Blue Book
1. <publication> Informal name for one of the four standard references on the page-layout and graphics-control language
PostScript.
The other three official guides are known as the
Green Book, the
Red Book, and the
White Book.
["PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook", Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley 1985, (ISBN 0-201-10179-3)].
2. <publication> Informal name for one of the three standard references on Smalltalk.
This book also has green and red siblings.
["Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation", David Robson, Addison-Wesley 1983, (ISBN 0-201-11371-63)].
3. <publication> Any of the 1988 standards issued by the
ITU-T's ninth plenary assembly.
These include, among other things, the
X.400 electronic mail specification and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards.
See also
book titles.
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