Examples from the Blue book

These examples can be found in:

PostScript language tutorial and cookbook
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Reading, MA : Addison Wesley, 1985
ISBN 0-201-10179-3 (pbk.)

Click here to get bluebook.shar from ftp.adobe.com.

Basic Graphics

program 1 / Repeated Shaped
program 2 / Expanded and Constant Width Lines
program 3 / Elliptical Arcs
program 4 / Drawing Arrows
program 5 / Centered Dash Patterns
program 6 / Printing Images

Printing Text

program 7 / Printing with Small Caps
program 8 / Setting Fractions
program 9 / Vertical Text
program 10 / Circular Text
program 11 / Placing Text Along an Arbitrary Path

Applications

program 12 / A Simple Line Breaking Algorithm
program 13 / Making a Poster
program 14 / Drawing a Pie Chart
program 15 / Filling an Area with a Pattern

Modifying and Creating Fonts

program 16 / Making an Outline Font
program 17 / Re-encoding an Entire Font
program 18 / Making Small Changes to Encoding Vectors
program 19 / Changing the Character Width of a Font
program 20 / Creating an Analytic Font
program 21 / Creating a Bitmap font

Robbert Heederik - heederik@wins.uva.nl