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This manual has been available on this site since about 1996, with improvements taking place frequently. The current version has been published as a book of about 350 pages by Cambridge University Press. By agreement with the Press, however, it will remain posted on this web site. Many improvements in the current version over previous ones are due to the (anonymous) referees of the Press, whom I wish to thank heartily. I also wish to thank Lauren Cowles, of the New York office of the Press, for much help with preparing the original version for publication. The paper edition appears also in Duotone red and black. For information on obtaining the paper edition, take a look at the Cambridge Press catalogue. From January 1, 2004 on, no changes except simple error corrections will be made to the main body of the text here --- at least for a while. Corrections to both paper and web editions will be found below. I am grateful to all those who have pointed out errors or lacunae in older versions of this manual, and I hope readers will continue to send me mail about what they find - both good and bad - at [email protected]. |
| Copyright 2005 by Bill Casselman. Permission is granted for users of this resource to make one copy for their own personal use. Further reproduction is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the copyright holder. |
Introductory
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GhostScript home pages.
You will probably want to set it as the program with which your browser reads
.ps files (of type application/postscript).
Preface
Table of contents (for the entire text)
Chapters 1 - 15
Chapter 1 - Getting started
Chapter 2 - Elementary coordinate geometry
Chapter 3 - Variables and procedures
Chapter 4 - Coordinates and conditionals
Chapter 5 - Loops and arrays
Chapter 6 - Curves
Interlude
Chapter 7 - Procedures as arguments
Chapter 8 - Non-linear transformations in
2D
Chapter 9 - Recursion in PostScript
Chapter 10 - Perspective and homogeneous
coordinates
Chapter 11 - Introduction to drawing in 3D
Chapter 12 - Rigid motion in 3D
Chapter 13 - PostScript in 3D
Chapter 14 - Drawing surfaces in 3D
Chapter 15 - The regular polyhedra
Appendices
Appendix 1 - Summary of important PostScript commands
Appendix 2 - Setting up your PostScript
environment
Appendix 3 - Structured PostScript documents
Appendix 4 - Simple text display
Appendix 5 - Zooming
Appendix 6 - Evaluating polynomials
Appendix 7 - Importing PostScript files
Epilogue
Graphics style in exposition
Supplement
Another way to construct the regular polyhedra
A better version of Hodgman-Sutherland
Code samples and packages
The plural pictures means there are several pages.Other references on PostScript
The following official guides from Adobe are available on line:Other technical (very technical) documentation is also on line at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/ps/index.jsp and http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/ps/technotes.jsp. You can retrieve here, among other things, an earlier edition of the reference manual.
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