[net.micro.mac] PostScript books

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
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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
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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.

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