Porting Postscript code to TRANSCRIPT

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Jan 17 17:44:56 EST 2004


On Saturday, January 17, 2004, at 03:27 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> You can get the "red book" online from Amazon.  Title:  "PostScript 
> Language Reference"
>
> You might find online references or tutorials.

I found this online (note 8MB):

> PostScript language references
> Red Book , Adobe's Postscript Language Reference Manual
> 912 pages, 7.6MB, from 
> http://www.adobe.com/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf ; also available 
> as http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/PDFS/TN/PLRM.pdf .
>
> Blue Book , Adobe's Postscript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
> 242 pages, 0.9MB, from 
> http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF .
>
> Green Book ,Postscript Language Program Design
> 228 pages, 0.9MB, from 
> http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/GREENBK.PDF .
>
> Book Thinking in Postscript
> 239 pages, 0.8MB, from 
> http://www.rightbrain.com/download/books/ThinkingInPostScript.pdf (cf. 
> http://www.rightbrain.com/rightbrain.shtml ).

I haven't tried the red book download to see if it really works.

If you can handle an 8MB download, this would be a good reference.  I'm 
glad I noticed it; my red book is a couple decades old.

Dar Scott



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