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-
