In first edition, there was a home-grown postscript interpreter, psi,
but it was replaced by gs in second edition.  The degree of difficulty
depends upon what `it' is.  gs can interpret and emit Postscript or
PDF of varying versions, and includes a substantial set of Postscript
fonts.  As I recall, just getting a Postscript interpreter to render
reasonably quickly (er, less than pessimally slowly) is quite a job.
PDF seems to be an attempt to rein in the full generality of the
Postscript language.

Perhaps the people who make Forth interpreters could make a fast
Postscript interpreter, though I suspect that graphics is the
bottleneck.

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