobat Distiller...
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Here's some other quick and easy PostScript sourcecode, utilities,
and demos of both beginner and ongoing professional interest...
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PostScript Secrets: | . |
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These ezine resources started out as LaserWriter Corner columns
I once wrote for Computer Shopper. The name was later changed to
PostScript Secrets as other PostScript uses became popular. Extra
supplemental material was later added to the BOD versions.
Mostly in the form of ready to use PostScript-as-language routines.
This older content is presented as a historical archive and has ~not~
been updated. Nor is it quite up to our current display standards. A
few of the free fonts also do not yet image quite as the originals.
Note in particular that our area code is now (928) and that PostScript
code today is normally run using Distiller, instead of printer based.
Note also that some of the earlier fancier tricks happened ~before~
unlocked font paths became available. email me for the latest info.
Don Lancaster's POSTSCRIPT SECRETS An early collection of useful and unique PostScript resources. Including supply sources, unusual techniques., free fonts, and PostScript-as-Language routines. |
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PostScript Show and Tell: | . |
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Don Lancaster's POSTSCRIPT SHOW & TELL An early "showcard" group of gee-whiz demos of all the neat stuff you could now do using newly available PostScript laser printers. While rather tame now, it was super spectacular at the time. |
Click here for Custom Research assistance.
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Adobe System's Adobe.com Premier PostScript home includes free Acrobat and eBook reader software, product details, developer's info, much more. |
Click for free PostScript & Acrobat technical docs.
Peter Deutsch's GhostScript |
PostScript & GhostScript Internet Resources |
Internet Compatible ToastScript |
Hewlett Packard at www.hp.com |
PostScript video applications at Videonics.com |
PostScript and PDF tools from Enfocus Systems |
Many related links can be found in the Acrobat PDF library.
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Acrobat PDF and PostScript:
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