Revision as of 05:50, 10 July 2002 edit The Anome (talk \| contribs) Edit filter managers, Administrators 260,095 edits *Apple's OS X operating system now makes use of a similar imaging model to Display PostScript, but does not have the same level of programmability. ← Previous edit		Revision as of 10:26, 10 July 2002 edit undo 216.94.11.2 (talk) No edit summary Next edit →
Line 1: [[NeXT\|NeXT Computer Inc.]] designed '''Display PostScript''' for their series of Unix-based personal computers starting around 1987. Display PostScript was developed with (or given to) Adobe, and made an official [[Adobe]] product with its own standards documents and licensing requirements. Display PostScript is a fairly limited expansion on the original [[PostScript]] language. The main addition is the ability to map coordinate systems and update the display "on the fly", which is needed in an interactive enviornment. Normal PostScript only updates when the PS code calls ''~~showPage~~showpage'', typically at the end of a document. It also introduced the concept of a "pswrap", which allowed developers to wrap PostScript code into a C language function which could then be called from an application. DPS did not, however, add a windowing system. That was left to the implementation to provide, and DPS was meant to be used in conjunction with an existing windowing engine. This was often the [[X Window System]], and in this form Display PostScript was later adopted by companies such as [[IBM]] and [[SGI]] for their workstations.

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