ANSWERS TO POSTSCRIPT EXERCISES
1. (a) Draws an "X".
(b) Same thing.
(c) Same thing.
2. %!
200 200 moveto
0 100 rlineto
150 300 moveto
100 0 rlineto
stroke showpage
3. (a)
(b) PostScript error. Following the command "stroke" or "fill", the
pen is picked up and turtle forgets its position. You need to
issue a moveto command to start drawing again.
4. (a) You can avoid messy geometric calculations by using rotate.
(b) This is a tricky one because we start drawing again while the
net rotation is 90 degrees counterclockwise.
5. There's alot to PostScript that you certainly don't need to worry about. This
example uses "repeat" and "for" to loop, "arc" to draw circles segments, and
"eofill" to alternately fills in the even and odd regions.