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Preface - About This Book

Chapter Organization

This book contains an introductory chapter, two tutorial chapters, and three reference chapters. Each of the tutorial chapters follows the same structure. For example, the chapter "Printing Extensions" contains these major sections:

• "About Printing Extensions." This section provides an overview of printing extensions.
• "Writing Printing Extensions." This section describes how to develop a printing extension. It uses a detailed walk-through of a sample extension to provide code examples.
• "Using Resources in Printing Extensions." This section describes the resources that you use to implement a printing extension and provides examples of these resources from the sample program.

The three reference chapters follow a standard general structure. For example, the chapter "Printing Functions for Message Overrides" contains these major sections:

• "About The Printing Functions." This sections provides an overview of the printing functions that you can call from within your implementation of a printing message override.
• "Using The Printing Functions." This section describes how you can use the printing messages in your message overrides for various purposes. It describes how to use the most common functions, gives related user-interface information, provides code samples, and supplies additional information.
• "Printing Functions Reference." This section provides a complete reference to the printing functions that you can use in message overrides by describing the functions along with the constants and data types that you use with them. Each function description follows a standard format, which gives the function declaration; a description of every parameter; the function result, if any; and a list of result codes. Most function descriptions give additional information about using the function and include cross-references to related information elsewhere. Each function description also includes a list of the error codes that can be returned by the function as a result.
• "Summary of Printing Functions." This shows the C interface for the printing functions and their associated constants and data types.

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