Postscript?!?! (was ASM-1 homepage improvement!)

[KA4HJH]

>The nice thing about this approach is the type of control you have
>over the schematic -- "I want a transistor to look like *this*".  Then
>later you can say, "no wait a second, it'd be better if a transistor
>looked like *this*" and all the transistors are updated.  If you have
>schematic objects dependent upon other objects (ie., postscript
>subroutines) they get updated too.  Schematic objects can draw
>dependant upon given parameters.  Positioning can be done correctly
>too; "place this resistor 2.4 inches north of the collector terminal
>of that transistor", that sort of thing.

I've been using Adobe Illustrator for this for years, but never went so far
as to do it directly in PostScript. Don Lancaster did everything for years
on an Apple ][ connected to a LaserWriter via the game port (software uart).

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"