23 Jul
2013
23 Jul
'13
12:30 a.m.
On 23/07/13 10:26, Ben Finney wrote:
This is distinct from a PDF renderer, which takes the input document and parses its structure and content, but then must go further and execute the result as a program in order to render to output.
Actually that's not so clear; as I understand it, the subset of
Postscript selected for PDF intentionally omits all flow control so that
it is no longer Turing-complete and can be parsed and rendered without
recourse to "execution" as such.
Regards,
Andrew
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Andrew Pam