QuarkXPress 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Features

• Task-based—Information is broken down into concise, one- and two-page tasks.

  • Allows students to learn the most important tasks of a program or operating system and get right to work on any project.

• Step-by-Step—Numbered, easy-to-follow instructions.

  • Succinct numbered instructions provide a logical approach to learning tasks.

• Visual Reference—Plenty of screen shots illustrate the step-by-step instructions.

  • Visually demonstrates and reinforces the instructions for a particular task as the students work at their computers.

• Quick Reference Tabs—Tabs on each page identify the task.

  • Easy for the instructors and students to find a particular task and makes these texts useful after the course ends.

• Shaded sidebars.

  • Sections that call attention to important features and additional helpful information.

• Tips.

  • Highlighted through the book offer author advice, time-saving shortcuts, and pointers for students who want a further understanding of the program.

• Industry-leading Authors.

  • The authors are industry-leading teachers, writers, and designers, providing students with expert, professional training.

• Learning Objectives—Included in the Student Study Guide after each chapter.

  • Lists the main points students should learn from a chapter.

• Get Up and Running Exercises—Based on techniques introduced in a chapter.

  • Helps students synthesize and practice what they have learned.

• Class Discussion Questions.

  • Helps students review the chapter with their class or study group and explore concepts related to the tools and techniques explained in the chapter.

• Review Questions—Contains a set of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and definition questions.

  • Enables students to evaluate how well they have learned key details.

• Instructor Resources—Posted online. Includes expanded instructor notes and answers to all review questions.

  • Provides the tools to help teachers guide and evaluate their students.

Description

If you're like most designers and publishers who work with QuarkXPress, you've been waiting a long time for this release. In fact, you're probably one of the last people on your block to start using Mac OS X or Windows XP because you've been waiting for your most important application--QuarkXPress--to offer native support for either. Well, the wait is finally over, and here to get you up to speed on it quickly and easily is QuarkXPress 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. In these pages, best-selling authors and veteran educators Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas use task-based, step-by-step instruction and loads of visual aids to provide a soup-to-nuts grounding in QuarkXPress 6, including all that's new in this ground-breaking release: project files containing multiple layouts, Synchronized Text, improved table creation, and more. Progressing from the basics of planning and designing layouts, working with text, and creating and importing graphics to more advanced topics like exporting documents as Web pages and adding hyperlinks, this indispensable reference covers it all.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

 1. The Basics.


 2. Startup.


 3. Get Around.


 4. Text Input.


 5. Text Flow.


 6. Formats.


 7. Typography.


 8. Tables and Tabs.


 9. Pictures.


10. Multiple Items.


11. Pictures and Text.


12. Lines.


13. Style Sheets.


14. Master Pages.


15. Color.


16. Layers.


17. Search & Replace.


18. Beziers.


19. Web Documents.


20. Libraries.


21. Synchronized Text.


22. Books.


23. Preferences.


24. Print.


25. XML.


Appendix A. Special Characters.


Appendix B. Keyboard Shortcuts.


Index.

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