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Introduction to Bézier Curve 04 “PostScript”

PostScript is called the page description language; it is a programming language developed by Adobe to define data for printing. As a familiar example, the internal structure of a PDF is based on PostScript.

As a lot of the outline information of OpenType fonts is described in PostScript, it is a necessary format in font engineering.

As an example, saving the following code with the “.ps” extension and opening with Adobe Illustrator, etc. allows you to check the rendering content.

As an example, saving the following code with the “.ps” extension and opening with Adobe Illustrator, etc. allows you to check the rendering content.

%! %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842 newpath 100 100 moveto 100 200 lineto 200 200 lineto 200 100 lineto closepath stroke showpage

If you would like more detailed specifications, please refer to the document below:
https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf
(Path Construction Operators on page 518)

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