Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
CHAPTER 1
IMPORTING
Okay, if you're reading this chapter intro,
then it's safe to assume that you read my
brief warning (given just a page earlier), that
these chapter intros have little, if anything, to
do with what's actually in the chapter ahead.
These are here strictly to give you a quick
mental break from all the learning. Of course
where it kind of falls apart is right here at the
beginning of the topic, because…well…you
haven't really learned anything at this point, so
you probably don't need a metal break quite
yet. Of course, this concerns me, but clearly
not enough to actually skip having a chapter
intro for Chapter One, because then this page
would be blank, and if there's one thing I've
learned—people don't like blank pages. That's
why in some books when you see a blank page,
it says, “This page intentionally left blank.” This
fascinates me, partly because they never tell
you why it's intentionally left blank and partly
because, since they've printed the sentence
“This page intentionally left blank,” the page
isn't actually blank anymore. So really, the
whole thing's a big blank page scam, but if
you call them on it, they start talking about
“printers' spreads” and “pagination for press”
and “propaganda spread by subversive anti-
government organizations” and a dozen other
technical reasons why sometimes a page has
to be left blank. Well, I don't want you to
think that this page was part of a their larger
conspiracy, so even though you didn't actually
need a mental break at this point (but prob-
ably do now), you're still getting one. In the
publishing world, this is called “paying it for-
ward.” By the way, that's not what it's really
called, but what it's really called can only be
included on pages that were intentionally left
blank. (Hey, I warned you these intros would
be like this.)
