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PostScript(R) Language Reference (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

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Programmers who specialize in PostScript, the page-description language, now have a newly updated reference guide for LanguageLevel 3. PostScript® Language Reference starts off with a bit of history on the language and an overview of the new version. It goes on to cover basic topics such as raster output devices, scan conversion, and page-description languages in general.

PostScript® Language Reference provides an overview of how to use the PostScript interpreter and understand the ideal structure of PostScript page descriptions. The book covers the heart of the language, including syntax, data types and objects, stacks, execution, basic operators, memory management, file input/output (I/O), functions, errors, and filtered-files and binary-encoding details. Subsequent chapters cover graphics, fonts, device control, rendering, and operators.

The appendices include a LanguageLevel feature summary, implementation limits, interpreter parameters, compatibility issues, character sets, encoding vectors, system-name encodings, and operator-usage guidelines. There's also a bibliography with additional reading recommendations. --Kathleen Caster

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Presents a complete and authoritative reference manual for the PostScript language. Explains the fundamentals of the PostScript language, graphics, fonts, device control, and rendering. Softcover. DLC: PostScript (Computer program language).

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Paperback: 912 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd edition (March 18, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201379228
ISBN-13: 978-0201379228
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars new version is out., August 9, 1999

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This review is from: PostScript(R) Language Reference Manual (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Be carefull. This book describes LanguageLevel 2. There is a new version out that describes LanguageLevel 3.(1999 version)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Great book but outdated!, August 8, 2000

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This review is from: PostScript(R) Language Reference Manual (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

If you want to program in PostScript, you must have this manual. However, you need the newer version, since this second edition only covers version 2 of the PostScript language. The third edition covers version 3, and you can find it for sale here on Amazon using ISBN 0-201-37922-8.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reference, August 8, 2000

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This manual - the 'Red Book' - is absolutely necessary for programming in PostScript. It is the only complete reference guide to the language, and is so well-organized and thorough that no one else even bothers to publish a complete third-party guide. Many other books have been published on PostScript - and many are excellent - but they are books you will buy in addition to, rather than instead of, this manual. We can only wish that other software manuals were as well-written.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Called the "PostScript Bible" for good reason
If you are going to be working with PostScript you will need this book (widely refered to as the "Red Book. Read more

Published on April 7, 2001 by kent dahlgren

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If you're like me and just need to do a little bit with the language, you will need this book but you might want to consider downloading it directly from Adobe. Read more

Published on February 23, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Very complete!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An essential text for serious users of PostScript printers.
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