PostScript
Foundations
(5 Days, hands-on)
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A First Class in PostScript Programming
The PostScript Foundations class is a five-day, hands-on class that teaches the student how to write programs in the PostScript language. It discusses all of the major mechanisms and features common to all versions of the PostScript language.
This class lays the foundation for writing PostScript code for producing documents or modifying currently-existing documents. It discusses PostScript programming, efficiency, and underlying language structure.
This course is approved by Adobe Systems as its official PostScript Language class.
Objective
The student will
learn how the PostScript language works and to write programs that employ
all the main capabilities of the language. The student will know the principles
of writing fast, efficient code in PostScript.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with
computer concepts. Previous programming experience helps.
Audience
Printer engineers,
software engineers, advanced software and hardware support personnel.
Course Outline
Day 1
| - Background to PostScript |
| - Basics: Selecting fonts, the coordinate system |
| - CTM Operators: scale, translate, rotate |
| - Paths: lines, line widths |
| - Specifying color |
| - The Graphics State |
| - Circular Arcs |
Day 2
| - Operand Stack |
| - Stack errors and operators |
| - Variables and procedures |
| - Loops |
| - Comparison and conditional execution |
| - Clipping |
| - Converting objects to strings |
Day 3
| - Device Space |
| - PostScript objects and data types |
| - Scanner/tokenizer |
| - The four stacks |
| - Binding |
| - Bezier curves |
| - Even-odd and winding rules |
| - Line caps, joins, and dash patterns |
| - Memory management |
- setpagedevice |
Day 4
| - File operations |
| - Introduction to filters |
| - Transformation matrices |
| - Images |
| - Color and color spaces |
| - Variations on show |
| - Error handling |
Day 5
| - Font dictionary contents |
| - Changing fonts |
| - Creating fonts |
| - Downloadable fonts |
| - Encapsulated PostScript |
| - Common efficiency errors |
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