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This book was written on MacBook Air that remained attached to David Pogue like an appendage. It was typed in Microsoft Word, with substantial assistance from the typing-shortcut program TextExpander (www.smileonmymac.com).
The book’s screen illustrations were captured with Ambrosia Software’s Snapz Pro X (www.ambrosiasw.com), edited in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (www.adobe.com), and overlaid with labels, lines, and circles in Macromedia Freehand MX.
The author composed the index, entry by entry, using a highly tweaked FileMaker database and a clever Perl script that converted FileMaker’s output into a fully formatted index.
The book was designed and laid out in Adobe InDesign CS4 on a MacBook Pro and Mac Pro. The fonts include Formata (as the sans-serif family) and Minion (as the serif body face). To provide the symbols (
, ⌘, 
, and so on), Phil Simpson designed two custom fonts using Macromedia Fontographer.
The book was then exported as Adobe Acrobat PDF files for final transmission to the printing plant in Michigan.
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