Editing PostScript (section)

{{Short description|File format and programming language}}
{{Other uses|Postscript (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox programming language
| name = PostScript
| logo = Adobe PostScript 3 logo.svg
| logo size = 220px
| logo caption = PostScript 3 logo
| paradigm = [[Multi-paradigm programming language|Multi-paradigm]]: [[Concatenative programming language|concatenative]] ([[Stack-oriented programming|stack-based]]), [[Procedural programming|procedural]]
| year = {{Start date and age|1982}}
| designer = [[John Warnock]], [[Chuck Geschke]], Doug Brotz, Ed Taft, [[Bill Paxton (computer scientist)|Bill Paxton]]
| developer = [[Adobe Systems]]
| latest release version = PostScript 3
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|1997}}
| typing = Dynamic, weak
| implementations = Adobe PostScript, [[TrueImage]], [[Ghostscript]]
| influenced_by = [[Mesa (programming language)|Mesa]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Perry |first1=T.S. |title='PostScript' prints anything: a case history |journal=IEEE Spectrum |date=May 1988 |volume=25 |issue=5 |pages=42–46 |doi=10.1109/6.4550|s2cid=33376390 }}</ref> [[Interpress]], [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]
| influenced = [[Portable Document Format|PDF]]
}}
{{Infobox file format
| name          = PostScript (file format)
| extension     = .ps
| mime          = application/postscript
| uniform type  = com.adobe.postscript
| magic         = <code>%!</code>
| owner         = [[Adobe Systems]]
| genre         = printing file format
| extended to   = [[Encapsulated PostScript]]
}}

'''PostScript''' ('''PS''') is a [[page description language]] and [[type system|dynamically typed]], [[stack-oriented programming|stack-based programming language]]. It is most commonly used in the [[electronic publishing]] and [[desktop publishing]] realm, but as a [[Turing completeness|Turing complete]] programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well. PostScript was created at [[Adobe Systems]] by [[John Warnock]], [[Charles Geschke]], Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and [[Bill Paxton (computer scientist)|Bill Paxton]] from 1982 to 1984. The most recent version, PostScript 3, was released in 1997.