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This posting announces the release of a new version of Quikscript
and an editor for preparing Quikscript documents.
Quikscript is a PostScript text formatting and typesetting program.
It enables documents to be prepared on any type of hardware, using
visible layout marks to control the appearance of the output, and
produce output on a PostScript printer by despatching Qs and the
document file to the device. No processing is performed by the
host hardware; all processing is done within the printer.
Non-Postscript printers can be handled using a PostScript previewer
like ghostscript.
The advantage that Quikscript provides, other than portability,
is precision of control over output. Because it is written in
PostScript, it is interpreted at run-time within the printer.
It is possible to create documents that modify the Quikscript
program during execution. It is very easy to include other
PostScript programs or fragments with Quikscript. It is possible
to use special PostScript fonts, such as hand-generated ones.
Graphics generated from a variety of sources can be easily included,
as can text output from computer programs. It is possible to embed
Quikscript within an EPS document, such as an advertisement or an
invoice.
Quikscript documents can be prepared using any text editor. Alternatively,
an editor is provided with Quikscript, Qse, which some people find useful.
Qse is written in Java, so it should be portable to most platforms, provided
that a Java virtual machine is installed. Qse simplifies document preview
and printing, and has documentation built in through a help system.
The Quikscript distribution is available by anonymous ftp from
"ftp.adfa.edu.au" in the directory "pub/postscript". Qse can be
obtained from
ftp://ftp.adfa.edu.au/pub/postscript/Qse.jar
and there is a README file for both Quikscript and Qse in
ftp://ftp.adfa.edu.au/pub/postscript/Qs_README.html
Both Qs and Qse may also be accessed through the World Wide Web at URL
http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~gfreeman
(The FTP server will check your site first to verify that it is not a
target for a denial-of-service attack. If your ISP does not have the
reverse DNS tables set up correctly, the FTP request will fail. Contact
me if you have problems.)
Graham Freeman
g-freeman _at_ adfa.edu.au
2 January 2001
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Graham Freeman g-freeman _at_ adfa.edu.au
Department of Computer Science, Australian Defence Force Academy
Phone +61-2-6268 8186 Fax +61-2-6268 8581
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