PostScript
From Computer History Wiki
PostScript was a file format for specifying documents to be printed on a laser printer. It was invented by Adobe in 1983; it was the predecessor to the now-ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF).
External links
- PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
- PostScript Language Reference
- Inventing PostScript, The Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing - also contains a history of the work elsewhere that led up to PostScript
- How PostScript Kickstarted Desktop Publishing
- PostScript: A Digital Printing Press
