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From: orthlieb@adobe.COM (Carl Orthlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 2nd edition of Red Book (was:Re: Color PostScript Image Operator)
Keywords: PostScript, image
Message-ID: <6242@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 16:52:11 GMT
References: <5965@adobe.UUCP> <1990Sep3.141048.3514@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: orthlieb@adobe.UUCP (Carl Orthlieb)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <1990Sep3.141048.3514@cl.cam.ac.uk> cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
>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?

Yes, yes, yes!  The red book has been occupying considerable bandwidth in 
people's working lives here at Adobe over the last 6 months.  It will be 
approximately 700 pages long, over twice the size of the original red book.

The unofficial contents of the book include revised material from the old
book, discussions pertaining to memory management, binary encoding formats,
user paths, filters, forms, patterns, color spaces, device independent 
printer features, composite (kanji) fonts, the new halftoning operators, 
compatibility strategies between PostScript Level 1 and Level 2, the 
Document Structuring Conventions v3.0, a detailed look at EPSF, and much, 
much more.

The extensions to the language, DPS, composite fonts, file system operators,
color, as well as all of the new Level 2 operators, are covered in full.

Carl 8-)