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 PostScript 3 logo | |
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: concatenative (stack-based), procedural |
|---|---|
| Designed by | John Warnock, Chuck Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, Bill Paxton |
| Developer | Adobe Systems |
| First appeared | 1982 |
| Stable release | PostScript 3
/ 1997 |
| Typing discipline | Dynamic, weak |
| Major implementations | |
| Adobe PostScript, TrueImage, Ghostscript | |
| Influenced by | |
| Mesa,[1] Interpress, Lisp | |
| Influenced | |
| Filename extension |
.ps |
|---|---|
| Internet media type |
application/postscript |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | com.adobe.postscript |
| Magic number | %! |
| Developed by | Adobe Systems |
| Type of format | printing file format |
| Extended to | Encapsulated PostScript |
PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.
- ^ Perry, T.S. (May 1988). "'PostScript' prints anything: a case history". IEEE Spectrum. 25 (5): 42–46. doi:10.1109/6.4550. S2CID 33376390.