Page description languages
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* [[Windows Metafile|EMF]], a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling | * [[Windows Metafile|EMF]], a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling | ||
* [[ESC/P]], Epson Standard Code for Printers | * [[ESC/P]], Epson Standard Code for Printers | ||
| + | * [[ESC/POS]], Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems | ||
* [[HP-GL]] | * [[HP-GL]] | ||
* [[OpenXPS]] (Open XML Paper Specification) | * [[OpenXPS]] (Open XML Paper Specification) | ||
Revision as of 00:50, 21 January 2014
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
- ESC/POS, Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems
- HP-GL
- OpenXPS (Open XML Paper Specification)
- PCL (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers)
- PDF (derived from PostScript)
- PS, EPS (Adobe PostScript)
Resources
- Wikipedia page about page definition languages
