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What (who) is Postscript - definition

FILE FORMAT AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
PostScript programming language; Postscript programming language; PSCRIPT.DRV; Adobe PostScript; Adobe Postscript; PostScript (programming language); PostScipt; PostScript 3; POSTSCRIPT; PS (vector graphics language); PostScript language

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AFTERTHOUGHT, THOUGHT OF OCCURRING AFTER THE LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND SIGNED
P.s.; Post scriptum; Post-scriptum; Post-script; Post Scriptum; Post script; P.S; P.p.s.; P.S.; Post-postscript; Post-post-postscript; Postscriptum
(postscripts)
1.
A postscript is something written at the end of a letter after you have signed your name. You usually write 'PS' in front of it.
A brief, hand-written postscript lay beneath his signature.
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2.
A postscript is an addition to a finished story, account, or statement, which gives further information.
I should like to add a postscript to your obituary for John Cage.
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AFTERTHOUGHT, THOUGHT OF OCCURRING AFTER THE LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND SIGNED
P.s.; Post scriptum; Post-scriptum; Post-script; Post Scriptum; Post script; P.S; P.p.s.; P.S.; Post-postscript; Post-post-postscript; Postscriptum
<language, text, graphics> A page description language based on work originally done by John Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through "JaM" ("John and Martin", Martin Newell) at XEROX PARC, and finally implemented in its current form by John Warnock et al. after he and Chuck Geschke founded Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1982. PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based language (like FORTH). It was used as a page description language by the Apple LaserWriter, and now many laser printers and on-screen graphics systems. Its primary application is to describe the appearance of text, graphical shapes, and sampled images on printed or displayed pages. A program in PostScript can communicate a document description from a composition system to a printing system in a device-independent way. PostScript is an unusually powerful printer language because it is a full programming language, rather than a series of low-level escape sequences. (In this it parallels Emacs, which exploited a similar insight about editing tasks). It is also noteworthy for implementing on-the fly rasterisation, from Bezier curve descriptions, of high-quality fonts at low (e.g. 300 dpi) resolution (it was formerly believed that hand-tuned bitmap fonts were required for this task). PostScript's combination of technical merits and widespread availability made it the language of choice for graphical output until PDF appeared. The Postscript point, 1/72 inch, is slightly different from other point units. {postscript/postscript.html">An introduction (http://cs.indiana.edu/docproject/programming/postscript/postscript.html)}. ["PostScript Language Reference Manual" ("The Red Book"), Adobe Systems, A-W 1985]. [Jargon File] (2002-03-11)
PostScript         
AFTERTHOUGHT, THOUGHT OF OCCURRING AFTER THE LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN AND SIGNED
P.s.; Post scriptum; Post-scriptum; Post-script; Post Scriptum; Post script; P.S; P.p.s.; P.S.; Post-postscript; Post-post-postscript; Postscriptum
¦ noun Computing, trademark a language used as a standard for describing pages of text.

Wikipedia

PostScript

PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language. It was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984.

Examples of use of Postscript
1. Postscript: The fact that I only did a fortnight‘s cycling does NOT make this a failure.
2. What a secret!‘ He adds his own arch postscript: ‘What‘s the secret?
3. POSTSCRIPT: AUTUMN 2007 Oh boy, did things turn out differently from what I‘d expected!
4. The Postscript said he has not had sex since, is that because hes been put off?
5. Today, however, the Mail can reveal an astonishing and disturbing postscript to this tragic story.