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    Technical Details: Postscript Language

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    Adobe published a royalty-free patent license for PDF implementations and contributed the PDF specification to ISO. However, some proprietary technologies referenced in ISO 32000-1, like XFA and JavaScript extensions, are only specified by Adobe and not supported by all PDF readers. ISO 32000-2 replaced ISO 32000-1 and does not include any proprietary technologies. In 2023, the PDF Association made ISO 32000-2 freely available.

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    Adobe published a royalty-free patent license for PDF implementations and contributed the PDF specification to ISO. However, some proprietary technologies referenced in ISO 32000-1, like XFA and JavaScript extensions, are only specified by Adobe and not supported by all PDF readers. ISO 32000-2 replaced ISO 32000-1 and does not include any proprietary technologies. In 2023, the PDF Association made ISO 32000-2 freely available.

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    Adobe published a royalty-free patent license for PDF implementations and contributed the PDF specification to ISO. However, some proprietary technologies referenced in ISO 32000-1, like XFA and JavaScript extensions, are only specified by Adobe and not supported by all PDF readers. ISO 32000-2 replaced ISO 32000-1 and does not include any proprietary technologies. In 2023, the PDF Association made ISO 32000-2 freely available.

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    Adobe published a royalty-free patent license for PDF implementations and contributed the PDF specification to ISO. However, some proprietary technologies referenced in ISO 32000-1, like XFA and JavaScript extensions, are only specified by Adobe and not supported by all PDF readers. ISO 32000-2 replaced ISO 32000-1 and does not include any proprietary technologies. In 2023, the PDF Association made ISO 32000-2 freely available.

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    published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents

    owned by Adobe necessary to make, use, sell, and distribute PDF-compliant implementations. [8]
    PDF 1.7, the sixth edition of the PDF specification that became ISO 32000-1, includes some
    proprietary technologies defined only by Adobe, such as Adobe XML Forms Architecture (XFA)
    and JavaScript extension for Acrobat, which are referenced by ISO 32000-1 as normative and
    indispensable for the full implementation of the ISO 32000-1 specification. [9] These proprietary
    technologies are not standardized, and their specification is published only on Adobe's website. [10]
    [11][12]
    Many of them are not supported by popular third-party implementations of PDF.
    ISO's published ISO 32000-2 in 2017, available for purchase, replacing the free specification
    provided by Adobe.[13] In December 2020, the second edition of PDF 2.0, ISO 32000-2:2020, was
    published, with clarifications, corrections, and critical updates to normative references [14] (ISO
    32000-2 does not include any proprietary technologies as normative references). [15] In April 2023
    the PDF Association made ISO 32000-2 available for download free of charge. [13]

    Technical details[edit]
    A PDF file is often a combination of vector graphics, text, and bitmap graphics. The basic types
    of content in a PDF are:

     Typeset text stored as content streams (i.e., not encoded in plain text);
     Vector graphics for illustrations and designs that consist of shapes and lines;
     Raster graphics for photographs and other types of images
     Multimedia objects in the document.
    In later PDF revisions, a PDF document can also support links (inside document or web page),
    forms, JavaScript (initially available as a plugin for Acrobat 3.0), or any other types of embedded
    contents that can be handled using plug-ins.
    PDF combines three technologies:

     An equivalent subset of the PostScript page description programming language but


    in declarative form, for generating the layout and graphics.
     A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with the documents.
     A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any associated content
    into a single file, with data compression where appropriate.
    PostScript language[edit]
    PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. It can
    handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as if statements
    and loop commands. PDF is largely based on PostScript, but simplified to remove flow control
    features like those of PostScript, while graphics commands equivalent to lineto remain.
    Historically, the PostScript-like PDF code is generated from a source PostScript file. The
    graphics commands that are output by the PostScript code are collected and tokenized.[clarification
    needed]
    Any files, graphics, or fonts to which the document refers also are collected. Then,
    everything is compressed into a single file. Therefore, the entire PostScript world (fonts, layout,
    measurements) remains intact.[citation needed]
    As a document format, PDF has several advantages over PostScript:

     PDF contains tokenized and interpreted results of the PostScript source code, for
    direct correspondence between changes to items in the PDF page description and
    changes to the resulting page appearance.
     Since version 1.4 PDF supports transparent graphics; PostScript does not.
     PostScript is an interpreted programming language with an implicit global state, so
    instructions accompanying the description of one page can affect the appearance of
    any following page; consequently all preceding pages in a PostScript document must
    be processed to determine the correct appearance of a given pa

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