COLOPHON

Due to an annoying and permanent wrist ailment, the author wrote this book by voice, using Dragon Naturally Speaking on an assortment of old and new PCs. The book was created in Microsoft Word XP, whose revision-tracking feature made life far easier as drafts were circulated from author to technical and copy editors. SnagIt (www.techsmith.com) was used to capture illustrations; Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Macromedia Freehand MX were called in as required for touching them up.

The book was designed and laid out in Adobe InDesign CS2 on a PowerBook G4, and Power Mac G5. The fonts used include Formata (as the sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face). To provide the and symbols, custom fonts were created using Macromedia Fontographer.