[HN Gopher] Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain Ou... ___________________________________________________________________ Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain Out of Printing (1988) Author : takiwatanga Score : 21 points Date : 2022-04-23 20:33 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (spectrum.ieee.org) (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org) | vincent-manis wrote: | I'm glad Warnock and Geschke didn't already have the ideas of the | modern Adobe in their heads. If they had, the LaserWriter would | have required a monthly cloud subscription, and if the customer | cancelled, both the printer and everything they had already | printed would vanish. | | I also think that Illustrator 88 was a great improvement on its | successors. | ivanviso wrote: | That fixed the formatting. | | Next is fixing the printers. | | And then, the users. Ugh. | [deleted] | svat wrote: | (1988) | | > _This article was first published as "'PostScript' prints | anything: a case history." It appeared in the May 1988 issue of | IEEE Spectrum. [...] The diagrams and photographs appeared in the | original print version._ | | So the article is from 1988, except for the update at the bottom: | | > _Update April 2022: While most home and office printers rely on | other page description languages these days, PostScript remains | the choice of graphics artists and commercial printers for its | ability to accurately produce complex images. And the ubiquitous | Portable Document Format (PDF) is based on PostScript._ | throw0101a wrote: | PPD files can be very handy: | | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description | | Sort of like 'OS-neutral printer drivers'. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-23 23:00 UTC)