PostScript [Web and XML Glossary] (original) (raw)

PostScript

PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based Programming Language. Its primary application is to describe the appearance of text, graphics, and images on printed or displayed pages. A program in PostScript can communicate a document description from a composition system to a printing system in a device-independent way. PostScript is an unusually powerful printer language because it is a full programming language, rather than a series of low-level escape sequences. The latest version of PostScript, version 3, fully integrates PDF.

Type Associations

• Topic(s) from which this Topic is derived:
  • Graphics Format
  • Image Format
  • Programming Language
  • Text Format

Associations

• PostScript is used as a base by
  • EPS · SPDL
• PostScript has been standardized by
  • Adobe

Mentioned in...

PDF · PGML · Type 1

Additional Information

• Topic Creation: 2000-06-15; HTML Creation: 2012-01-22, 07:00:09
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