Scalable #vector fonts like #ps1 #truetype & #otf didn't start with #Macintosh #Adobe #PostScript or #Fontographer, but URW.
Ikarus tribute #MadeWithInkscape

@5SpeedFun some #Xerox #WorkCentre may be good options.

You'll likely fknd something like the #6515VDNI used for way under $300 (those got sold for like €350 about 10 yrs ago new)....

They just work, eating #PostScript as well as scan/mail/fax & print to/from #PDF on USB, eMail and SMB shares...

Not to mention their drvers support everything from MS-DOS, Solairs and AIX to macOS 7 and up and OFT Windows from 95 up and Linux...

The latter one doesn't even need extra drivers, just plug & play.

Some of my #programming language books. Currently reading the #Tcl one.

Am I living in the past? :blobfoxthink:

#retrocomputing #scheme #postscript #shell

John Warnock closed his last path 2023 August 19th. #RIP #ART #vector #illustration #adobe founder, #postscript #pdf #illustrator #interpress #developer Made with @inkscape

Damn it #BoardRoom … why is it every bloody year your final dividend statements contain pictures my printer finds offensive?

Thankfully, one can run them through `pdf2ps` then `ps2pdf12` to get something sane as output which _does_ print successfully.

#PDF #PostScript #TaxTime #rant

heise online: Offen für alle, aber Details verschweigen – zum Tod von John Warnock https://www.heise.de/news/Offen-fuer-alle-aber-Details-verschweigen-zum-Tod-von-John-Warnock-9268589.html
#pdf #postscript #adobe

Surprised Johns death is not acknowledged on the front of #Apple website, since #Adobe was critical to the success of the Macintosh through #Postscript #DTP, #Laserwriter and last I checked, the reason most creative professionals buy high end #Mac is to use one Adobe's pro apps. His death is such irony considering the removal of Type 1 fonts from #Microsoft365. https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-Co-Founder-Dr.-John-Warnock-Passes-at-82/default.aspx

I worked for John for 10 years — he was a kind teacher and amazing engineer. He had a passion for the history of science and how books and printing capture and spread knowledge. #postscript changed the world.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobes-co-founder-john-warnock-dies-82-2023-08-20/

Some useful additional info to previous repost on #Adobe and #Microsoft dropping support for #Postscript Type 1 fonts:

This doesn't affect the rendering of #PDF files with Type 1 fonts in #Acrobat! See below statement from Adobe for details:

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

"No changes are being made to Acrobat. Acrobat will continue handling PDFs in the same manner it has been for more than 20 years"

Ars Technica: Adobe and Microsoft break some old files by removing PostScript font support https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961210 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #postscript #microsoft #Adobe #fonts #Tech

Adobe and Microsoft break some old files by removing PostScript font support - Enlarge / An Apple Macintosh Plus along with an original LaserWriter, t... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1961210 #postscript #microsoft #adobe #fonts #tech

@davefischer @billgoats How does one go about learning #postscript? I know some implementations can be quite small. The #C64 managed.

@billgoats Flashbacks to #GEOS and GeoPublish. It had a lot of the same issues but somehow managed to (mostly) work and have full #postscript support in 64k!

MODULAR MATTER
by Jian Haake [ohjian]

"MODULAR MATTER is the attempt to re-think desktop publishing through the concept of modular synthesis. The outcome is a tool with several independent and combinable hardware modules, each of them performing a specific operation with an operation-specific physical interface. MODULAR MATTER can be played like an instrument in order to generate unexpected printed outcome. The process of making the tool as well as the unfamiliar experience of using the tool hopefully sparks critical conversations around tool ecologies and helps to break open engrained ways of working."

https://project.xpub.nl/modular-matter/
https://media.xpub.nl/2023/thesis/modular-matter-Jian_Haake.pdf
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Ohjian/Final_presentation

#modular #synthesizer #eurorack #postscript #esp32 #raspberrypi #graphicdesign #electronics #XPUB

Did I imagine it, or is there a nicely packaged (possibly WASM) version of MAME running Apple LaserWriter emulation that spits out pages as full-resolution images? 'Cos I'm fairly sure I've seen one but can't find it again

#PostScript #Apple #LaserWriter #MAME #Emulation

TIL that the Apple Laserwriter Pro 810 contains an easter egg that will print a fax order form for a burrito

https://www.journaldulapin.com/2022/02/26/easter-egg-laserwriter/

#RetroComputing #Apple #PostScript #burrito

I've found a decent working approximation of π for #PostScript

/pi 0.001 sin 2 div 360000 mul def

Accurate to 7 decimal places. The language uses single-precision floating point, and all its trig routines work in degrees.

This calculates π using the area of a unit radius n-gon, with n=360000

A = ½n⋅sin(360°÷n)

One of Ramanujan's approximations

π ≅ 9801÷(2206⋅√2)

is about as accurate but opaque.

#mathematics #pi #approximation #FloatingPoint

New Yorker: Cormac McCarthy’s Narrative Wisdom https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/cormac-mccarthys-narrative-wisdom #NewYorker #Culture/Postscript #CormacMcCarthy #Postscript #Obituaries #Literature

Fun #Numerical #Programming tiny challenge: in a language that supports floating point but doesn't have a defined constant for pi, devise an efficient way of approximating pi without resorting to 4*atan(1)

(#PostScript's maths library only works in degrees, so

4 1 dup atan mul

returns 180.0)

I couldn't find my paper copy of PostScript Language Tutorial & Cookbook (“Blue Book”), but I remembered that Adobe used to have it on their developer website for free. With a bit of digging on the Wayback machine, I found the original PDF from 1994, so it's now up on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/PSBlueBook

#PostScript is a programming language like no other, and its graphics primitives formed the model for #SVG.