Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

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People must really love PostScript!

This is pretty sweet. I wonder if this is better than running pdf.js.

I just recently needed jbig2 image support in my web app and using pdf.js wasn't gonna work and be too slow and the wrong interface anyway, so I took the source code for the jbig2 decoder and vibe coded a converter that outputs 1 bit pngs. After some manual culling of code I got the wasm module down to 27kb with no glue.

Dropped a .ps in there, it's just stuck "rendering".

But does it say "PC LOAD LETTER"?

Wonderful.

Sun NeWS in the browser would be cool as well.

postscript hacks are fun! the encryption on Type 1 fonts in 1987 was broken by Harvey Grosser, an ex-IBM System 360 coder, in Palo Alto. NeWS was bad NeWS to many, with a minuscule user base at its peak. Meanwhile, every print publication in existence was faced with "do or die" in digital production. Many ended with the latter, many years later.

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How much does a subscription for this website costs per month? After all it says Adobe in the title.