CSA Standards

Information Technology - Processing Languages - Standard Page Description Language (SPDL) - Technical Corrigendum 1: December 2002
 N CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 10180-97

Annotation

This International Standard defines a language for the specification of electronic documents, comprised of black and white, gray scale, or full color text, images, and geometric graphics, in a form suitable for presentation (printing or displaying on other suitable media).

This International Standard is intended to be extensible in order to accommodate future developments in imaging technology.

This International Standard is intended to be used in a variety of configurations meeting a variety of connectivity needs. It is specifically compatible with use over OSI networks.

In addition to specifying how document images are represented, this International Standard specifies how Document Production Instructions affect document presentation.

Field of Application

This International Standard is intended for use in a wide variety of printing and publishing environments, including:

- electronic publishing;

- office systems;

- nformation networks;

- demand printing.

Documents conforming to this International Standard are termed SPDL documents. SPDL documents may be:

- interchanged;

- processed by locally connected presentation devices;