`Print anything' software

  • Authors:
  • Tekla S. Perry

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The development history of the page description language PostScript is presented. Several key problems in the development are described: laser printer, a harbor simulation that drove the language-to-be toward its object orientation, font algorithm creation, and image reduction and analysis. Key technical developments that aided the establishment of PostScript are also mentioned; these include the Apple Macintosh microcomputer and its need for bit-mapped graphics printing, cheap laser printers, and cost declines in memory