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Re: Adobe Green Book, comment.

#7010
From: Glenn Reid
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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Subject: Re: Adobe Green Book, comment.
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Date: 21 Mar 88 05:03:28 GMT
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Summary: a bug, indeed, but easy enough to cope with....