页面描述语言

页面描述语言（简称 PDL）是一种由電腦向打印機输出的语言。電腦上要打印的页面上的图像文字轉換成页面描述语言，打印機要讀取页面描述语言後才能输出。 一些页面描述语言并不完备，很难称为是一种编程语言，但是作为页面描述语言之一的 PostScript 则是一个非常完备的编程语言。

列表
*AFP (Advanced Function Presentation)
*DVI (stands for DeVice Independent)
*EPL (Eltron Programming Language)
*ESC/P2
*IPDS (Intelligent Printer Data Stream)
*Metacode
*PCL (Printer Command Language)
*PDF (Portable Document Format)
*PLT(HPGL)
*PostScript
*PPDS (Personal Printer Data Stream).
*SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).
*XSL-FO (XSL Formating Objects)
*XPS（XML Paper Specification）

参见
*置标语言

参考文献
外部链接
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070104033902/http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages Undocumented Printing]
*[http://www.nefec.org/UPM/ilang.htm Ultimate Printer Manual]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060603084839/http://www.iana.org/assignments/printer-language-numbers Printer MIB Interpreters Language Families]
*[http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/hostondemand/library/infocentergafinal/hod/en/doc/hostprint/hostprintref.html Host Printing Reference] Contains example for PPDS.
*[http://knowledgebase.lexmark.com/pubfiles/files/PATTLNK_2182005_1515-PPDS%20Escape%20Codes.pdf PPDS Escape codes]