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.

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.
PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-10179-3.
Known as the Blue Book
PostScript Language Program Design: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-14396-8.
Known as the Green Book
Adobe Type 1 Font Format: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0.
Black cover.
Programming the Display PostScript System with X: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-62203-3.
Orange?? cover
Programming the Display PostScript System with Next: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Addison-Wesley, 1991, ISBN 0-201-58135-3.
Purple?? cover
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.

See the comp.lang.postscript FAQ for a list of about 50 books.

PostScript & Acrobat/PDF (German: »Die PostScript- und Acrobat-Bibel«): by Thomas Merz

Last updated 2001-04-19.