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Acknowledgments
Thanks to the Technical Publications and
Graphics Engineering team for designing, writing, editing, illustrating, and
producing the Heidi Developer Guide, with special thanks to Rob Fjerstad,
manager of graphics engineering:
Matt
Arrott, Jack Bayt, Michael Butler, Merrill Camilleri, Carey Clutts, Zay
Collier, Bob Covey, John Falkner, Ashu Goel, Subu Gupta, Tanvir Hassan, Billy
Hsu, Norbert Jeske, Erik Larsen, Jeff Kowalski, Mark Kumler, Brian Mathews,
Josh Natarajan, Usha Sanagala, Ben Sellers, Lourdes Sodari-Smith, Scott
Sheppard, Jim Stiefel, Natarajan Srinivasan, Dan Thompson, Corey Toler, Jon
Tyson, Eric Wagner, and Richard Weiss.
Thanks also to the Hardcopy
Engineering team for their work on the HDI Hardcopy supplement to the Heidi
Developer Guide:
Jack
Bayt, Terri Beausejour, Irene Corpuz, Umang Dhamija, Mark Feldman, Jack
Horng, Steve Iliff, Pramathesh Kumar, Mark Kumler, Charles Lee, Ram Mummidi,
Tim Scully, Rob Sinkler, Dan Thompson, and Daniel Yu.
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Richard Weiss based on the original specifications by Billy Hsu, Tim Scully,
Scott Sheppard and as noted in the text.
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