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Gzipped PostScript documents were fairly popular during the 90's and are functionally identical to PDFs for 99% of use cases. (PDF is essentially PostScript, bu

Gzipped PostScript documents were fairly popular during the 90's and are functionally identical to PDFs for 99% of use cases. (PDF is essentially PostScript, but with more features.)

necovek 2y ago
Well, both a simpler language more geared toward presentation, but also including more modern features designed for on-screen viewing.
kccqzy 2y ago
For Gzipped PostScript, code execution is its raison d'être. But it is at least possible to build a PDF viewer without code execution.