Colophon

Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects.

The animal on the cover of Jakarta Struts Cookbook is a tragopan. Tragopans, or horned pheasants, are found along the Himalayas from Kashmir to central and southeastern China. Male tragopans are among the world's most spectacular birds because of their brilliant array of colors and spots, long crown feathers, and blue crests. In villages near the Great Himalayan National Park, the western tragopan has earned the local name Jujurana, or "the king of the birds." There, legend has it that when this pheasant was created, every bird in the universe donated a feather to give it color and unparalleled beauty. Female tragopans, on the other hand, are rather dull looking. Even breeders sometimes find it difficult to distinguish hens of one species from those of another.

Tragopans feed on insects, leaves, sprouts, and seeds, and are thought to be monogamous. Although incubation is done entirely by the female, the male may assist in tending the chicks. Most tragopans are good breeders in captivity, adapting well to various cold-weather climates and becoming quite tame.

There are five species of tragopans, four of which are in danger of extinction due to the destruction of their habitats. Unlike most fowl, tragopans live at very high elevations ranging from 925 to 3,650 meters. In the winter, they are typically found in the thickest parts of pine trees, but during mating season, they travel upward to the extreme limits of the forest. Finding a high branch, the male western tragopan establishes a territorial perch from which he calls at five-minute intervals. His call, which some have described as similar to that of a goose or young lamb, can be heard for more than a mile.

Matt Hutchinson was the production editor for Jakarta Struts Cookbook . GEX, Inc. provided production services. Darren Kelly, Mary Anne Weeks Mayo, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout, based on his own series design. 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. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad 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 MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Lydia Onofrei.

The online edition of this book was created by the Safari production group (John Chodacki, Ken Douglass, 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.