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          <rev user="Kris" timestamp="2017-04-06T10:02:00Z" comment="" contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">=Thoughtbridges=

'Scripting For Graphics Designers' is a work-in-progress. I started out writing it as a book, then decided to convert it to a Wiki instead. Progress is very slow.

While I am converting over the book to Wiki format, here is a download link for the PDF of the unfinished book:

https://www.rorohiko.com/downloads/ScriptingForGraphicsDesigners.pdf

Wiki:

[[Scripting For Graphics Designers]] (Adobe Creative Suite)

[[Communicating Of Metapatterns]]

[[Metapatterns|Metapattern_Codes]]

[[Appendix]]</rev>
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