I think of PDF like PostScript but not Turing complete. I think of PostScript as an "ink on paper" format. While you can take apart the PDF / PS format, dicti

I think of PDF like PostScript but not Turing complete. I think of PostScript as an "ink on paper" format. While you can take apart the PDF / PS format, dictionaries, etc. It's not a high level representation format, like a word processor. It's a way of specifying how to draw vector shapes onto "paper".