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I want to overlay some micrographs with labels (like A, B, C) and arrows to generate a multi-panel figure. Why not write a PostScript file by hand and put the binary image data in there? This should ...
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I'm using Ghostscript/Postscript to generate PDF files from PostScript source files. If I'm only using Ghostscript to generate PDF files as output, and if I'm never sending my source PostScript files ...
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I have some not-so-old PostScript programs that create an animation using the copypage operator. See a simple example below [*]. They worked fine in macOS using Preview and pstopdf while Apple ...
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I am trying to write a simple PostScript program to display a logo using the 'image' function (rather than the 'colorimage'). The PostScript code is very simple. I have tried reading the file, I have ...
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My initial problem was: How can I use my Mac's system fonts in a PostScript file; that is, a font that is NOT among the standard 35 (?) PostScript fonts. It is no longer my problem because I stumbled ...
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I have an old script from a few years ago I've been trying to migrate over to the latest version of Ghostscript. Its main job is to print checks. $AccountingScalingArgs = "<</BeginPage{0....
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From the official pdfmark documentation I copy-pasted into a file named example.ps: [ /NamespacePush pdfmark [ /_objdef {fstream} /type /stream /OBJ pdfmark [ {fstream} << /Type ...
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I use Ghostscript to create PDFs from PostScript files. Starting in June, there is an obligation to create accessible PDFs (PDF/UA-Standard). The closest related post how to make Accessibiity pdf from ...
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I'm working on a web application (Vue.js) that removes backgrounds from images. An important component is exporting EPS files with clipping paths that are correctly recognized in Adobe Photoshop. The ...
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I've been coding in PostScript for a couple of months, and I'm wondering how one would implement namespaces, and use libraries. As usual, the idea is to address: name collisions keeping separate ...
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Contrary to regular PostScript (PS) files, some comments in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file have a special meaning. For example, they must start with %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 and have a special %%...
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The pdf2dsc utility from Ghostscript generates a .dsc file consisting of a PostScript page list of a PDF document. How can such a file be distinguished from a real PostScript document? The issue is ...
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In PostScript, I'm trying to get a precise bounding box for rendered text. I believe I'm using the built-in PostScript operators correctly, but the results are unexpected. The outline doesn't match ...
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I'm trying to parse an Adobe Illustrator file, which in essence is a postscript file with additional comments for structure, it even starts with %PS-Adobe (after extracting it out of the PDF "...
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I'm using Ghostscript to convert PDF to PDF/A files, which works fine. I want to use the -dSAFER option, which forces me to use absolute path name for the ICCProfile in the file PDFA_def.ps: % in the ...

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