Re: [WinMac] Re: DTP and HTML files [WAS:Re: Desktop Publishing Tools]

Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:18:55 -0400

At 9:28 PM -0500 3/23/99, Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
> HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language
>
> PostScript® = Page description language
>
> PCL = Page Control Language

        PDF - Portable Document Format (and a page description language).

> -> All three describe where elements are placed on a page; and POstScript®
> & HTML are text - based, which means they can be altered with BBEdit or
> Notepad.

        Same with PDF, though both Postscript and PDF (unlike the
other two) can contain binary data.

> When you look at actual HTML and PostScript® files, you'll see the
> *uncanny* similarities... Take a look and you'll see what I mean! :)
>
        Postscript is MUCH more complex than HTML - but it's a
programming language and should be.

LDR

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