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In article <1992Aug24.023510.25470@cs.brown.edu> jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) writes:
>Is there a "PostScript Compiler" that generates compressed PS from
>big ol' whitespace-filled long-named PS?

Do you have a C compiler available?  Use its preprocessor to macro-
substitute short names for long ones.  To use your example:

/d /def load def
#define def d

#define MyFunctionMapper  A
#define elvis 		  e
/* etc.... */ 

% This function does some cool stuff
/MyFunctionMapper
{
  /elvis 2 def 	% etc....
  /jackson elvis manilow add berry add def
  jackson
} bind def

After C pre-processing you'd have:

/d /def load def
% This function does some cool stuff
/A
{
  /e 2 d 	% etc....
  /j e m add b add d
  j
} bind d

PackPS could then get rid of the comments and whitespace for you.
I've used this technique on a major PostScript language project and it has 
worked great!

	--Jim DeLaHunt, Developer Support, Adobe Systems Incorporated	
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