MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2013



Programming in PostScript

Bayard W. Wenzel

Jan/25 Fri 07:00PM-08:00PM 4-237
Jan/28 Mon 05:00PM-06:00PM 4-237
Jan/30 Wed 05:00PM-06:00PM 4-237
Feb/01 Fri 05:00PM-06:00PM 4-237

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants requested to attend all sessions
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.

Sponsor(s): Student Information Processing Board, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Contact: Bayard Wenzel, sipb-iap-postscript@mit.edu