Chapter 10. Printing with Postscript and PDF
People like paper. Despite years of talk about the future “paperless” electronic office and the environmental impact of using as much paper as we do, people still like paper. In this chapter we look at PostScript, a programming language for representing printed pages. We also look at the Portable Document Format (PDF), an extension of PostScript that represents a good attempt at transcending today’s paper-bound office. This chapter presents the language features and some of the drawing primitives that will be needed to understand the higher-level Perl APIs presented in Chapter 11 and Chapter 12.
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