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From: ramani@PATIENCE.STANFORD.EDU (Ramani Pichumani)
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Subject: NeWS bibliography
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Date: 26 Aug 89 17:59:28 GMT
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> Now here's another call for comments -- which of these books are the
> most important, which are helpful, and which are totally useless?
> Lets hear it...

My nomination for most useful books:

1.  The NeWS Book (Gosling, et. al).  If there is only one book to
have, this is it.

2.  The "Blue" Book (Adobe).  The definitive introduction to PostScript.

3.  NeWS Application Scenario (Sun).  Before the NeWS book was around,
this was the ONLY way to learn how to write a real application.

4.  Real World PostScript (Stephen F. Roth, Addison Wesley).  Explains
a lot of useful information about PostScript that Adobe doesn't
mention.  Also, this is a good book for learning a lot of practical
information such as writing truly portable PostScript programs.

Most useless (or most confusing) book for learning NeWS:

1.  The NeWS Manual (Sun).  A joke (at least for learning).  Good only
as a reference.

By the way, I'm still interested in knowing if future releases of NeWS
from Sun will also include the NeWS book by Gosling.  I think it would
be a big mistake not to include it.

Ramani Pichumani

Department of Computer Science, Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 308,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA Tel:(415)723-2902 Fax:(415)725-7411

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