Page description languages

File Format
Name	Page description languages
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Page description languages

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
• IJPDS (Inkjet Printer Data Stream; Kodak Versamark)
• OpenXPS (Open XML Paper Specification)
• PCL (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers)
• PDF (derived from PostScript)
• PS, EPS (Adobe PostScript)
• Zj-Stream (Zenographics)

Resources

• Wikipedia page about page definition languages