December 2002
Beginner
478 pages
17h 55m
English
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Document File Formats
The document file formats covered in this book are PostScript and PDF. PostScript is a programming language for representing two-dimensional graphics. It was one of the many innovations of the late ’70s to come out of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and have a significant impact on the way people think about and use computers today. PostScript was the brainchild of John Warnock, who used the language to research graphic arts applications of computers. In 1982, Warnock and Chuck Geschke formed Adobe Systems, and the language that they developed at PARC was redesigned and packaged as PostScript.
The PDF format came along in the early ’90s, also from Adobe. PDF builds on the capabilities of PostScript but is aimed at becoming a truly portable platform for the electronic interchange of files. PostScript and PDF are described in detail in Chapter 10 through Chapter 12.
PostScript: A Language for Page Representation
PostScript has become the standard programming language for printing.[4] Over the course of a couple of decades, it has gone through several revisions, referred to as PostScript Level I, Level II, and Level III. There are several other page description formats in the PostScript family, each with its own application niche:
- Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
Encapsulated PostScript is a standard format for including a PostScript page description in other page descriptions. An EPS file is simply a one-page PostScript file (representing any combination of ...
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