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.


 * DVI TeX/LaTeX
 * EMF, a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling
 * ESC/P, Epson Standard Code for Printers
 * HP-GL
 * PCL (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers)
 * PDF (derived from PostScript)
 * PS, EPS (Adobe PostScript)
 * XPS (XML Paper Specification)

Resources

 * Wikipedia page about page definition languages