AppleWorks 6: the Missing Manual By Jim Elferdink, David Reynolds
May 2000
Pages: 453

Cover | Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

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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. The authors regret to report that they did not write the text of this book in AppleWorks 6---not because it isn't up to the task, nor that the authors wouldn't have loved to, but because publishing industry staffers (and PageMaker) accept nothing but Microsoft Word. From their various Pogue Press "branch offices" in California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, the creative team generated the chapters as Word files, using a couple of Power Macs and an assortment of PowerBooks. The graphics were created in Apple Works 6 and captured with Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro 2 (www.ambrosiasw.com); Adobe Photoshop (www.adobe.com) and Macromedia FreeHand (www.macromedia.com) were called in as required for touching them up.

The book was designed and laid out in Adobe PageMaker 6.5 on a Power Mac 8500 and Power Mac G3. The fonts used include Formata (as the sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face). To provide the apple and figs command symbols, a custom font was created using Macromedia Fontographer. The index was created using EZ Index, a Mac-only shareware indexing program by John Holder, available at www.northcoast.com/~jvholder. The book was then generated as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for proof-reading, indexing, and final transmission to the printing plant.

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