Generate Postscript from other formats 

Forum: U Chicago, Com Sci 221 old messages, autumn 2000
Re: .ps in homework (dave)
Date: 2000, Sep 29
From: Mike O'Donnell <odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu>

I'm not aware of any good editors that manipulate Postscript directly. In principle, you could use any text editor, since Postscript is encoded in ASCII. But that would be very impractical. Postscript is usually compiled automatically from other more transparent formats. People doing research in math, CS, and a number of other branches of science tend to use LaTeX, a layout language that compiles into beautiful Postscript typeset pages. LaTeX is particularly good at laying out mathematical formulae. It is well worth learning some day, but you might not want to learn it under pressure of an assignment deadline. There is a GUI front end for LaTeX, called Lyx, that is a lot like a word processor, with some very interesting differences. I use Lyx for some documents, but I find it still a bit experimental and flakey, so I only recommend it to those who like to try out immature applications. Lots of word processors can export Postscript, and there are also separate programs around that translate from some word-processor formats to Postscript. I hope that people who have used such things will comment on them. Mike O'D.

Messages

1. How can i generate postscript by ub98aa@cosc.brocku.ca, 2000, Oct 31

(_ pdf2ps by Jake Bartolone, 2000, Nov 08

to: "Generate Postscript from other formats"