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postscript

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post⋅script

  [pohst-skript, pohs-]
–noun
1. a paragraph, phrase, etc., added to a letter that has already been concluded and signed by the writer.
2. any addition or supplement, as one appended by a writer to a book to supply further information.
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Origin:
1515–25; < L postscrīptum, neut. ptp. of postscrībere to write after

Post⋅Script

  [pohst-skript, pohs‑]
Trademark.
a page description language using scalable fonts that can be printed on a variety of appropriately equipped devices, including laser printers and professional-quality imagesetters.
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post·script   (pōst'skrĭpt', pōs'skrĭpt')   
n.   Abbr. PS

  1. A message appended at the end of a letter after the writer's signature.

  2. Additional information appended to the manuscript, as of a book or article.


[Medieval Latin *postscrīptum, from neuter past participle of Latin postscrībere, to write after : post-, post- + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.]
Post·Script   (pōst'skrĭpt')   
A trademark used for an object-oriented computer language for describing the appearance and layout of documents, used to print high-resolution text and graphics.
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Word Origin & History

postscript 
1523, from L. post scriptum "written after," from neuter pp. of L. postscribere "write after," from post "after" + scribere "to write" (see script).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

PostScript language, text, graphics
A page description language based on work originally done by John Gaffney at Evans and Sutherland in 1976, evolving through "JaM" ("John and Martin", Martin Newell) at XEROX PARC, and finally implemented in its current form by John Warnock et al. after he and Chuck Geschke founded Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1982.
PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based language (like FORTH). It was used as a page description language by the Apple LaserWriter, and now many laser printers and on-screen graphics systems. Its primary application is to describe the appearance of text, graphical shapes, and sampled images on printed or displayed pages.
A program in PostScript can communicate a document description from a composition system to a printing system in a device-independent way.
PostScript is an unusually powerful printer language because it is a full programming language, rather than a series of low-level escape sequences. (In this it parallels Emacs, which exploited a similar insight about editing tasks). It is also noteworthy for implementing on-the fly rasterisation, from Bezier curve descriptions, of high-quality fonts at low (e.g. 300 dpi) resolution (it was formerly believed that hand-tuned bitmap fonts were required for this task).
PostScript's combination of technical merits and widespread availability made it the language of choice for graphical output until PDF appeared.
The Postscript point, 1/72 inch, is slightly different from other point units.
An introduction.
["PostScript Language Reference Manual" ("The Red Book"), Adobe Systems, A-W 1985].
[The Jargon File]
(2002-03-11)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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