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iWork '05: The Missing Manual
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iWork '05: The Missing Manual

by Jim Elferdink
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
408 pages
12h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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In the spirit of full disclosure, the author regrets to report that he did not write the text of this book in Pages—not because it isn't up to the task, nor that he wouldn't have loved to, but because publishing industry staffers (and FrameMaker) prefer to receive Microsoft Word.

Unable to fulfill a lifelong dream of having a personal secretary he could summon with an authoritative punch of the intercom and a commanding, "Come in here Miss Butler, please—and bring your pad," the author did the next best thing and wrote most of the book using voice-dictation software. Since there's nothing comparable available for the Mac, he used Dragon NaturallySpeaking on a Windows laptop, then rushed the Word files over the network to a Power Mac G4, where they were spell-checked, illustrated, and transmitted to the book's editors. Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro X was used to capture illustrations; Adobe Photoshop was called in as required for touching them up.

Sarah Sherman was the production editor and proofreader for iWork '05: The Missing Manual. Phil Dangler and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index.

Marcia Friedman designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by David Freedman, and produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's Minion and Gill Sans fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout, based on a series design by Phil Simpson. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion ...

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