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Preface - About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses various conventions to present information. Words that require special treatment appear in specific fonts or font styles. Certain information, such as parameter blocks, appears in special formats so that you can scan it quickly.

Special Fonts

All code listings, reserved words, and the names of actual data structures, constants, fields, parameters, and routines are shown in Letter Gothic (this is Letter Gothic).

Words that appear in boldface are key terms or concepts and are defined in the glossary at the end of Advanced Color Imaging on the Mac OS.

Types of Notes

There are several types of notes used in this book.

Note

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IMPORTANT

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WARNING

Warnings like this indicate potential problems that you should be aware of as you design your application. Failure to heed these warnings could result in system crashes or loss of data.<8batcolor>s

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