# Postscript

- Page: https://shared.btbytes.com/p/postscript
- Date: 2022-11-02
- Tags: programming, typesetting, graphics, postscript

[Mathematical Illustrations](https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/) an introduction to mathematical illustrations using postscript programming language. This is one of the best showcases of postscript

[Don Lancaster (tinaja.com)](https://www.tinaja.com/) and his many [notes](https://www.tinaja.com/pssamp1.shtml) on postscript publishing; [Obituary](https://gilaherald.com/obituary-for-don-lancaster/).


<figure>
  <img src="https://files.btbytes.com/images/2024/03/SCR-20240326-trxp.png.webp" alt="Don Lancaster passing away notice">
  <figcaption>Don Lancaster passed away in June 2023.</figcaption>
</figure>


[PostScript: A Digital Printing Press | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33820907). Main discussion about [PostScript: A Digital Printing Press](https://computerhistory.org/blog/postscript-a-digital-printing-press/) from the Computer History Museum article, but the HN page has lots of links to PS stuff; Dec 2022.

[The origins of Postscript](https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/2018-warnock.pdf) by John Warnock, founder of Adobe in *IEEE Annals of History of Computing* (2018) via [gwern](https://gwern.net).

[A First Guide to PostScript](http://www.tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html) by Peter Weingartner. Online book.

[PSChess - A Chess Engine in PostScript](https://seriot.ch/projects/pschess.html)

[PostScript® 1.0 - A Code Study | ℤ→ℤ](https://ztoz.blog/posts/postscript-code/)

[nasa/pvslib: NASA PVS Library of Formal Developments](https://github.com/nasa/pvslib) with 18% postscript code (among [common-lisp](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/common-lisp), [python](https://shared.btbytes.com/p/python) etc )


[nst/PSTris: A Tetris implementation in PostScript](https://github.com/nst/PSTris)

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See also: My [Hello Postscript](https://v1.pradeepgowda.com/programming/hello-postscript/index.html) page.