Introduction

This is my first book with Rocky Nook. In fact, it’s my first book ever. So I need to make this introduction count. If you don’t believe me, check out my acknowledgments—I am milking this moment!

Many moons ago I found my first experience in computer design to be in desktop publishing, back in the day when it was still called that. I began my computer-aided design with Quark Xpress; you remember them? Anyway, DTP, as it was abbreviated back then, enabled me to make forms, small booklets, and stationery. Given that I used to use paper, scissors, and glue, it was a futuristic technological advancement to do this on a computer.

Time passed and I flirted with a few DTP software programs along the way—some were flings, others were longer-standing ...

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