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Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 27-Sep-90 Re: Postscript
Books Henry McGilton@hourglass (1016)

> In article <TWL.90Sep27143018@boojum.cs.brown.edu>, 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
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