Thinking in Postscript

 This hands-on guide shows readers how to "think" in PostScript, providing both new and experienced PostScript programmers with ideas and techniques to better manipulate and optimize PostScript functions and features.

Title Thinking in Postscript
Author(s) Glenn C. Reid
Publisher: Addison-Wesley (C) (October 1990)
Hardcover 221 pages
eBook Online, PDF files
Language: English
ISBN-10/ASIN: 0201523728
ISBN-13: 978-0201523720
Download: http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/localdoc/tips.pdf

PostScript Language Reference, 3rd Edition

The PostScript Language Reference, known as the Red Book, is the complete and authoritative reference manual for the PostScript language. Prepared by Adobe Systems Incorporated, the creators and stewards of the PostScript standard, it documents the syntax and semantics of the language, the Adobe imaging model, and the effects of the graphics operators. This Third Edition has been updated to include LanguageLevel 3 extensions, which unify a number of previous extensions and introduce many new features, such as high-fidelity color, support for masked images, and smooth shading capabilities.

This Red Book is the definitive resource for all PostScript programmers.

Title PostScript Language Reference, 3rd Edition
Author(s) Adobe Systems Inc
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd edition (March 18, 1999)
Paperback 912 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10/ASIN: 0201379228
ISBN-13: 978-0201379228
eBook: http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook

PostScript, a revolutionary, device-independent page description language, is quickly becoming the industry standard for printing high-quality integrated text and graphics. It is a powerful, flexible language that has the ability to describe efficiently the appearance of text, images, and graphic material on the printed page.

Using numerous annotated examples and short programs, the tutorial provides a step-by-step guided tour of PostScript, highlighting those qualities that make it such a unique and powerful language. The cookbook offers a collection of some of the most useful techniques and procedures available to PostScript programmers.

Title PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
Author(s) Adobe Systems Inc
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (January 1, 1986)
Paperback 256 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10/ASIN: 0201101890
ISBN-13: 978-0201101898
eBook: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF

PostScript Language Program Design

Introduces the Postscript programming language, describes the imaging model, and discusses emulators, page design, program structure, scanned images, file merging, and error handling.

This book teaches the programming principles that are unique to the PostScript language with numerous, usable sample programs throughout. Setting text; writing emulators; constructing graphics; debugging programs, and more.

Title PostScript Language Program Design
Author(s) Glenn C. Reid
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (January 11, 1988)
Paperback 240 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10/ASIN: 0201143968
ISBN-13: 978-0201143966
eBook: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/GREENBK.PDF