Printing Desktop Publishing

Art and Design Linda Olliver, Director Printing and Production Catherine Lorrain-Hale, Director Nguyet Tran, Assistant Production Manager Jack Parker, Desktop Publishing Specialist... 

PostScript. PostScript is a page description language developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Today, most word processors and desktop publishing systems support PostScript as one of their output formats. Most laser printers and many document production systems support PostScript as input. An extension of PostScript, called encapsulated PostScript, creates an output format which can be imported into some document production systems as a way of integrating information from different systems. PostScript is not strictly an interchange format, since the imported material in encapsulated PostScript cannot be edited, merely printed. This may change in the future. 

The following subset dictionaries have been published in recent years from the Chapman Hall/ CRC database, and are intended as desktop references for the specialist worker. Now published by CRC Press each (except the older titles) consists of a large, single-volume printed dictionary accompanied by a fully searchable CD-ROM uniform in format and search capabilities (including substructure searching) with the main database. A new interface for text and structure searching by ChemAxon was released in 2009. 

The profusion of original papers is so great that publications that merely list the titles of current papers find much use. Such lists are primarily methods of alerting the chemist to useful papers published in journals that they do not normally read. This approach, using print versions containing lists or journals and articles, is not used much nowadays. Most journals are available on-line, and many have the original papers, with supplemental material, as HTML and pdf documents. The pdf document can be downloaded to the searcher s desktop, usually for a fee, and is... 

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