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From: mahaun@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Haun)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Simple postscript language question
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.044414.4630@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
Date: 13 Mar 91 04:44:14 GMT
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
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I have a question concerning the postscript language, and the
feasibility of implementing a simple postscript printer output
routine to a program I'm writing.

Some background:  I have recently built a homemade seismograph and
am presently coding the associated C software to record, display,
analyze, and print the seismograph traces.  I'd like to have an
option to print to a postscript printer, which would use only a
very limited subset of the postscript language.

The only graphics commands I require (apart from the initialization
and formatting commands) are point and line drawing commands, which
accept xy coordinates as arguments.  A "lineto" (line from last
position) command would be especially nice.  Does postscript have a
simple line command which could handle this?  Most importantly,
where can I find an accurate syntactic reference for the relevant
parts of the postscript language?

Since I know very little about postscript, any enlightenment would
be appreciated :-) !


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