So tonight, when you shut down your PC, whisper a quiet thank you to postscript.dll . The file that refuses to be deleted, forgotten, or replaced.
You would be wrong.
Why? Because postscript.dll doesn't just call PostScript functions. In many versions of Windows, it contains a tiny, stripped-down PostScript interpreter (partially based on code from Adobe, licensed decades ago). When a non-PostScript printer receives a complex PS job, this DLL essentially runs that code inside your computer and hands the resulting raster image to the printer. postscript.dll