title: PostScript Language Reference (3rd Edition)
author: Adobe Systems  Inc.
description: Programmers who specialize in PostScript, the page-description language, now have a newly updated reference guide for LanguageLevel 3. <i>PostScript Language Reference</i> starts off with a bit of history on the language and an overview of the new version. It goes on to cover basic topics such as raster output devices, scan conversion, and page-description languages in general.
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