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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. The animal on the cover of Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual is a dog. It may be a distant relative of the Dogcow, the genetically dubious animal that appears in every Macintosh Page Setup dialog box. Due to a wrist ailment you really don't want to hear about, the author wrote the chapters of this book by voice, using Dragon Naturally Speaking on the Windows PC. The Microsoft Word files were then transferred as quickly as possible to a Power Mac G3, where they were spell-checked, illustrated, and transmitted to the book's editors. Abrosia Software's Snapz Pro 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 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 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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