Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Second Edition By David Pogue
October 2002
Pages: 725

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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. Due to an annoying and permanent wrist ailment, the author wrote this book by voice, using Dragon Naturally Speaking on a Windows PC. The Microsoft Word files were then transferred (courtesy of Jaguar's new ability to see PCs on the same network) to a Power Mac G4 and a PowerBook G4, where they were edited and transmitted to the book's editors and technical reviewers. The screenshots were captured with Ambrosia Software's Snapz Pro X (www.ambrosiasw.com). Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Freehand (www.adobe.com) were called in as required for touching them up.

The book was designed and laid out in Adobe PageMaker 6.5 on a PowerBook G3 and Power Mac G4. The fonts used include Formata (as the sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face). To provide the apple logo and figs command symbols, a custom font was created using Macromedia Fontographer.

The book was generated as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for proofreading and indexing, and finally transmitted to the printing plant in the form of PostScript files.

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