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From: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Simple postscript language question
Message-ID: <041335.7809@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 14:04:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.044414.4630@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
Reply-To: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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In article <1991Mar13.044414.4630@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>, mahaun@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Haun) writes:
|> 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 :-) !

Try reading the "PostScript Language Reference Manual", by Adobe, and
published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-10174-2).  It's quite an easy
book to read, and should tell you all you need to know.  You'll be
pleased to learn that there *is* a `lineto' command.  It's called
`lineto' :-)  (Though it's not necessarily quite as simple as that...)


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