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For anyone who wants to type or paste into the Code textarea: * https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/papers/BLUEBOOK.pdf https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hay
by leoc 5mo ago
For anyone who wants to type or paste into the Code textarea:
* https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/papers/BLUEBOOK.pdf https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/papers/BLUEBOOK.pdf The PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook (the "Blue Book") (principally) by Linda Gass and John Deubert, 1986 (ISBN 0-201-10179-3)
* https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf The PostScript Language Reference (third ed.—a later edition of the "Red Book") (principally) by Ed Taft, Steve Chernicoff and Caroline Rose, 1999 (ISBN 0-201-27922-8)
* https://connor.zip/resources/pdfs/adobe-green-book.pdf https://connor.zip/resources/pdfs/adobe-green-book.pdf PostScript Language Program Design (the "Green Book") by (principally) by Glenn Reid, 1988 (ISBN 0-201-14396-8). A zipfile with Green Book code files: https://web.archive.org/web/20110613223722/http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/sdk/sample/GreenBook.zip https://web.archive.org/web/20110613223722/http://partners.a...
(At first my retro-ps tab got itself into a state in which it would not run any code entered into the Code textarea, instead timing out and returning an error; and since page reload is soft-disabled you'll have to either force a reload or open a new tab. Also, since the Abobe sample code uses indentation extensively—for example the Blue Book's official "hello world" program is
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144 432 lineto
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—it would be nice if the Code textarea handled Tab keyboard inputs.
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- leoc 5mo agoSome pages with more PostScript book recommendations and sometimes links (I'm no authority myself): https://luc.devroye.org/lucbps.html https://luc.devroye.org/lucbps.html https://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/psdocs/Books.html https://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/psdocs/Books.html https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/9a50d0ba14fe975906ea8788a352e269 https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/9a50d0ba14fe975906ea8788a3...