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Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical
topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry
subjects.
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
Windows XP Annoyances is a Surinam
toad (also known as Pipa Pipa). Surinam toads are entirely aquatic,
never venturing onto land from the dark, muddy South American rivers
where they dwell. Adapted to life in a constantly murky environment,
the eyes of the Surinam toad are little more than small dark spots
on its evenly brown body. Adult toads are about six inches long with
a broad, flat, almost rectangular appearance. They have large,
heavily webbed hind feet and small sensory feelers on their front
feet and around their mouths. They use these feelers to aid in the
search for food along the muddy river bottom. Once a morsel is
located, the toad uses its front feet to stir up the water and swish
the food into its gaping, tongueless mouth. It will consume anything
it can swallow, dead or alive.
Surinam toads are remarkable even among the
several other similar species of aquatic frogs. Rather than
depositing her eggs in a secluded location and leaving their fate to
chance, the female toad relies on the male to direct the fertilized
eggs onto the softened skin of her back. Over the course of several
hours the skin swells and completely envelopes the eggs. Here the
young remain for several months until metamorphosis is complete,
emerging as tiny, fully developed toads.
Sarah Sherman was the production editor and
copyeditor for Windows XP Annoyances.
Mary Brady, Claire Cloutier, and Matt Hutchinson provided quality
control. Tom Dinse wrote the index.
Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this
book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is
a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma
Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's
ITC Garamond font.
David Futato designed the interior layout. This
book was converted to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool
created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra
that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka;
the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is
LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in
the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using
Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. The tip and warning
icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by
Sarah Sherman.
The online edition of this book was created by
the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and
Madeleine Newell) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup
tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki,
and Jeff Liggett. |
