PostScript Latin 1 Encoding explained

The PostScript Latin 1 Encoding (often spelled ISOLatin1Encoding) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) since 1984 (1982). In 1995, IBM assigned code page 1277 (CCSID 1277) to this character set.^{[1] [2]} It is a superset of ISO 8859-1.

See also

• Adobe Glyph List

References

• Book: PostScript Language Reference Manual . 1st printing, 3rd . February 1999 . 1985 . 0-201-37922-8 . Adobe Systems Incorporated . Adobe Systems Incorporated . . 2017-02-18 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170218093716/https://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf . 2017-02-18. (NB. This book is informally called "red book" due to its red cover.)
• Book: PostScript Language Reference Manual . 2nd . 1990 . 1985 . Adobe Systems Incorporated . Adobe Systems Incorporated . Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. (NB. This edition also contains a description of Display PostScript, which is no longer discussed in the third edition.)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Code page 1277 information document. https://web.archive.org/web/20180325014110/https://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01277.html. 2018-03-25.
2. Web site: CCSID 1277 information document. https://web.archive.org/web/20160327022406/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1277.html. 2016-03-27.