Postscript versus PDF

Function PostScript PDF
Basic Text, Vectorgraphics and Raster images Level 1 PDF 1.0
Type 3-Fonts Level 1 PDF 1.0
LZW-, JPEG- (DCT-), RunLength- and CCITT-Compression Level 2 PDF 1.0
Reusable Graphicelements (Form XObjects) Level 2 PDF 1.0
Image Interpolation Level 2 PDF 1.0
Indexed Colors Level 2 PDF 1.0
CMYK-color space Level 2 PDF 1.0
CIEBasedABC-color space Level 2 PDF 1.1
Rendering Intent for Colorspace conversion Level 3 PDF 1.1
TrueType-Fonts Level 3 PDF 1.1
Color space transformation with transfer functions Level 1 PDF 1.2
Filling Pattern Level 2 PDF 1.2
Color Separation Level 2 PDF 1.2
Overprint of all Elements Level 2 PDF 1.2
CID-Fonts (including CJK) Level 3 PDF 1.2
CFF-Fonts (OpenType, and Type 1) Level 3 PDF 1.2
Unicode-Support PDF 1.2
OPI-Support - PDF 1.2
Flat- or Zip-Compression Level 3 PDF 1.2
DeviceN-color space Level 3 PDF 1.3
Color Gradients Level 3 PDF 1.3
Masked images Level 3 PDF 1.3
Remapping Device Colors to CIE Level 3 PDF 1.3
Trapping http://printwiki.org/Trapping Level 3 PDF 1.3
Ignore Nullcomponents when printing over CMYK
CMYK-Colors (overprint mode) Level 3 PDF 1.3
ICC-Colorprofiles for Images PDF 1.3
Change pagesize (bleed) PDF 1.3
Transparency and alphachannel PDF 1.4
JBIG2-Compression PDF 1.4
ICC-Colorprofiles for describing outputdevices PDF 1.4