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From: scout%zyzzyva@SUN.COM (David LaVallee)
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Subject: more references to learn PostScript
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Date: 5 Oct 88 03:03:41 GMT
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The point should be made that PostScript is VERY worth learning
regardless of the learning resources you have available. This
message will enumerate a number of the resources I have called
on to teach PostScript language and NeWS. I have the bias of having
been a graphic designer before getting into this computer stuff.

PostScript is found in "many" (understatement intended) printers
at a variety of resolutions and numbers of colors. All of the window
systems of the (near, and past-present) future leverage PostScript in
some fashion.

In the early days of PostScript my development environment consisted
of the Adobe "Blue" book, and cat-ing files to the LaserWriter, counting
the number of times the yellow light blinked to determine how far my
program had got.

The situation is much better today:

The Bible:

	Book:	Adobe Systems Inc.: PostScript Reference
		Addison-Wesley
		the "Red" book

Beginner-Intermediate:

	Book:	D Holzgang, Understanding PostScript Programing
		Sybex
	Book:	Adobe Systems Inc.: PostScript Tutorial and CookBook
		Addison-Wesley
		the "Blue" book
	MacSW:	-LaserTalk, by Emerald City Software
		-the Cricket products
		-Adobe Illustrator
		-Aldus Freehand
		(appologies if I've left out any, it's just that I
		 don't follow Mac software availability too closely)

Advanced

	Book:	Adobe Systems Inc.: PostScript Program Design
		Addison-Wesley
		the "Green" book
		(I can't wait for the cyan, yellow, and magenta books)
	Book:	Bove, Davis, Rhodes: Adobe Illustrator, official handbook
		Bantam Computer Books
		especially chapter 6...
	Paper:	O Densmore: Object Oriented Programming in NeWS
		Nov. 1986, USENIX Monterey Computer Graphics Workshop
	SW:	NeWS on Sun, SGI, Mac, Amiga, VAX, RT, ISI, OS2, etcetera.

Also of interest:

	Book:	Alex White: How to Spec Type
		published by Watson-Guptill, a good introduction to
		Graphic Design with a bent on typography.
	Book:	S Ambron, and K Hooper: Interactive Multimedia
		Microsoft Press
	Book:	G Holzmann: Beyond Photography, the Digital Darkroom
		Prentice Hall
		(more on this one later)

--scout