Two interesting documents produced with Scribe were the 1985 editions of Adobe’s red and blue books, the PostScript Language Reference Manual and PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook, published by Addison-Wesley. The colophon in the blue book explains the publishing workflow:
Camera-ready copy for this book was created entirely with
PostScript and printed on a Linotron 101 at Adobe Systems
Incorporated. The book was created with the aid of the Scribe
Document Production System (a product of Unilogic, Ltd.) as a
Scribe document definition. The illustrations were PostScript
program segments which Scribe integrated and placed on the
pages along with the formatted text portions.
Successive drafts of the book were processed with Scribe, each
time generating a single PostScript print file. The book was
proofed when needed by printing the file on an Apple
LaserWriter PostScript printer. The final version was printed
without modification on a Linotype Linotron 101 typesetter and
delivered to Addison-Wesley. No manual paste-up of any kind
was required.
