QuarkXPress 4 Book, The

Description

For anyone serious about QuarkXPress, Òthe Blatner bookÓ is the book to have. It's the highest rated, most comprehensive, and best-selling QuarkXPress book ever published, with over 150,000 sold. Now totally updated and rewritten to cover the long-awaited QuarkXPress version 4, it includes new chapters on new QuarkXPress 4 features, such as Bezier drawing tools, long-document features, and Quark's new built-in Color Management System. ThereÕs also a new "QuarkXPress in 30 Minutes" intro chapter that helps newcomers to XPress get up and running quickly. And thereÕs a new chapter about going online with QuarkXPress that guides readers through how to take their XPress files and get them into multimedia and Web formats, including HTML, Acrobat, and QuarkImmedia.

Beginners learn all the basics, from the tools of the trade and document construction to working with text, typography, and graphics. Intermediate to advanced users will find this to be an invaluable resource to the new features of QuarkXPress and will use the book as a trusted reference. The QuarkXPress 4 Book is fully cross-platform, covering both Mac and Windows.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Foreword by Tim Gill.


Preface.


Introduction.


 1. Learn QuarkXPress in 30 Minutes.


 2. QuarkXPress Basics.


 3. Tools of the Trade.


 4. Building a Document.


 5. Word Processing.


 6. Type and Typography.


 7. Copy Flow.


 8. Long Documents.


 9. Pictures.


10. Fine-Tuning Images.


11. Where Text Meets Graphics.


12. Color.


13. Printing.


14. Going Online with QuarkXPress.


Appendix A: Color Management.


Appendix B: Macintosh vs Windows.


Appendix C: XTensions and Resources.


Appendix D: Scripting.


Appendix E: XPress Tags.


Appendix F: ANSI Codes.


Index.

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