Re: PDF on debian
Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> Le 3/12/23 à 14:18, Brian a écrit :
> > On Sun 12 Mar 2023 at 10:45:02 +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote:
> >
> > > Le 3/9/23 à 15:33, Vincent Lefevre a écrit :
> > > > it is strange that the choice was to generate
> > > > PostScript and not PDF.
> > >
> > > Isn't postscript what printers read?
> >
> > Many (most?) printers do not understand PostScript. The
> > printing system itself is based on processing PDFs.
> >
>
> Oh.
> Times have changed!
> I thought it was the other way around.
You are correct, Yassine.
PostScript is an interpreted language. PDF is a compressed
archive data format which includes simplified PostScript commands,
images, fonts, and other chunks of data.
Apart from Windows-derived GDI printers, the majority of laser
and inkjet printers have a PostScript interpreter built in, even
if its primary use is in interpreting PDF files.
-dsr-
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