Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format (PDF) offers a wealth of design possibilities which allow Web publishers to create intricate pages-beyond the capabilities of standard HTML. This book explains all that's needed to combine the structural advantages of HTML with the comprehensive layout possibilities of PDF. It presents many of the tricks for the dynamic generation of PDF data, as well as information on integrating Acrobat into CGI, JavaScript, VBScript, and Active Server Pages. The enclosed CD-ROM includes useful software tools and the Acrobat Reader.

Next-generation Web site development! Applying industrial-strength software engineering methods to Web site construction and management. Covers the entire lifecycle -- from needs analysis through testing and maintenance. Building sites for reuse, easier maintenance and scalability. Web sites that look great, and work great too! Balancing Web creativity with robustness and functionality.

Learn how to build your own World Wide Web server without really trying. Discusses the client-server story, Web page design, HTML Primer. BBEdit/PageMill Tutorial, HTML 3.0. Aesthetic Design. Gives valuable information on designing and serving up the Web
System Requirements: Macintosh or compatible running System 7 or later, CD-ROMdrive

Contents: Introduction, A Problem, A Solution Strategy, Engineering Our Solution, A Block Diagram and a Software Diagram, About Our Microprocessor, Inside the Microprocessor, Getting to the Outside: Addressing, Connecting the ROMs and RAMs, Getting to the I/O Chips, Controlling the Integrator, Looking up in the Tables, Interrupting the Microprocessor from the Comparator, Responding to the Comparator's Interrupt, Some "Housekeeping", A Look at Our Whole System, Another Way to Read Out, A Deeper Look Inside the Microprocessor, Computing with a Microprocessor, Looking Ahead: The Software Problem

Every user who's new to Windows 98 needs this book. This no-nonsense guide teaches the essential skills necessary for readers to use Microsoft's newest effectively at home or at the office. Each chapter presents hundreds of real-world examples that let readers learn the practical skills they need to succeed in today's marketplace. Not only is Windows 98 completely explained, but so is Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which now built into the operating system.

Offers practical, hands-on guidance in developing your own device drives. Clearly demonstrates how to write device drivers for adding disk drives, printers, magnetic tapes and other peripherals in your UNIX system. Presents procedures for developing and testing new device drivers including how to select a convenient working directory; use make files; preserve and boot alternative kernal versions; debug driver code and much more. Packed with examples which illustrate each operation in practice.

The only C++ based book on compilers and interpreters available, this revised edition shows your the ABC's of reading and listing a program, breaking it into tokens, parsing it and examining its syntax. Then it shows you how to build an actual interpreter and debugger and, finally, a compiler.

Every chapter in this popular guide has been thoroughly updated. It provides programmers and developers with the skills they need to write device drivers and get applications working. The author defines device drivers, explains how various components of the operating system interact, and where the drivers fit it. Covering full 32-Bit OS/2 2.1 drivers and migration from version 1.x drivers, the book explains how 32-bit drivers vary from their 16-bit counterparts, when 16-bit drives can be used in 32-bit applications, and new C language or operating system calls that are used.

Writing VAX/VMS Applications Using Pascal offers a practical approach based on actual experience and written specially from the programmer's point of view. Using numerous programming examples, it offers a clear, detailed methodology for producing high-quality applications.

More computer users and professionals who deal with PCs and workstations are learning UNIX. Now for the first time, two experts have prepared a complete UNIX dictionary. This easy-to use resource defines literally thousands of UNIX specific terms, and carefully cross-reference each one.

Here's a detailed technical overview of the security mechanisms used in commercial UNIX systems designed to help readers ensure that their UNIX system is correctly configured and operating in the most secure manner possible. Coverage provides all the details for security related functions within common UNIX versions, including information on the configuration and operation of network security services; file system and process security; monitoring security; security programming and standards; and security mailing lists.

This expanded edition features the latest data on the popular Bourne, C and Korn Shells. Explains how to maximize the power of UNIX though Shell programming, create software tools to simplify routine work and step behind the facade of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) to tap the potency of UNIX and Shell.

The challenge of this decade is to bring programming capabilities, simply and usefully, to people without special training in programming. Nan Shu presents a revolutionary approach to meet this challenge, Visual Programming was the first book to fully cover the progression of visual programming along two major directions: graphical techniques and visual languages. Now in paperback, the book also examines the multiplicity of ideas that have shaped the current state of the art, and discusses the efforts that have gone into making visual programming an exciting and promising field.

The book segment of this book/CD-ROM package contains visualization and imagery, basic principles of scientific visualization, and practical information on the use of various visualization analysis and image processing software. The CD-ROM demonstrates the power of scientific visualization using sound, animation, and video in Apple's Quick Time format and includes such software as Mathematica Notebooks and Mathreader (2.1) version.