@ics

For me, it was during a lull in my workload at the #IBM Hursley lab in the UK when I worked my way through the O'Reilly #sed & #awk book (the one with the two lorises on the cover).

I'm guessing it was 1995 because my annual birdwatching summary at the start of the next year switched from a fixed column text document to formatting in #Postscript. My first big awk project was to process the underlying data to generate a PS document (something I also learned in the same downtime period).

@0x2ba22e11 @uastronomer ad now you know why I only deploy #Xerox cuz they at least give a shit and provide #PostScript support, drivers from MS-DOS & OS/2 to Linux and from A/UX to Solaris and worst-case support print from & scan to USB, eMail, SMB & FTP…

• Only better are like #OKI needle-printers, but those are loid and exoensive...

@neauoire @raph This page has even big PS code chunks in it! Not using Cornu spirals, but cool to see PS in the wild.

PS - the dynamic render was not Java2D + #Scala2
it was plain old (hand-rolled) #CPlusPlus using #Poco and #OpenFrameworks

https://pocoproject.org/

https://openframeworks.cc/

(the main reason I was using Java was the Oracle java sdk had a fully licensed adobe #pdf / #postscript / #opentype stack, and was the simplest route to press-quality correct high DPI renders on linux. there's more options today I expect)