PostScript Language and the Implementation of Its Interpreter

Adobe System Inc.'s PostScript language is a page description language with powerful text and graphics capabilities, which is designed to deal with the raster output devices. Postscript language has become a "de facts" standard of the output description for high quality hard copy. This paper introduces the features of this language briefly and discusses the methods and techniques, including stack management facilities, memory allocation, and text and graphics processing, which are used in the interpreter—PS.