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The Adobe PDF Print Engine – APPE – is a software platform of ADOBE, specializing in the processing of PDF files and print rendering. It follows the widespread PostScript Level III print language or CPSI (Configurable PostScript Interpreter).
A RIP is a raster image processor. A RIP is normally understood as a software, sometimes also a hardware or a software / hardware combination, that converts Postscript or PDF data of a page description language into raster points or image files that a “imagesetter” can expose to a plate, film or a proof output.