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Article #7010Re: Adobe Green Book, comment.
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 05:03
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 05:03
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> Just got a copy of the Green Book (Program Design). Looks like > there is much good information and certainly every PostScript > programmer ought to have one, but.... > The index stinks. I don't mean that there are not enough references, > just that the page numbers are incorrect for most of the entries > I checked. I didn't check them all (Adobe's publisher should have > hired a proofreader for that). Well, the index doesn't exactly "stink", I hope, but it does have an unfortunate bug that you have correctly identified. It is related to having generated the index and having a page boundary slip afterward. The exact nature of the problem is that page references in the index that point to pages beyond 87 (where the page boundary changed) are off by exactly 2. This is (luckily) fairly easy to accommodate--just turn the page back once and look on the same side of the page. It is an embarrassing mistake and it will be fixed in the reprints of the book. Thanks for pointing it out. Glenn Reid Adobe Systems
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!eos!aurora!labrea!decwrl!adobe!ondine!greid From: greid@ondine (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Adobe Green Book, comment. Message-ID: <3760@adobe.COM> Date: 21 Mar 88 05:03:28 GMT References: <453@voodoo.UUCP> Sender: nobody@adobe.COM Reply-To: greid@ondine.UUCP (Glenn Reid) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 23 Keywords: index bug postscript green book Summary: a bug, indeed, but easy enough to cope with....