Yes; I don't know if the Emacs thing was meant as a joke, but Postscript is human readable and if you need to generate a bunch of something relatively simple then just writing a script that spits out PS is often the easiest way to do it. I've used that approach for generating place-cards for a company dinner and for end-of-year tax receipts for a non-profit. That being said, it sounds like Inkscape is more what the OP is looking for. On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:15 PM mwilson--- via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
If you can write Forth, you can write PS.
I also generate PS with other programs.
Exactly. I'd used it as a poor-mans CAD package ( http://melwilsonsoftware.ca/psfiles/whitenoise-panel.ps ). It's an excellent way to get pixel-level control of printed matter, and that's around 1/300" on ink-jet printers. For my big use, membership cards from a database, it was Python program->Postscript program->Ghostscript rendering->printer. Your favorite HLL could replace Python.
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