Thinking in PostScript
by Glenn C. Reid · first published 1990
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…development environment (PSAlter) that made it quite palatable -- visualising dictionaries and stacks -- and made it possible to step through programs. There exists a nice free e-book describing PostScript (Thinking in PostScript by Glenn C. Reid) [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000914161447/http://www.rightb... EDIT While looking for the Thinking in PostScript book mentioned above, I stumbled upon this legal online…
on “NeWS – Network Extensible Window System” ↗Anyone interested in learning postscript should also consider Glenn Reid's Thinking in PostScript. I think it is a better introduction than the blue book. Reid is also listed on the title page as the author of the green book.
on “PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]” ↗I think the library system does a good job of that. For example, here's the WorldCat entry for Thinking in PostScript[1] that shows its 4 editions physically available at 107 libraries. It's also available as an eBook and (since 2024) on Archive.org[2] Which highlights why Archive.org is so important as an archival…
on “Librarians Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI” ↗…PostScript algorithmic procedures and classes and libraries and application required to draw it. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/psiber/cyber/distill.ps.txt Glenn Reid, who also wrote books on PostScript like Thinking in PostScript, pioneered that idea in his "PostScript Language Distillery", which is the idea that grew into PDF. http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/postscript/newerstill.ps.... Here's a post I wrote about printing…
on “Weaponizing PostScript” ↗Yes, and Brian Reid and Glenn Reid, who wrote the Adobe PostScript "Green Book" aka "PostScript Language Program Design", and "Thinking in PostScript", the PostScript "The Distillery", and "TouchType" for the NeXT, are brothers! https://freecomputerbooks.com/PostScript-Language-Program-De... https://freecomputerbooks.com/Thinking-in-Postscript.html…
on “Adobe's co-founder John Warnock dies at 82” ↗…algorithmic procedures and classes and libraries and application required to draw it. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/psiber/cyber/distill.ps.txt >Glenn Reid, who also wrote books on PostScript like Thinking in PostScript, pioneered that idea in his "PostScript Language Distillery", which is the idea that grew into PDF. http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/postscript/newerstill.ps.... Glenn tells me that the PostScript…
on “Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems (2013)” ↗…algorithmic procedures and classes and libraries and application required to draw it. http://www.donhopkins.com/home/psiber/cyber/distill.ps.txt >Glenn Reid, who also wrote books on PostScript like Thinking in PostScript, pioneered that idea in his "PostScript Language Distillery", which is the idea that grew into PDF. http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/postscript/newerstill.ps.... Glenn tells me that the PostScript…
on “Logo Programming” ↗