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page de·scrip·tion lan·guage

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  1. Page description language

    A page description language is a language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap. An overlapping term is printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's PCL. PostScript is one of the most noted page description languages. The markup language adaption of the PDL is the page description markup language. Page description languages are textual or binary data streams. In principle, the same data stream could be rendered multiple times to generate multiple copies of the same image. They are distinct from graphics APIs such as GDI and OpenGL that can be called by software to generate graphical output.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of page description language in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of page description language in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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