Comments on: PostScript

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:23:22 +0000

Hey, Simon, I got the same problem here. I guess you’re using MacOS X as like as I do. I solved using Komodo Edit, a freeware text editor, that is able to save as Postscript file, highlighting syntax and showing values in various colors.
Hope this may help you.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:51:58 +0000

If you want to put code in to Textedit on Mac OS X you need to make sure it is set to plain text note RTF.

You can set the default in preferences I think although I’m on a PC so can’t check right now.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:11:18 +0000

Hi Rick

Hmm - haven’t really pushed the limits like you have! If you can mail me a file that won’t open in Illustrator, I’ll have a play around. There are other programs that will open .ps files by the way - Apple Preview on the Mac for one, but also GhostView/GSView might be worth a try; http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

By: Rick Weiss

Rick Weiss — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:53:52 +0000

Hi Simon,
Awesome! Thanks for making this available. I was able to copy the postscript text from Simon’s web page into an application called Editra that I downloaded from VersionTracker for Mac OS, (it’s free) then save that as .ps document. Those opened fine in Illustrator CS3 if the object was fairly simple. If the rendering on the web site was complex I kept getting an error message in Illustrator saying couldn’t open for an unknown reason when I tried to open the .ps file. Any suggestions for getting a more complex object to open?

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:52:42 +0000

Adam - no idea what’s wrong there. Does it help if you enable ’show all file extensions’ in the Finder preferences? Can you try just saving the file and then rename it in the Finder?

By: Adam Follett

Adam Follett — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:39:03 +0000

Hi Simon
I’ve tried to copy the postscript code into TextEdit, as you suggest, but it won’t let me save with a .ps suffix.

Any tips as to what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks
Adam

By: bruno

bruno — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:32:41 +0000

wonderful, thank you.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:12:51 +0000

Hi bruno - yes there is, that's how the original works on the Generation Press website. You just need your own variation on the following (excuse the short var names!):

//insert at end of begin() function

// circle radii - edit these
_r1 = 42;
_r2 = 50;
_rp = 58;

// set up the system
xc = _r1 + _r2;
yc = 0;
xp = xc + _rp;
yp = 0;		
this["circle1"]._visible = false;
_status = DRAWING;				
initDraw();

By: bruno

bruno — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:41:01 +0000

lovely. is there a way to pre input the values so that the resulting flash animation runs without user imput?

By: MsBrittle

MsBrittle — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:22:09 +0000

That rocks! I am going to give it a go.