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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: WANTED:tutorial manual or books info
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:28:14 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Nov18.165111.23054@eng.ufl.edu>,<1992Nov19.203415.10299@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
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- In article <1992Nov19.203415.10299@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>, henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) writes:
- = * do we have any tutorial manual on the
- = * postscript? I just begin to learn the
- = * postscript language, and would like to
- = * find a good tutorial manual or book
- = * of the language.
- = * can someone give me some suggestion?
- = * Thanks in advance!
- =
- =Our new book is called ``PostScript by Example''. It is a
- =tutorial book on PostScript and covers PostScript Level Two
- =patterns, forms, composite fonts, rect operators, and color models.
- =
- =Look for ``PostScript by Example'', by Mary Campione and
- =Henry McGilton. Published by Addison Wesley.
- =648 pages. Over 500 examples. Over 750 pictures.
- =
- =A disk is also available separately. The disk
- =contains 13,000 lines of PostScript code from the book.
-
- Or, of course, one could buy that little-known book called the _PostScript_
- _Tutorial_and_Cookbook_ (a.k.a. the blue book) from Adobe.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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