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From: henry@hourglass.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript Books
Summary: There Are A Few Good Ones
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Date: 27 Sep 90 22:45:28 GMT
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In article <TWL.90Sep27143018@boojum.cs.brown.edu>, twl@cs.brown.edu (Ted "Theodore" W. Leung) writes:

    *  I'm interested in learning about PostScript.  Can
    *  someone give me a list of books that I should read/have
    *  in order to do some serious PostScript programming?

Beginners should start with `Learning PostScript -- A
Visual Approach' by Ross Smith, Peachpit Press, and then go
on to read the `PostScript Language Tutorial And Cookbook'
(the `Blue Book') by Adobe Systems.

Having read those books, you'd be an intermediate reader,
who should read `Real World PostScript' by Stephen Roth,
alongside Intermediate Readers should also read `PostScript
Language Program Design' by Glenn Reid.

Finally, to do `serious PostScript programming' you should have the
PostScript Language Reference Manual, published by Adobe Systems
(the `Red Book') available.  Also, `Graphic Design With PostScript'
by Gerard Kunkel has a lot of good stuff about color.

That's my three ha'pence worth.

	........  Henry