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From: Mike Easter on 1 Jul 2008 16:36
RC?@Not.com wrote:
Subject: Post Script - What exactly is it and more important, what runs
it. Could us a bit of help. I have Googled, but need a little clairity.

<I suggest that > a good way to make a subject is last, after you have
created the message body, and make it very brief, like a title for your
message body, generally not a complete sentence, such as Post Script?

Those sentences in the subject belong down in the body.

> I downloaded a program with the extension .PS
> The place I got it said it was an image generator that ran in
> Postscript. My question is what is postscript. I Goggled it and it
> seems to be associated with Adobe, Photoshop I think.

<I suggest that> A good place to start (looking for something like that)
rather than google would be someplace like the wikipedia, but don't stop
there; but instead use it as a starting point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page
description language and programming language used primarily in the
electronic and desktop publishing areas.

> Is it a proprietary extension like LIT or DOC?
> Or, can a host of programs run this script?

..ps as a file extension can be run by such mac & win programs as Adobe's
programs, PhotoShop, ACDSee, printers (or other utilities) which can .ps
output.

> If so any suggestions? This would be something I will probably only
> run once so I don't want to by a program just to see what the script
> does. Any advice or suggestions?

You didn't mention your OS, but your newsreader is Agent which is win.

Ghostscript is a free crossplatform .ps interpreter and program suite.
You can 'wiki' it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript and its
website is here http://ghostscript.com/awki



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Mike Easter

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