Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jj1h+ From: jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Postscript Books Message-ID: Date: 29 Sep 90 04:01:30 GMT References: , <1011@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Distribution: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: <1011@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 27-Sep-90 Re: Postscript Books Henry McGilton@hourglass (1016) > In article , 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? > Finally, to do `serious PostScript programming' you should have the > PostScript Language Reference Manual, published by Adobe Systems > (the `Red Book') available. When I was learning PostScript this summer, I found that reading the Red Book's first five chapters made many "foreign" PostScript concepts very clear to me. Of course, the last chapter containing the detailed operator descriptions makes better reference material than reading material but I would strongly recommend reading the first five chapters. It's only about 100 pages and is organized nicely into sections. The third chapter describes PostScript from a languages point of view and was especially helpful to me. Joe Jackson Distributed Workstation Services Carnegie Mellon University Internet: jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu Bitnet: jj1h+@ANDREW AT&Tnet: (412) 268-8799