PostScript
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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.
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PostScript 3 logo | |
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: concatenative (stack-based), procedural |
|---|---|
| Designed by | John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, Bill Paxton |
| Developer | Adobe Systems |
| First appeared | 1982; 41 years ago (1982) |
| Stable release | PostScript 3
/ 1997; 26 years ago (1997) |
| Typing discipline | Dynamic, weak |
| Major implementations | |
| Adobe PostScript, TrueImage, Ghostscript | |
| Influenced by | |
| Mesa,[1] Interpress, Lisp | |
| Influenced | |
| Filename extension |
.ps |
|---|---|
| Internet media type |
application/postscript |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | com.adobe.postscript |
| Magic number | %! |
| Developed by | Adobe Systems |
| Type of format | printing file format |
| Extended to | Encapsulated PostScript |