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From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 2nd edition of Red Book (was:Re: Color PostScript Image Operator)
Keywords: PostScript, image
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.180212.2645@techbook.com>
Date: 4 Sep 90 18:02:12 GMT
References: <5965@adobe.UUCP> <1990Sep3.141048.3514@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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In article <1990Sep3.141048.3514@cl.cam.ac.uk> cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
>In article <5965@adobe.UUCP> orthlieb@adobe.UUCP (Carl Orthlieb) writes:
>>
>>The new red book that is currently in the works will also describe these
>>operators in detail.
>
>I noticed that a 2nd edition was mentioned in Documents/book.info from the
>Adobe server. Would anyone from Adobe like to tell us what extra stuff
>will be in it? Packed arrays and //names, presumably. V2 structure comments?
>Display PostScript operators? setpage?
>
>According to book.info, it will cost $4 more than the 1st edition. More pages?

I'm not from Adobe, but the description in the Fall 1990 Addison-Wesley catalog
lists the page count at 480 pages, which is quite a few more than the first
edition.  It's listed as "covering the many new powerful features added to
PostScript, including the Display PostScript system, color extensions, and font
extensions.  Written by the experts at Adobe Systems, Inc., this comprehensive
reference discusses the individual PostScript operators in detail."  

Hope that helps a little.  They haven't sent out any additional info on the 
book yet.


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