Article: Understanding Postscripts
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Understanding Postscripts
Portable Document Format, or simply PDF, is a type of file format that is universally used for sharing and distributing files. A single PDF file may contain any type of multimedia elements like pictures, text, or sound. Yet, despite the complexities of PDF, one must keep in mind that it is only a subset of a computer language called Postscript.
Postscript, as earlier described, is a computer language ? or more accurately, a page description language -- optimized for printing graphics and text and run in an interpreter. Because Postscript is geared towards image production, it is the primary programming language used in the electronic and publishing areas.
History
The concept of postscript was first conceived by John Warnock, one of the pioneers ...
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