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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 generic Windows PC. To avoid further contamination, the Microsoft Word files were then transferred as quickly as possible to a Power Mac G4, where they were edited, illustrated, and transmitted to the book's editors and technical reviewers. The screen images in this book were captured by Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro 2 (www.ambrosiasw.com); DV footage frames were grabbed from the iMovie Monitor window or using Photo DV (www.digitalorigin.com); Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (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, which is available at www.northcoast.com/~jvholder. The book was then generated as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for proofreading, indexing, and final transmission to the printing plant.

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