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From: davis@3d.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: other page description languages
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Date: 24 May 91 19:11:06 GMT
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In article <1538@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, arnold@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Gregory Arnold) writes...
>	I'm taking a summer course that deals with the postscript language.
>One of the requirements of this course is a paper that compares postscript to
>other page description languages.  Would some kind soul please give me some
>examples of other such languages and possibly even a starting point for my
>research.  Much thanks in advance

Well, you could contact Xerox to get information about Interpress.  That's a PDL
that they were pushing for a while.  I don't know if they're still pursuing it
or not.

I believe Apple is trying to promote their QuickDraw graphics interface to a
PDL, with the addition of the TrueType technology from MicroSoft.

There's also some activity in the ISO on developing a Standardized Page
Description Language (SPDL), but I don't know the full name of the
committee/group.