Sample PostScript files and fragments

May 8th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Technologies, PostScript

Sample PostScript files and fragments

These files are not necessarily good examples of PostScript coding. They are included because I have found them useful at times.

• A color cube to test color printers.
• A PostScript Error handler.
• The Fermilab logo as an EPS file.
• A `blessed’ description of the Fermilab Logo.
• How to obtain interpreter’s font list.
• A PostScript program with random behavior. This file takes several minutes to execute. It is a 300 000 dots scattergram.
• A PostScript program which makes random eyecharts.
• A graph paper generator.
• An attempt to obtain a printer’s PPD.
• A printer resolution test.
• Tiger, another color printer test.
• Several ways to draw 2 parallel lines
• Why `White Out(tm)’ does not work!
• 90 degree rotation of an American letter sized page
  90 rotate 0 -612 translate
• A4 to American letter paper
  26 0 translate .9397 dup scale
• American letter to A4 paper
  0 36 translate .9727 dup scale

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