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1997 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

PostScript Level 2

verfasst von : Thomas Merz

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Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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An important goal when defining Level 2 was to “catch” existing language extensions and to fix a unified standard. This was necessary because Adobe had to extend the PostScript language several times in order to keep up with the printer hardware development:►The first color printers brought the PostScript color extension containing, among others, the CMYK color model (see Section 6.5) and new operators for colored raster images.►Connecting hard disks to printers for storage of fonts and system files demanded new operators for file input/output.►Composite fonts were introduced for the Asian market. They are intended mainly for Japanese with its large character set and complex glyphs.►Display PostScript extended PostScript to computer monitors. This way, PostScript is no longer restricted to static page descriptions but is also suited for dynamically driving window systems.

Metadaten
Titel
PostScript Level 2
verfasst von
Thomas Merz
Copyright-Jahr
1997
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60384-6_5