Everything about PostScript

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PostScriptA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: CME: Light Therapy: Why, What, for Whom, How, and When (And a Postscript about Darkness)Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Stop stealing sheep & find out how type worksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: ESPript: analysis of multiple sequence alignments in PostScript.Cited 2,688 times
5. Go sideways: LaserWriterA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Desktop publishingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• ESPript: analysis of multiple sequence alignments in PostScript.

  P Gouet, E Courcelle, D I Stuart · 1999 · Bioinformatics · 2,688 citations

• The Distinctive Challenge of Educating Social Entrepreneurs: A Postscript and Rejoinder to the Special Issue on Entrepreneurship Education

  Paul Tracey, Nelson Phillips · 2007 · Academy of Management Learning & Education · 309 citations

• Diet and heart: a postscript.

  J N Morris, J W Marr, D G Clayton · 1977 · BMJ · 301 citations

• Rapid Decision Making on the Fire Ground: The Original Study Plus a Postscript

  Gary Klein, Roberta Calderwood, Anne Clinton-Cirocco · 2010 · Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making · 217 citations

• Postscript to the Special Issue: Governing Life by Standards

  Laurent Thévenot · 2009 · Social Studies of Science · 181 citations

• A postscript: code-switching and social identity

  Peter Auer · 2005 · Journal of Pragmatics · 135 citations

• Except-Africa: Postscript to a special section on development narratives

  Emery M. Roe · 1995 · World Development · 116 citations

• Postscript: A Theory of Access Revisited

  Nancy Lee Peluso, Jesse Ribot · 2020 · Society & Natural Resources · 90 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• CME: Light Therapy: Why, What, for Whom, How, and When (And a Postscript about Darkness)

  Anna Wirz-Justice, Michael Terman · 2022 · Praxis · 12 citations

• Radiation-Chemical Perspective of the Radiobiology of Pulsed (High Dose-Rate) Radiation (FLASH): A Postscript

  Peter Wardman · 2023 · Radiation Research · 7 citations

• Postscript: Four Ways Race and Capitalism Can Advance Urban Sociology

  Robert Vargas · 2022 · City & Community · 6 citations

• Author’s Postscript: Update on the Guidance of the “Amendments to the Act of the Protection of Personal Information” for Japanese Medical Facilities in May, 2022

  Soichiro Saeki · 2022 · Journal of Epidemiology · 4 citations

• Postscript to Invertebrate Welfare: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

  William Winlow, Jennifer Mather, Anna Di Cosmo · 2024 · Animals · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Stop stealing sheep & find out how type worksErik Spiekermann, E.M Ginger · 1993
• The LaTex graphics companionMichel Goossens · 1997
• Understanding PostScript programmingDavid A. Holzgang · 1987
• Mathematical IllustrationsBill Casselman · 2004
• The Postscript font handbookJonathan Grosvenor · 1992
• PostScript programmer's reference guideDavid A. Holzgang · 1989
• The PostScript typeface libraryTony Esposito · 1994
• The designer's guide to PostScript text typeJean Callan King · 1993

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

• LaserWriter The LaserWriter is a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter sold by Apple, Inc. from 1985 to 1988. It was one of the first laser printers available…
• Desktop publishing Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using dedicated software on a personal ("desktop") computer. It was first used almost exclusively…
• Page description language In digital printing, a page description language (PDL) is a computer language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an…
• Ghostscript Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages…
• PostScript fonts PostScript fonts are font files encoded in outline font specifications developed by Adobe for professional digital typesetting. This system uses the PostScript…
• PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1993 used to present documents, including text formatting…
• Display PostScript Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language to generate on-screen…
• Fonts on Macintosh Apple's Macintosh computer supports a wide variety of fonts. This support was one of the features that initially distinguished it from other systems. The…