Java Postscript interpreter!
Update: Then name of the interpreter is IPS, and it has a home of its own on the web at http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca:8093/index.html.
Finally, after year(s?) of intermittent but serious searching, I found a free Java implementation of a Postscript interpreter; cf http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/, for a link at the bottom of the page to the code and user manual. Relevant page excerpt:
Scott Drader has written a PostScript interpreter in Java, using the Java 5.0 2D library, that allows interaction as programs are being run. This includes being able to step through a PostScript program, setting breaks and variable watches. The present version is still a bit slow and buggy, but worth looking into. Problems should by all means be reported to cass@math.ubc.ca.
I hope it’s better than Toastscript– the Java-based Postscript Level 1 interpreter that Google returns in response to all searches that seems to have completely disappeared off the Internet. I haven’t figured out how to use it yet, much less taken a good look at the code. One cool feature though, after downloading the jar— I think this is a relatively new feature of the jar file format–, you can run it off the Windows desktop by double clicking. I haven’t figured out how to load images yet. Come to think of it, I completely forgot I downloaded the manual; guess I should read it.
Possibly relevant posts:
- The sad reality of Scheme (3/11/2005)
- Scheming out loud (2/22/2005)
- Java does Regular Expressions (1/8/2005)