{"id":7512,"date":"2014-05-01T05:03:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2014-05-01T05:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:03:41","slug":"postscript-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/postscript-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PostScript at Linux Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PostScript at Linux Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

PostScript<\/a> page-layout language enables a user to tailor the use of their hardcopy (or softcopy) documents that end up in this format. PostScript has been around a long time and you may come across printers, particularly on Windows, that don’t output hardcopy. These printers are quite likely to have set up to output to a PostScript file, which will then be stored for later hardcopy printing or be part of an ongoing procedure the software will use (or maybe just gawk<\/a> at, if on unix\/Linux … chortle, chortle).<\/p>\n

The gv viewer window uses X11 (XQuartz<\/a> for Mac OS X Mavericks) GUI functionality which is all “fired up” from the Mac OS X application Terminal’s Bash command line environment in our tutorial today. Another Mac OS X incarnation of an application that uses X11 (XQuartz for Mac OS X Mavericks) GUI functionality is the stupendous, wonderful, marvellous, curiously refreshing<\/strike> (this is not a paid advertisement) GIMP<\/a> and when you open a PDF<\/a> file in GIMP<\/a> you can see the File->Print to PostScript (or PDF) file functionality in action, and we have a snapshot to look at, regarding this, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So today we consider a PostScript file about Apache and open it with the gv viewer (via command like gv README.dsov.ps<\/i>), show some functionality, and print it out.<\/p>\n

Before that, using Mac OS X application Terminal, in Linux Bash session, we:<\/p>\n