how do i write EPS and postScript programs?

Question

I am trying to write EPS scripts.

%!
100 100 moveto
/Symbol 12 selectfont (p ) show
/Times-Roman 12 selectfont (is less than 4) show

I suspect that beginning the script with %! is not correct, or sufficient. Unfortunately, I cannot find recent documentation, so I am unsure what eps scripts begin with.

You could argue that the question could be reworded to: "How do I write EPS and PostScript programs on Ubuntu?". As this was ask for in the Ubuntu form - I answered what was needed to do it on that platform. — jhilmer, Jun 12 '14 at 14:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '14 at 16:23

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Put the above lines in a file 'program.eps' and run the following command

evince program.eps

Evince will open up and render 'program.eps'. If you are missing 'evince' install it with:

sudo apt-get install evince

answered Feb 10 '14 at 16:23

jhilmer

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Cool! That works better than GhostView. – j0h Feb 10 '14 at 17:12

how do i write EPS and postScript programs?

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