Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition By David Pogue
December 2003
Pages: 776

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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 X: The Missing Manual is a panther, which is essentially a black leopard. 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 a generic Windows PC (a program he really, really wishes were available for the Mac). The Microsoft Word files were then transferred as quickly as possible across 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 was used to capture illustrations; Adobe Photoshop and Freehand were called in as required for touching them up.

The book was designed and laid out in Adobe InDesign 3.0 on a PowerBook G4 and Power Mac G4. The fonts used include Formata (as the sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face). 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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