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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

From the official pdfmark documentation I copy-pasted into a file named example.ps: [ /NamespacePush pdfmark [ /_objdef {fstream} /type /stream /OBJ pdfmark [ {fstream} << /Type ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 %%...

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 ...

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 ...

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 "...

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 ...

I am not sure I understand the semantics of Postscript dictionaries. What is the difference if a 'def' is used when defining an entry to a dictionary as opposed to just listing the key value pair. ...