Programming in Postscript
Bayard W. Wenzel
Tue Jan 5, Thu Jan 7, Tue Jan 12, Thu Jan 14, 05-06:00pm, 56-114
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Prereq: Familiarity with programming.
PostScript is the standard document formatting language for printers, and the forerunner to PDF, the Portable Document Format. This class will concentrate both on PostScript as a programming language, and PostScript's approach to rendering graphics. Additional topics will include the structure of PDF documents, font encoding, and font rendering. This class should provide a working understanding of stack machine programming, vector graphics, typography, and portable document encoding.
Web: http://sipb.mit.edu/iap/2010/postscript
Contact: Bayard Wenzel, sipb-iap-postscript@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Latest update: 05-Jan-2010
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