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Re: Postscript Books

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From: Woody Baker Eagle Signal
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 23:35
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In article <1011@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, henry@hourglass.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes:
> 
> Beginners should start with `Learning PostScript -- A
> Visual Approach' by Ross Smith, Peachpit Press, and then go

This one is a new one on me.  I think I'll go look it up.
As for the rest of these, I would recommend a slightly diffrent order.
I started with the Blue and Red books, because that was all that was
available.  I would strongly urge the reading of the GREEN book first,
then the Blue book, with the Red book for reference.  Finaly go to the
Orange book and the black font book.

The Green book goes into a lot of programming philosophy.  To write
truely good programs, one needs to develop a good programming gestalt
first.  The Green book does this, and does it very well.  While I don't
agree with the coding style (I prefer a more PASCAL like structure),
the technical content of the book is the best of any of them.  Once
you have read the Green book, then sit down and program, but not until.



> 
Cheers
Woody
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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
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Subject: Re: Postscript Books
Summary: a diffrent order
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Date: 28 Sep 90 23:35:22 GMT
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