Following Sections describe the contents of the subdirectories. Again, to view code or other files, you must browse a directory or subdirectory, by clicking on a Section-heading link.

PostScript/PS_cards_jar

Directory listing

PS_cards_jar
|-- 0README             obvious
|-- ila-valentine.ps    valentine: letters on tree graph; gen by S
|-- ila.35.ps           zipping "ILA" with message
|-- ilabirthday1.ps     zipping "ILA" with message
|-- ilavalentine_1994.ps    multiple hearts + message; gen by SGI showcase
|-- mama.ps             zipping "MAMA" with mini-message
|-- mom.99.ps           zipping "MOM" with message
|-- mother.ps           massive moving "MOTHER"
|-- ned.ps              massive moving "NED NELSON" with message
|-- retrospective.ps    cover sheet; gen by SGI showcase
|-- supermom.ps         massive moving "SUPERMOM"
|-- valentine.R
|   |-- 0postings
|   |   |-- valentine01         sources
|   |   `-- valentine02         comments on sources 
|   |-- valentine.ps        PS file from R src
|   `-- valentine.s         R code for valentine [Colin Goodall]
|-- valentine.net
|   |-- 0posting
|   |   `-- valentine.ps.net    sources 
|   |-- PSILoveYou.ps       valentine card [Anthony Stieber]
|   `-- valentine.ps        valentine image [neat code: Jonathan Monsarrat]
|-- wow.ps              zipping "WOW"
`-- wow1.ps             rotating and zipping "WOW"

Several images, some dynamic if viewed with gs or gv. Useful perhaps as cards, else as amusing images, or whatever....

Hand-written PostScript code:

message spirals toward viewer from lower left corner:

ila.35.ps    ilabirthday1.ps    mama.ps    mom.99.ps    wow.ps    wow1.ps

message in massive block letters that grow diagonally from frame bottom:

mother.ps    ned.ps    supermom.ps

valentine card -- by Anthony Stieber

valentine.net/PSILoveYou.ps

valentine image -- neat code -- by Jonathan Monsarrat

valentine.net/valentine.ps

PostScript Code generated by graphics apps;

valentine with letters at tips of a computer-generated tree -- S & Acrobat

ila-valentine.ps

multiple hearts with message -- SGI showcase

ilavalentine_1994.ps

cover sheet -- SGI showcase

retrospective.ps

heart with arrow and message -- valentine.s & R -- by Colin Goodall

valentine.R/valentine.ps

PostScript/draft

Directory listing

draft
|-- 0README                 obvious
|-- draft-awk               awk: put "DRAFT" in PS page background
|-- draft-perl              perl: orig source - Kevin O. Grover  
|-- draft.1                 man page
|-- test_eps.mm-draft.ps    demo: "DRAFT" as large-letter background
`-- test_eps.mm.ps          input for demo: <test_eps.mm.ps draft >....

To print a tastefully light, large font, diagonal watermark on each page of a manuscript, use either the original perl script, draft-perl, by Kevin O. Grover, or the awk script derived from it, draft-awk:

        draft-[awk,perl] filepath.ps >filepath-draft.ps

For sample input and output files see test_eps.mm.ps and test_eps.mm-draft.ps.

The man page is draft.1

PostScript/graphpaper

Directory listing

graphpaper
|-- 0README             obvious
|-- 0postings
|   |-- Readme-logpaper.html    by Shamim Mohamed <shamim@cs.arizona.edu>
|   |-- Readme-mmpapier.html    by Thomas Landgraf <tl@hrz.uni-kassel.de>
|   |-- logpaper.ps.orig        from posting for indicated program
|   `-- mmpapier.ps.orig        from posting for indicated program
|-- gridpaper.ps        simple output - useful for sketch-type plots
|-- logpaper.ps         customizable coordinate, semi-log or log-log paper
`-- mmpapier.ps         customizable coordinate paper

Three PS programs that generate a sheet of graph paper:

gridpaper.ps -- a simple output - useful for sketch-type plots

logpaper.ps -- customizable coordinate, semi-log or log-log paper

mmpapier.ps -- customizable coordinate paper

PostScript/periodic

Directory listing

periodic
|-- 0README          obvious
|-- 0posting
|   `-- README           README from posting by Eric A. Howe
`-- periodic.ps      generate periodic table

Sometimes one needs a periodic table, especially those who like myself are chemists.

Best to do a Google search, and click on what appeals.

Easier than going to an old text, etc.

But how clever to have written your own:

I needed a periodic table one day when I was at work (all our machines are named after elements and I got a new one) so I hunted around the net looking for a Postscript one; I couldn't find one so the next day I bought the Postscript reference manual and wrote my own.

Eric A. Howe
--mu@tlug.reptiles.org

The result, of course, is periodic.ps.

PostScript/other

Directory listing

other
`-- 0README        the content below 

All files of type "ps" are programs, including files that are generated by a word processor for formatted text, or by Photoshop for images.

Some PostScript programs function like conventional utilites and thus deserve comment:

The program "prfonts.ps" can generate a list of fonts in a font library. This and other PostScript-language programs part of the Ghostscript distribution are (for this machine) in the directory:

        /usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.00/lib

They are described in the html page (for this machine):

        file:///usr/local/share/ghostscript/8.00/doc/Psfiles.htm

 

Various PostScript-language programs, some utilities, most generating images, are given as examples in the:

        PostScript language tutorial and cookbook
        Adobe Systems Incorporated 
        Reading, MA : Addison Wesley, 1985
        ISBN 0-201-10179-3 (pbk.)

The examples are isolated in the web-page:

        http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/ps/bluebook/

which also has a pointer to the Adobe Systems ftp site for download of the Blue Book.

 

Browse the newsgroup:

        comp.lang.postscript