Huh. I knew that Postscript support had been (foolishly) removed from macOS' Preview.app, but apparently at some point after that the pstopdf converter was removed as well. I used to use this to read manpages in a nicer format than a Terminal window.

Oddly, man -t ps (i.e., output Postscript) still works fine; there's just no built-in way to open the result.

#macos #postscript

PostScript Level 1 was pretty simple as languages go. PostScript Level 2 added a whole bunch of stuff, including color and garbage collection and a bunch more operators.

Display PostScript can be based on either Level 1 or Level 2. To my knowledge no DPS on Level 1 ever shipped.

Anyway yeah. When you really read the spec, essentially everything in Level 2 is also in DPS. Saying you could base an implementation on Level 1 is technically true but a lie of omission.

#postscript #programming

I'm playing a game of #chess with an engine
written in #PostScript and the output of the
game it's both in the terminal and PDF files.

I'm not kidding:

https://github.com/nst/PSChess/

OpenLetter...

#DearNHSEngland,

#ThankYouSoMuch for everything you do for me and #YourLittleElves, too...

I'm #ReallyExpensive and you definitely treat me like #Royalty

#IFeelProtectedInYourHands

#LoveAndKisses,

#Aud-Group

#PostScript / #PS: #TrustInNHS