December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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As sort of a section summary, the material in this chapter concentrates on PostScript be-
cause it produces a high-quality printed page on virtually any output device, and because
the most commonly available outline fonts are in PostScript format. Perhaps of more im-
portance is the fact that these other typesetting and page-description languages have the
ability to generate PostScript.
The Role of Printer Drivers
Whenever a document is to be printed, there is mandatory interaction with soware
called a printer driver. e printer driver communicates with the printer, and whether
the printer driver can query the printer—that is, it asks the printer a question about its
conguration, such as supported paper sizes or what fonts are resident in its memory or
otherwise available for use, then expects an answer—depends on the OS on which it is
running, and perhaps the vintage of the OS. For many applications, usually simpler ones,
it is the printer driver that is responsible for generating the PostScript that is ultimately
sent to the printer for printing. For what are considered high-end applications, such as
the graphics or page-composition applications that are described at the end of Chapter 7,
the printer driv ...
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