References

  • PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook, Adobe Systems, Inc. Addison-Wesley, 1985. The “Blue Book” with many examples and recipes.

  • PostScript Language Reference Manual, Second Edition, Adobe Systems, Inc. Addison-Wesley, 1990. The “Red Book,” the official language reference.

  • PostScript by Example, by Henry McGilton and Mary Campione. Addison-Wesley, 1992. A good introduction to PostScript, similar in purpose to the Blue Book.

  • The Ghostscript Home Page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost

  • Adobe’s Document Structuring Conventions: available via http://partners.adobe.com/

  • The html2ps HTML to PostScript converter: http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

  • The PDF Specification: available via http://partners.adobe.com/

  • John Warnock’s original proposal for the Camelot project, which later became the PDF standard: http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=1851

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