Postscript edit identifier highlighting.
Postscript edit identifier highlighting.
- Subject: Postscript edit identifier highlighting.
- From: Julie Porter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:33:02 -0700
Last spring I wrote asking about opening postscript programs in X code
for editing. The answer was to create a project and switch the info
type to plain text (I use C source so I can use the tools that balance
braces and indent code.)
I still find this annoying as postscript is a programming language.
While I do not use it as much as when I worked for Apple Imaging in the
1990s I am finding with the macports ghostscript plugin that I am more
comfortable writing in the language that I am familiar with for image
processing.
My programs are quite complex which use the filter streams of the
language to apply FFT and other convolution filters to images. Early
versions of these were used when I wrote some of the LaserWriter test
suites that emulated the JPG DCT filters on the level 1 printers. I
also did on my own time at home using that technology Stereo 3D ranging
and photogrametric reconstructions from uncalibrated imaging.
I also did some consulting assisting some friends with the use of
Postscript to control Weaving of fabric through hand and powered looms.
(Not sure if this is still true but in the 1990s a lot of the looms used
for cloth production were controlled by postscript.)
Much of this can be done with Cocoa/Quartz, but I am finding there is
too much overhead and I spend too much dealing with the frustration of
not having direct access to the raw data bits or objects. It is a
different mindset. I think that most of us who tend to use postscript
are a bit iconoclast. That there does not seem to be any online
groups that deal with the advanced levels of the language. The basics
of the language are easy to grasp and quickly dismissed.
I tend to work these days with microcontrollers and spend more time
debugging the UI than processing the data.
Perhaps I a remembering stuff from the MPW days, But there was a method
at one time that I used to use that highlighted the language syntax.
Is there a way to add in PostScript language highlighting to the
editor? It also looks like I might even be able to access ghost-script
(gs) as a sort of build too directly from the IDE.
I have set up a github account and It would be nice to be able to use
version control on some of my programs. I have recently discovered the
KiCad Printed Circuit design tool, and postscript seems to work well
filtering layout between DXF,PDF and Gerber. I am also considering
using this to replace some of the perl scripts used with the Reprap
project.
My goal here is to use postscript to drive a 3D FDM printer.
-julie
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