Page description language

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A page description language (PDL) is a language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap. An overlapping term is printer control language. PostScript, one of the most noted page description languages, is a fully fledged programming language, but many PDLs are not complete enough to be considered a programming language. The markup language adaption of the PDL is the page description markup language.

  • AFP (Advanced Function Presentation)
  • CPCL, Comtec Printer Control Language (Zebra, Comtec).
  • Diablo
  • DVI (DeVice Independent)
  • EPL (Eltron Programming Language)
  • ESC/P2
  • IPDS (Intelligent Printer Data Stream)
  • Metacode (a Xerox print stream format used in their older high-speed printers)
  • PCL (Printer Command Language)
  • PDF (Portable Document Format)
  • PostScript
  • PPDS (Personal Printer Data Stream).
  • GDI (Graphic device interface. Raster format, described here)
  • SPL (Samsung Printer Language. Specs. available here)
  • ESC/P (Epson Standard Code for Printers, simple language mainly used in dot matrix printers)
  • KPDL, Kyocera Page Description Language.
  • ZJS, Zenographics ZjStream Page Description Language.
  • ZPL, Zebra Programming Language.


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