PostScript (.ps)
Open BetaPostScript（.ps）は、Adobeによるページ記述言語で、PDFの前身です。学術出版におけるプリプレスおよびアーカイブの標準であり、数千ものプリンターやRIPサーバーで対応しています。LaTeXのパイプライン（dvips → ps2pdf）や、編集可能なベクター地図レイアウトを長期アーカイブとして保管するのに最適です。
主な機能
PostScriptフォーマットについて
PostScript is a page description language invented by Adobe in the early 1980s; PDF grew directly out of it. A .ps file is, in essence, a small program executed by the interpreter inside a printer or a RIP server: it draws vector outlines, text and raster inserts. Level 3 is still understood by office and print-shop devices, and the free Ghostscript opens such a file on any operating system.
An OpenStreetMap map is exported to PostScript when the result goes into a printing or archival pipeline: hand it to a print shop, put it on a RIP, keep the layout in editable vector form for years ahead. For on-screen viewing the format is awkward — usually a .ps is first turned into a PDF with a single command.
Here is how the file is built on our side: QGIS draws the sheet in vector, the labels stay as text with embedded fonts, and then Ghostscript converts the result into PostScript Level 3 with a standard DSC structure. The sheet is 297x210 mm by default (A4 in landscape orientation), raster elements are 300 DPI. PostScript has no layers by the design of the format itself: the map arrives as a single stream of vector commands.
PostScriptファイルを開けるプログラム
次のプログラムおよびアプリケーションは、OSM2CDRからエクスポートしたPostScript (.ps)（.ps）ファイルを開き、編集し、利用できます：
Format specifications
- Open standard
- 2D only
- Lossless (no quality loss)
- No attributes
- Output: 1 file
- PostScript Level 3. Page-description language for printers; open with Ghostscript or convert to PDF for viewing.
PostScript地図を利用するユーザー
PostScriptのエクスポート方法
エクスポート後の開き方
- Ghostscript (free) — both viewing and conversion: ps2pdf map.ps map.pdf gives you a PDF, and calling gs with -r300 rasterizes the sheet at the resolution you need.
- GSview on Windows or Evince on Linux — open the .ps directly and look at the page without converting it.
- Adobe Distiller — the regular prepress route: PostScript in, PDF with font and color control out.
- A print shop or a RIP server — the file is handed over as is; agree on the sheet size and margins in advance, otherwise the map will be trimmed at the edge.
- LaTeX — for pdflatex convert the file to PDF with ps2pdf and insert it with the usual includegraphics; in the classic latex + dvips pipeline EPS is more common for illustrations, and you can download that from us too.
PostScriptの人気地図
PostScript (.ps)の地図エクスポートを入手
OpenStreetMapからプロフェッショナルなPostScript地図をダウンロード。即時生成、任意の範囲に対応。