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In article <2619@sphinx.uchicago.edu>, k111@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Peter Kim) writes:
> Are there books or magazines about PostScript?

The basic source material for PostScript is the PostScript
Tutorial and Cookbook, by Adobe Systems, published by
Addison Wesley, and available in most bookstores with any
size computer collection.

A good magazine devoted entirely to PostScript is the
PostScript Journal, published by Pipeline Associates (who
are also the developers of the devps troff-to-PostScript
postprocessor).  You can get more information from:

Pat Wood, 
Pipeline Associates
49 Manitou Ave 
Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034
(201) 334-0772
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We wrote a short introduction to PostScript ourselves, which
is included in our booklet PostScript Typesetting, which we
were giving out as a premium to introduce our PostScript
Typesetting services.  However, supplies are low, and we
need to save them for our typesetting customers.

We will be developing the booklet into a Nutshell Handbook
on the subject of PostScript and troff, which should be available 
in a couple of months.  Besides some basic tutorial
information on PostScript, the book will review the
available troff-to-PostScript postprocessors, discuss
methods for incorporating PostScript figures in troff
documents (psfig, macros using .sy and \!, etc.), and so on.

On the other part of your original query (you were asking
about how to use other fonts than those resident on the
LaserWriter), Pipeline Associates' devps includes instructions 
for downloading fonts to the printer, and a PostScript program for
extracting troff width tables from the font.  I'm not sure
at this point what kind of support psroff includes for this,
but I'm sure it's there somewhere in the manual.
-- 
Tim O'Reilly (617) 527-4210
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks
981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164
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