PostScript® Language Reference Manual, 2nd Edition
- By Adobe Systems, Inc.
- Published Jan 1, 1990 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Copyright 1990
- Dimensions: 7-3/8x9-1/8
- Pages: 784
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-201-18127-4
- ISBN-13: 978-0-201-18127-2
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The PostScript language has fueled a revolution in the world of visual communications. This powerful and flexible language efficiently describes the appearance of text, sampled images, and graphics on a printed page or display. PostScript language interpreters have been incorporated into some of today's most innovative printers, typesetters, film records, and computer display environments.
The PostScript Language Reference Manual from Adobe Systems Incorporated is the official reference to the PostScript language. This entirely new and up-to-date Second Edition offers the most comprehensive coverage of the entire PostScript language, including the recent advancements of PostScript Level 2.
The PostScript Language Reference Manual, contains the complete semantics of every PostScript language operator, the Display PostScript System, PostScript Level 1 (the original PostScript language), and PostScript Level 2, the first major revision to the language since its release in 1985. PostScript Level 2 incorporates recent extensions to the language and many new features including:
- CMYK color
- Composite fonts
- Forms
- Patterns
- Color separations
- Resource management
- New memory management
- Improved screening algorithms
- Data compression/decompression
- Support for printer-specific features
- Device-independent, CIE-based color
- Optimized text and graphics operators
As PostScript continues to be the industry standard page description language for imaging high-quality text and graphics, the PostScript Language Reference Manual, remains the definitive resource for all PostScript language programmers.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
new version is out.,
By A Customer
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)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Essential reference, By
This review is from: PostScript® Language Reference (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
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.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Indespensible but Downloadable,
By A Customer
This review is from: PostScript® Language Reference (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
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. They have it, in its entirety, in pdf format. (Why not postscript?!) On the otherhand, if you are going to be using this language alot, you will probably just want to buy the book seeing how an 897 page pdf is a bit unweildy.
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