Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!fmr From: fmr@cwi.nl (Frank Rahmani) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Re: page counting; books Message-ID: <491@sering.cwi.nl> Date: 6 May 88 03:48:45 GMT References: <1209@its63b.ed.ac.uk> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 32 >>2. Could somebody recommend a book or books on Postscript? I could use both >>a textbook or user guide, and a reference manual? > > The definitive reference manual is the `Red Book': > PostScript Language Reference Manual by Adobe Systems Incorporated. > Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0 201 10174 2 > > and the corresponding tutorial is the `Blue Book': > PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook > ISBN 0 201 10179 3 and the corresponding programming manual is the `Green Book': PostScript Language Program Design Addison-Wesley,ISBN 0 201 14396 8 but there is also the pink book: David A. Holzgang Understanding Postscript Programming Sybex,ISBN 0 89588 396 1 and there is another one (something like `Postscript Programming' or `Programming with PostScript') that never made it to Europe. > > > > Hope this helps! fmr@cwi.nl -- It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- These opinions are solely mine and in no way reflect those of my employer.