Title
Page description languages: development, implementation and standardization
Abstract
SUMMARY Advances in laser technology have facilitated the development of printers which accept input in the form of pages rather than the lines characteristic of impact printers. Concurrently, page description languages (PDLs) have been designed to facilitate the integration of complex text and graphics for printing. PDLs are described in a variety of ways and the paper starts with a rationalization of these viewpoints. It then traces the development of PDLs, describes their main characteristics, and looks at their relationship with laser printers. A survey of current implementations is then followed by an analysis of the relationship of these languages to other schemes for the description of printed images. Finally, the paper considers the requirements for a PDL standard.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1988
Electronic Publishing
page description languages laser printers rip standards,page description language
Field
DocType
Volume
Graphics,Information retrieval,Computer science,Viewpoints,Laser technology,Rationalization (psychology),Implementation,Standardization,Database
Journal
1
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
1
0.41
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. L. Oakley110.41
A. C. Norris210.41