Postscript for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Working With This Software for Telling Printing Machines How to Display Published Pages in Books or Magazines"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Postscript is a programming language with the special purpose of describing the appearance of a printed page. Postscript was developed by Adobe Software in 1985 and was a major factor in getting that company started as the world leader of both paper publishing and e-publishing software. The PDF file format of Adobe Acrobat is the standard for online, cross-platform books and documents.

Postscript files have the .ps ending -- all major printer manufacturers make printers that support it

It runs on all major operating systems. The basic purpose is to provide a cross-platform language for telling the printer where to put everything on the page and how to display it.

It described the text and other elements to be printed on a page for the printer to print out. It supports the Type 1 and TrueType formats of typefaces. It is a page description language.

Also, you can use Adobe Acrobat to convert PDF documents to the Postscript format. It is normally interpreted, and stack-based.

These are the Postscript basics.

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