Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual

By David Pogue

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. Due to an annoying and permanent wrist ailment, the author wrote the chapters of this book by voice, using Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Dell Diminsion 4100. The book was created in Microsoft Word XP, whose revision-tracking feature made life far easier as drafts were circulated from author to techincal and copy editors. SnagIt (www.techsmith.com) was used to capture illustrations; Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Freehand were called in as required for touching them up. The book was designed and laid out in Adobe PageMaker 6.5 on a PowerBook G3, PowerBook G4, and Power Mac G4. The fonts used include Formata (as the sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face).

The book was generated as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for proofreading and indexing, and final transmission to the printing plant in the form of PostScript files.

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