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PDF is a subset of PostScript that removes control flow features like branching and looping while keeping graphics commands, it includes a font embedding system to allow fonts to travel with documents and uses a structured storage system to bundle elements and content into a single compressed file.

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PDF is a subset of PostScript that removes control flow features like branching and looping while keeping graphics commands, it includes a font embedding system to allow fonts to travel with documents and uses a structured storage system to bundle elements and content into a single compressed file.

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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
PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image.[6] It can
handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and
looping.[6] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while
graphics commands remain.[6]

PostScript was originally designed for a drastically different use case: transmission of one-way
linear print jobs in which the PostScript interpreter would collect a series of commands until it

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