PostScripttekniikkaan
PostScripttekniikkaan, commonly referred to as PostScript, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Adobe Systems. It was designed to provide a consistent and precise way to describe the appearance of a document, including text, graphics, and images, regardless of the output device. PostScript achieves this by defining a mathematical model of how a page should be rendered. This means that the description is device-independent, allowing the same PostScript file to be printed on various devices like laser printers, imagesetters, and plotters, with the output quality determined by the capabilities of the specific device.
The language itself is a stack-based, interpreted programming language. It includes commands for drawing lines, curves,
PostScript played a crucial role in the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s and 1990s. It enabled