Hypertext PostScript 3 Operators Reference Manual
As everybody knows PostScript language is defined in PLRM.pdf (PostScript Language Reference Manual). It is a big and exhaustive document, a book actually. I felt the lack of a usable online/interactive help for PS. So, here you are - pdfmarks that may make PLRM.pdf Chapter 8 "Operators" hypertextual and bookmarked.
Adobe let freely download versions of PLRM.pdf for many years, but it has a clear notice:
© 1985–1999 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.
NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
No part of this publication (whether in hardcopy or electronic form) may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher.
So without express permission from Adobe the source PLRM.pdf nor possibly augmented with pdfmarks HPORM.pdf cannot be shared.
I am not responsible for how anyone would use these pdfmarks. They are under the MIT license. The content of the maker directory is under the GPL license.
Get:
- PLRM.pdf - must be in the working dir. At least read a second page of it - the book must be "PostScript language reference manual / Adobe Systems Incorporated. - 3rd ed." of a year 1999.
- GhostScript PS interpreter - install it and if installed gswin32c.exe is not in PATH - you may just copy it from c:\Program Files\gs\gs9.15\bin\ to the working dir.
- markingALLstep1.bat should produce interim PORM & C pdfs
- markingALLstep2.bat produces HPORM.pdf. IMPORTANT: such HPORM.pdf will have some hyperlinks to PLRM.pdf (from PLRM.pdfmarksLNK2.ps)!
Alternatively, to add hyperlinks to the operators reference in the original big PLRM.pdf only markingMIN.bat may be ran instead:
- markingMIN.bat produces HPLRM.pdf.
Everything may be adapted to POSIX without problem. Theoretically any PDF producing PS interpreter may be used instead of GhostScript.
Example of Notepad++ with SumatraPDF
SumatraPDF is the best fit for using PDF for interactive help, because it is free, small and fast. Edit shortcuts.xml of Notepad++ and add to UserDefinedCommands:
<Command name="PS Help"
Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="112"
>"C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe"
-reuse-instance
-view "continuous single page"
-zoom "fit width"
-named-dest $(CURRENT_WORD)
D:\HPORM.pdf
</Command>http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Editing_Configuration_Files
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Command-line-arguments.html
maker directory contains files that generate pdfmarks to output subdirectory. But pdfmarks in the root directory although so generated have not escaped a bit of human touch. Generation is based on the PS interpreter output filtering by the font properties through the family of overridden show operators.