PostScript
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For other uses, see Postscript (disambiguation).
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.
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Quick Facts Paradigm, Designed by ...
Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: concatenative (stack-based), procedural |
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Designed by | John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, Bill Paxton |
Developer | Adobe Systems |
First appeared | 1982; 42 years ago (1982) |
Stable release | PostScript 3
/ 1997; 27 years ago (1997) |
Typing discipline | Dynamic, weak |
Major implementations | |
Adobe PostScript, TrueImage, Ghostscript | |
Influenced by | |
Mesa,[1] Interpress, Lisp | |
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Quick Facts Filename extension, Internet media type ...
Filename extension |
.ps |
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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 |
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