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| Overview: The Big Picture | |
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| Contents: What's Inside | |
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| Preface: The Color management Conundrum | |
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| Why Did We Do This? | |
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| Understanding the Big Picture | |
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| Sweating the Details | |
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| Making It Flow | |
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| Why Did We Think We Could Do This? | |
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| How the Book Is Organized | |
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| Thank You! | |
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| Contacts and Resources | |
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| Introduction to Color Management | |
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| What Is Color? Reflections on Life | |
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| Where Is Color? | |
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| Light and the Color Event | |
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| The Object and the Color Event | |
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| The Color of White | |
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| The Observer and the Color Event | |
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| What's a Logarithm, and Why Should I Care? | |
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| Measuring Color | |
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| Where the Models Fail | |
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| Lessons for Color Management | |
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| Computers and Color: Color by the Numbers | |
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| Color by the Numbers | |
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| Why CMYK? | |
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| Pixels, Dots, and Dithers | |
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| How the Numbers Work | |
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| Color Definitions and Colors | |
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| Why the Numbers Vary | |
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| Device-Specific Color Models | |
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| Device-Independent Color Models | |
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| LAB Limitations | |
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| Alphabet Soup | |
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| Mismatching-the Limits of the Possible | |
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| Color is Complex | |
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| Color Management: How It Works | |
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| The Genesis of Color Management | |
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| The WYSIWYG Myth | |
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| The Components of Color Management | |
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| The ICC-Some Historical Perspective | |
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| What Does CMM Stand For? | |
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| Why Do We Need CMMs At All? | |
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| Color Management in Action | |
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| Conversions and Data Loss | |
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| Color Management Is Simple | |
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| All About Profiles: Describing Devices | |
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| What Are Device Profiles? | |
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| Matrix-Based vs. Table-Based ICC Profiles | |
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| Profile Limitations | |
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| Using Profiles-Source and Destination | |
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| Generic Profiles | |
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| Color Space Profiles | |
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| Good Profiles | |
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| Building and Tuning Profiles | |
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| Measurement, Calibration, and Process Control: "The Map Is Not the Territory" | |
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| Keeping Track of Device Drift | |
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| The Multiple Roles of Measurement | |
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| Working Outside the System | |
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| Building Display Profiles: Your Window to Color | |
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| Display Calibration | |
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| Calibration and Profiling Tools | |
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| Muddying the Waters | |
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| Choosing Calibration Settings | |
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| Before Calibration | |
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| Precalibration-Setting the Analog Controls | |
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| Calibration and Profiling | |
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| Saving the Monitor Profile | |
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| Visual Calibration | |
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| Piece of Cake | |
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| Building Input Profiles: Starting Out Right | |
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| Input Profile Basics | |
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| Building Scanner Profiles | |
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| Building Digital Camera Profiles | |
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| Starting Out Right | |
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| Building Output Profiles: Final Destinations | |
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| Measuring Instruments | |
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| Profiling Packages | |
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| Profile Creation | |
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| Getting Good Data | |
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| Opening and Printing the Target | |
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| Profiling RGB Inkjet Printers | |
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| Comparing Colors | |
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| Profiling True RGB Printers | |
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| Profiling Three-Color Dye-Sub Printers | |
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| Profiling Composite CMYK Printers | |
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| Ink Limiting | |
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| Black Generation | |
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| Profiling Printing Presses | |
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| Don't Profile the Press?! | |
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| Profile the Press Once | |
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| Optimized or Standardized Press Behavior | |
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| Intentionally Non-Linear | |
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| Profiling Multichannel Printers | |
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| Checking the Map | |
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| Evaluating and Editing Profiles: Color Orienteering | |
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| Judging the Map | |
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| Viewing Environment | |
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| Counting Photons | |
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| Evaluating Profiles | |
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| Checking the Display | |
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| Input Profiles | |
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| Measurements to Pixels and Back | |
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| Objective Objectives | |
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| Output Profiles | |
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| ColorThink Pro | |
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| Edit, Reprofile, or Update? | |
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| Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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| Applications and Workflow | |
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| Color Management Workflow: Where the Rubber Meets the Road | |
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| What Is Color Management Workflow? | |
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| When to Convert | |
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| Conveying Color Meaning | |
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| Premature Binding | |
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| Terminology: Tagging, Assigning, Embedding, and Assuming | |
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| Workflow Within a Program | |
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| Soft-Proofing Basics | |
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| Workflow Between Programs | |
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| Workflow Into and Out of Color Management | |
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| Fear of Embedding | |
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| Understanding Workflow | |
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| Color Management in the Operating System: Who Does What to Whom, When? | |
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| ColorSync and ICM | |
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| Mac OS 9 | |
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| Mac OS X Panther (10.3.x) | |
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| The Generics | |
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| QuickDraw, GDI, and Quartz | |
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| Windows | |
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| Preview | |
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| Color Management in Applications | |
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| CUPS | |
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| Color Management in Printer Drivers | |
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| Color Management in Scanner Drivers | |
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| East Is East, West Is West | |
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| The Adobe Common Color Architecture: Color Management in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator | |
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| Color Settings-Command Central for Color | |
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| Manual Assignments and Conversions | |
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| Color Managing Imported Graphics | |
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| Simulations and Soft-Proofing | |
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| Printing | |
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| Adobe Camera Raw | |
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| The Same, But Different | |
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| Color Management in Macromedia FreeHand 10 and 11: Capable But Quirky | |
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| FreeHand's Color Preferences | |
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| Manual Assignments | |
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| Exporting | |
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| Printing | |
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| Be Careful | |
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| Color Management in CoreIDRAW 10: It Manages Everything But Its Own Files | |
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| Color Management Preferences | |
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| Importing | |
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| Manual Controls | |
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| Exporting | |
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| Printing | |
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| Strengths and Weaknesses | |
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| Color Management in QuarkXPress: Incremental Improvements | |
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| Turning It Off | |
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| Turn Off QuarkXPress 3 CMS (Mac OS Only) | |
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| Built-in Color Management | |
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| Color Management Preferences | |
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| Manual Controls | |
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| Printing | |
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| Hard Proofing | |
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| Compass Pro XT | |
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| The 800-Pound Gorilla | |
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| Color Management and PDF: The Wave of the Future | |
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| The Flavors of PDF | |
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| Distiller 5 | |
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| Acrobat 5 | |
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| Distiller 6 | |
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| Acrobat 6 | |
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| InDesign CS Export PDF | |
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| Third-Party Stuff | |
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| The Wave of the Future | |
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| Automation and Scripting: The Smart Way To Be Lazy | |
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| Why Automate? | |
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| Color Servers | |
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| DeviceLink Profiles | |
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| Prepress Solutions | |
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| In-RIP Color Management | |
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| Scripting | |
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| The Automation Trade-Off | |
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| Building Color-Managed Workflows: Bringing It All Together | |
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| The Four Stages of Color Management | |
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| Determining Your Needs | |
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| Workflow Tools | |
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| LAB-The Great Normalizer | |
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| Final Analysis | |
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| One Pixel's Journey | |
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| The Devil Is in the Details | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Profile Anatomy | |
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| Workflow Templates | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |