Page description languages
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| − | These formats describe how a page that is to be printed looks like. It's mostly used as final format before the data is sent to the printer. | + | These formats describe how a page that is to be printed looks like. It's mostly used as final format before the data is sent to the printer. See also [[Document]], [[Markup]], and [[Electronic Publishing formats]]. |
* [[DVI (Device Independent File Format)|DVI]] TeX/LaTeX | * [[DVI (Device Independent File Format)|DVI]] TeX/LaTeX | ||
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Overview
These formats describe how a page that is to be printed looks like. It's mostly used as final format before the data is sent to the printer. See also Document, Markup, and Electronic Publishing formats.
- DVI TeX/LaTeX
- EMF, a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling
- ESC/P, Epson Standard Code for Printers
- ESC/POS, Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems
- HP-GL
- OpenXPS (Open XML Paper Specification)
- PCL (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers)
- PDF (derived from PostScript)
- PS, EPS (Adobe PostScript)
Resources
- Wikipedia page about page definition languages
