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The tool on the cover of PDF Hacks is a sledge hammer. The sledge hammer is a heavy hammer with a long handle designed to drive wedges or stakes. While handheld hammers rarely weigh more than four pounds, sledge hammers generally range in weight from six to twelve pounds. The head of the sledge hammer is usually fashioned from forged steel, and the handle is typically wood or fiberglass. In olden times, blacksmiths used the sledge hammer to forge metal.

Brian Sawyer was the production editor and proofreader for PDF Hacks. Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor. Emily Quill and Darren Kelly provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a photograph from the Stockbyte Work Tools CD. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.11 using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Julie Hawks 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.

Brian Sawyer saved this book's FrameMaker source files to PostScript format and then used Acrobat Distiller to create final PDF versions to send to the printer. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue 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. This colophon was written by Sanders Kleinfeld.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Ellie Cutler) using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, Ellie Cutler, and Jeff Liggett.