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Preface - About This Book

Who Should Use This Book

This book is written for people who design and develop guide files and integrate them into their applications. It applies to anyone who falls into one or more of the following categories:

• For instructional designers, it helps you plan and design guide files.
• For scriptors, it provides you with the necessary instruction to begin writing the Guide Script files that describe guide files. It shows you how to create and test guide files using Guide Maker.
• For developers, it shows you how to integrate guide files into general-purpose applications that run under System 7.5 and later.

This book is suitable for instructional designers who have some background in developing reference documentation but little if any programming experience, for scriptors who have some scripting experience but not Guide Script experience, and for developers who have some programming experience but not necessarily Macintosh programming experience.

This book is most suitable for those who are familiar with the concepts and terminology used with Macintosh computers, who have used a Macintosh computer and a few of its applications, and who are aware of the information described in the book Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines.