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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/25/07 10:21
Tim Roberts wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> PDF's are not written in postscript.
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> Yes, actually, they are. Large sections are usually compressed so that
> they look binary, but PDFs are fundamentally a subset of PostScript.
Actually, they aren't. PDF's have about as much in common with
PostScript as PHP and C++ do - both PDF's and Postscript files are page
description markups. But that's where they stop. A PostScript printer
will barf all over a PDF file, compressed or not.
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