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Contribution
The Amapi Pro documentation was written by Sylvie Gateuil
The Amapi Pro documentation add-on was written by Thomas Roussel and Pascal Doux
The translation has been made by Blaise Zapparata, Laurent Billy and Pascal Doux.
Amapi Pro development team:
Pascal Doux, Xavier Durand, Mickael Gasrel, Maxime Rouca, Thomas Roussel.
Thanks to those who have participated to the Amapi Pro development:
Laurent Billy, Emmanuel Rémia, Thierry Duvignac, Olivier Gardinetti, Fabrice Sadaune.
Thanks
This manual would not have existed without the help and support of Philip Staiger and Blaise Zapparata.
We would like to express our gratitude for the active involvement
that Pierre Bretagnolle and RichardEnjalbert gave us in the formal and functional specifications
of the program and for the graphical user interface graphic design.
Pierre and Richard took part in the program validation phase and the design
of the 3D objects supplied with Amapi Pro.
Many thanks to Emmanuel Rémia who created the model for the cover.
Many thanks to Valérie Berth, Lori Izabelle and Matthew Schultz
for the validation of the English translation of this manual.
Thanks also to all the beta-testers who helped us enthusiastically
during the program validation phase and particularly to Olivier Drion!
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Use the right, left, up, and down
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