APPLICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE
DESKTOP PUBLISHING WORD PROCESSING SOFTWARE
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Question
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post script
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post publishing
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -PostScript is a page description and programming language developed by Adobe that describes text, graphics, and images, and their placement on a page, independent of the intended output destination.
Detailed explanation-2: -A page description language (PDL) specifies the arrangement of a printed page through commands from a computer that the printer carries out. Hewlett Packard’s Printer Control Language ( PCL ) and Adobe’s PostScript are the two most commonly used PDLs.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was originally designed to print documents on laser printers but was soon adapted to produce high-resolution files for imagesetters used by commercial printers. Adobe PostScript® translates ideas into print-exactly as intended. It quickly became the technology of choice for high-quality output.
Detailed explanation-4: -PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language. It was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Brotz, Ed Taft and Bill Paxton from 1982 to 1984.
Detailed explanation-5: -PCL drivers do most of the rendering on the local workstation and the information is sent in essentially binary form to the printer. Post Script drivers essentially send a page description to the printer, where it is rendered.