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PostScript. %! PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it can be used for many other purposes as well.
Traditionally, to go from PostScript to PDF, a source PostScript file (that is, an executable program) is used as the basis for generating PostScript-like PDF code (see, e.g., Adobe Distiller). This is done by applying standard compiler techniques like loop unrolling , inlining and removing unused branches, resulting in code that is purely ...
Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems ' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization or rendering of such page description language [4] files, for the display or printing of document pages, and the conversion between PostScript and PDF ...
Encapsulated PostScript ( EPS) is a Document Structuring Convention (DSC) conforming PostScript document format usable as a graphics file format. The format was developed as early as 1987 by John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, the founders of Adobe, together with Aldus. [1] The basis of early versions of the Adobe Illustrator Artwork file format is ...
Type 1 (also known as PostScript, PostScript Type 1, PS1, T1 or Adobe Type 1) is the font format for single-byte digital fonts for use with Adobe Type Manager software and with PostScript printers. It can support font hinting . It was originally a proprietary specification, but Adobe released the specification to third-party font manufacturers ...
Page description language. In digital printing, a page description language ( PDL) is a computer language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap (or generally raster graphics ). An overlapping term is printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL).
The PostScript Standard Encoding (often spelled StandardEncoding, aliased as PostScript [1]) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems ' PostScript (PS) since 1984. [2] In 1995, IBM assigned code page 1276 ( CCSID 1276) to this character set. [3] [4] NeXT based the character set for its NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP ...
Adobe Distiller. Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a software application for converting documents from PostScript format to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), the native format of the Adobe Acrobat family of products. [1] It was first shipped as a component of Acrobat in 1993. [2] Acrobat 4, in 1999, added preset configuration files to Distiller ...