PDF Emerges From PostScript

Finally, Adobe released PostScript 3. In reality this revision was fairly minor. Even in 1998 many vendors were releasing products that were not fully PostScript 2 compliant, let alone 3. An interesting addition to PostScript 3 was the native support for PDF.

PostScript achieved exactly what it was created to do: provide a universal language for digital output. Over the years, proofing devices, imagesetters, direct imaging presses, digital presses and countless other devices have all been able to share the same input file because of this.