shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) (08/27/85)
Adobe Systems is pleased and proud to announce the publication of two books on the PostScript language. The "PostScript Language Reference Manual" (ISBN 0-201-10174-2), and the "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" (ISBN 0-201-10179-3), are published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company of Reading, Mass. PostScript, a device-independent page description language, is quickly becoming the industry standard for printing high-quality integrated text and graphics. PostScript has been incorporated into laser printers manufactured by Apple Computer, Allied Linotype, QMS Incorporated, and Dataproducts Corporation. PostScript Language Reference Manual ------------------------------------ This book is the complete definitive reference guide to the PostScript language. It begins with a discussion of the basic ideas that underlie PostScript, followed by comprehensive presentations of the language and its graphics and font facilities. The precise semantics of every PostScript operator is detailed in a convenient dictionary-like format. The manual concludes with four useful appendices on the standard fonts, implementation limits, structuring conventions, and the Apple LaserWriter. The PostScript Language Reference Manual represents substantial rewritting, reorganization, and additions to the information previously available as the PostScript Language Manual. The book is 336 pages, fully illustrated, and is available for $22.95. PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook ----------------------------------------- This book provides a thorough, clearly written guide to PostScript that outlines the features and capabilities of the language and shows practical ways to create useful PostScript programs. Using numerous annotated examples and short programs, the tutorial provides a step-by-step guided tour of PostScript, highlighting those qualities that make it such a unique and powerful language. The cookbook offers a collection of some of the most useful techniques and procedures available to PostScript programmers. The book is 256 pages, fully illustrated, and is available for $16.95. Both books were typeset entirely with PostScript (on the Linotype Linotronic 300 and Linotron 101 respectively), with no paste-up of any kind. The books, utilizing a complex book design, were formatted with the Scribe document production system and proofed on an Apple LaserWriter before final typesetting of camera-ready copy at Adobe Systems. These books should be available in bookstores soon. Most bookstores will accept orders using the ISBN (International Standard Book Number) codes given above. Adobe Systems will discontinue distribution of our older (3-hole bound) documentation, and begin distribution of these new books at list price plus shipping and handling. ----- Adobe Systems Incorporated