Blue Book: N. 1. Informal Name For One Of The Three Standard References On The Page-layout And Graphics-control Language {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Tutorial And Cookbook

Blue Book: N. 1. Informal Name For One Of The Three Standard References On The Page-layout And Graphics-control Language {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Tutorial And Cookbook

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:Blue Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard
references on the page-layout and graphics-control language
{{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook",
Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley 1985, QA76.73.P67P68, ISBN
0-201-10179-3); the other three official guides are known as the
{Green Book}, the {Red Book}, and the {White Book} (sense
2). 2. Informal name for one of the three standard references on
Smalltalk: "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its
Implementation", David Robson, Addison-Wesley 1983, QA76.8.S635G64,
ISBN 0-201-11371-63 (this book also has green and red siblings).
3. Any of the 1988 standards issued by the CCITT's ninth plenary
assembly. These include, among other things, the X.400 email spec
and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. See also {{book
titles}}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary

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Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
Green Book: n. 1. One of the three standard {{PostScript}} reference
PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988...
Green Book n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript reference
PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988...
Red Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
Blue Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on the page-layout and graphics-control language PostScript ("PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley 1985, QA76.73.P67P68, ISBN 0-201-10179-3)...
White Book n. 1. Syn. K&R. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fo
Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0)....
White Book: n. 1. Syn. {K&R}. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fo
Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0)....
cookbook: [from amateur electronics and radio] n. A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs.
One current example is the "{{PostScript}} Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the {Blue Book} which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts....
cookbook n. [from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs.
One current example is the "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the Blue Book which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts....