On 15-Nov-00, Gil Knutson wrote:
>
> On 14-Nov-00,* Don Cox*, of Planet Eros, wrote these Wise Words:
>
>> Postscript output involves the following steps:
>
> ======= snip ==========
>
>> % simple font test <--- comment /Helvetica-Oblique findfont
>> <----change of font 72 scalefont setfont <----change font size 100
>> 100 moveto <----coordinates for word(s) (Hello World) show
>> <----words to print showpage <----complete the page
>
> ============= snip ========
>
>> (Those who have PS printers can try copying those lines of PS to
>> par: )
>
> And then what? Oh, I do have a PostScript printer... : )
(You leave out the bits after the arrows of course.)
And then you should get a page with "Hello World" printed on it. You can
try different sizes and typefaces, and multiple lines of text. It's just
to get an idea of how simple PostScript is for plain output. It only
gets complicated when you have stuff like structured graphics with
gradient fills, which doesn't happen in HTML.
My point is that PS printing is probably easier to code than
configurable menus. ;-)
Regards
--
Don Cox
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