Books on PostScript
Official Adobe books
Adobe has published most of these with different coloured covers.
The books are often referred to by their colour, rather than
the official title.
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PostScript Language Reference, 3rd Edition
- Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1998,
ISBN 0-201-37992-8.
Known as the Red Book
This is the definitive description of the PostScript language.
The previous edition might still be available in book stores:
PostScript Language Reference Manual, 2nd Edition
Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1990,
ISBN 0-201-18127-4.
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PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
- Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1986,
ISBN 0-201-10179-3.
Known as the Blue Book
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PostScript Language Program Design
- Adobe Systems Incorporated, Addison-Wesley, 1990,
ISBN 0-201-14396-8.
Known as the Green Book
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Adobe Type 1 Font Format
- Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1990,
ISBN 0-201-57044-0.
Black cover.
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Programming the Display PostScript System with X
- Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1993,
ISBN 0-201-62203-3.
Orange?? cover
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Programming the Display PostScript System with Next
- Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1991,
ISBN 0-201-58135-3.
Purple?? cover
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Portable Document Format Reference Manual
- Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Addison-Wesley, 1993,
ISBN 0-201-62628-4.
You will also need the 1.1 updates from the Adobe WWW site.
The entire PDF 1.2 manual is available from the
Adobe WWW site.
Grey cover.
Other books
See the
comp.lang.postscript FAQ for a list of about 50 books.
- PostScript & Acrobat/PDF
(German: »Die PostScript- und Acrobat-Bibel«)
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by Thomas Merz
Last updated 2001-04-19.