Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PostScript Programming
Message-ID: <305@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 02:32:50 GMT
References: <1100@hao.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
Lines: 28
Keywords: Interactive, Mac Program
Summary: Try "Postscript Tool"

In article <1100@hao.ucar.edu> bill@hao.ucar.edu (Bill Roberts) writes:
>Does anyone in this news group know of any software that allows interactive
>PostScript programming on the Mac?  I'm primarily interested in a system that 
>can be used as a PostScript learning environment as well as possible PostScript
>function prototyping.  Thanks in advance for any info on this subject.

There's a freebee PS downloading tool from Adobe which is fairly primitve
but will do the job.  It's called PS Dump, and it's the companion program to
their Downloader (for fonts).

There's also something called Postscript Tool floating around many BBSs.  It
allows multiple windows, downloading of your PS files and capturing of anything
the LaserWriter puts on it's standard output (i.e., not just error messages --
you can, for example, get a list of all the fonts in the LaserWriter by
typing "FontDirectory { pop = } forall".  The output is collected in a TextEdit
window and you can even save it in a file.

According to the docs, it's an early freeware version of a much more extensive
Postscript programming tool.  I've used it a couple of times and it works
well enough (better than Adobe's).

If there's any general interest in it, let me know and I'll see what I can
do via e-mail or comp.binaries.mac (it's only about 12k).

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