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Date: Sun 22-Apr-1991 12:30:26 From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) Subject: Glenn Reid's Thinking in PostScript I've been asked by a correspondent to supply more information about Glenn Reid's book. My correspondent also asks whether the posting of book reviews might be appropriate for these newsgroups, an idea with which I enthusiastically agree. Glenn is a frequent poster here, and has delicately not referred to his book. For a long time, he has been a major source of reliable and useful information about PostScript. He's currently at RightBrain software, makers of TouchType (apparently as a consultant). Before that he was at NeXT, before that at Adobe. It seems reasonable to conclude he knows what he's talking about. He is unfailingly a pleasant person who seems genuinely committed to the idea that it's good to help people who want to learn useful things. He's also the author of PostScript Language Program Design, published by Adobe/Addison-Wesley. I can't review the book, which I've only just obtained and have only skimmed. But for those who are interested in PS programming, here's the publication data. Reid, Glenn C. Thinking in PostScript ISBN 0-201-52372-8 Addison-Wesley (list $22.95 in the US) xiii+221p. "This book is intended to provide a practical, intriguing, and fresh look at the PostScript programming language.... This book helps you build a solid foundation of understanding for the PsotScript language. It teaches you to become an expert programmer and to have confidence that you have written the best possible PostScript program. It shows you how to combine the elements of the langugage into a strong, well-designed, modular program that is easy to develop and maintain. It is not a problem-solving book, nor simply a reference to the language; it is a guide to developing programming techniques and to learning how to use the PostScript tool kit, which is filled with hundreds of operators." person mentioned above. <> Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken <> seriously. -- Iris Murdoch
Date: Sun 22-Apr-1991 16:36:29 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu Subject: Re: Glenn Reid's Thinking in PostScript In article <1991Apr22.123026.23299@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes: whether the posting of book reviews might be appropriate for these newsgroups, an idea with which I enthusiastically agree. Bar none, my favorite intro-to-PostScript book is: Learning PostScript, A Visual Approach Ross Smith ISBN# 0-938-151-12-6 $22.95 PeachPit Press 1085 Keith Ave Berkeley, CA 94708 415 527 8555 415 524 9775 (fax) 800 283 9444 The book consists of a page of PostScript graphics faced by a page which contains the PostScript code necessary to generate the image. The book nicely proceeds from the simple to the sublime, and embodies an interactive learning technique. I heartily recommend it.
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