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It's not just the title; it's the content Industry experts expose obscure and popular QuarkXPress features; making this the best book available - whether you're a beginner or an expert yourself. Joe Root, Steve Gray, Joe Caponsacco, Kelly Kordes Anton, Trevor Alyn, Thomas Allen, and Stephen Beals expose the features of QuarkXPress 8. Cyndie Shaffstall gets you started, adds step-by-step tutorials, tours QuarkXPress 8, provides power techniques, and closes with a look at interactive layouts and XTensions. With hundreds of collective years' experience at your fingertips, QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips will have you feeling like an expert yourself..
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This handy Visual QuickStart Guide offers the quickest way to begin working with QuarkXPress 7, including all the new graphic effects, Job Jackets, expanded output options, and other great workflow enhancements. 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 solid base of skills in QuarkXPress 7. 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, this indispensable reference covers it all..
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• Get a quick handle on the new features of QuarkXPress 6, including Mac OS X and Windows XP compatibility, enhanced undo functionality, full-resolution previews, and new ways to manage complex projects
• Written by designers for designers, covering all the major tools for layout, text editing, special effects, Web page development, and printing in simple, easy-to-understand language
• Enables both beginning and intermediate designers to start using the program quickly
• From two highly qualified authors: Barbara Assadi, former manager of Quark, Inc.’s Editorial Services department, and Galen Gruman, a desktop publishing pioneer and former executive editor of Macworld

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This task-based, two-color reference is written for the exploding number of users switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign for their professional page composition needs. In this unique book, Galen Gruman directly addresses the questions and concerns of readers who are converting from QuarkXPress-the most widely used page layout program in the world-to InDesign, which is rapidly gaining ground and boasts better typography features and quicker performance.

• Helpful illustrated, side-by-side spreads show Quark users how to easily perform the same or similar tasks in Adobe InDesign
• Provides real-world tips and techniques for unleashing InDesign's capabilities
• Includes a useful tear-out quick key reference card
• Covers QuarkXPress 4, 5, 6 (incl through 6.5) and InDesign 2, CS, and CS2.

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Real World QuarkXPress is the world's best-selling reference on QuarkXPress At many design firms and schools it’s considered required reading With its friendly, easy-to-read style, you’ll learn QuarkXPress from the bottom up as a beginner. If you’ve had some experience with QuarkXPress, this book will help you sharpen your skills with all the new features of version 7. And if you’re an advanced user, all the tips, tricks, and techniques will turn you into a raging, inexorable QuarkXPress demon.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Speed up just about every task with the new Measurements palette
• Apply sophisticated drop shadows to text, images, boxes, and more
• Experiment with transparency and image e  ects
• Create expert tables with imported Microsoft Excel data and rich formatting
• Collaborate with others using the Shared Content and Composition Zones
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• Prevent sticky output problems with color setups, output styles, and Job Jackets
• Automate your projects with new QuarkXPress scripts and third-party XTensions
• For the latest updates, visit the Real World QuarkXPress site: www.peachpit.com/Quark7

"This is the book. Period. I’ve learned something from every new edition of Real World QuarkXPress since 1990.”
—Jay Nelson, Editorial Director, PlanetQuark.com and Design Tools Monthly.
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* Cross-platform coverage for Mac and Windows versions; covers the long-awaited upgrade of QuarkXPress, which will be compatible with Mac OS X
* Written from the perspective of the real-world designer or production specialist, this book uses visual examples to explain how to use the program in the context of real work
* Addresses all significant aspects of QuarkXPress, including color print-ing, online publishing, workflow considerations, cross-platform exchange, source file preparation, printed output, and much more
* Covers new features and tools for publishing to print, Web, and mobile devices
* Includes a Quick Start section to get readers up and running by creating an actual project, plus an all-new tear-out reference card
* QuarkXPress has been by far the world's leading page composition tool since the early 1990s, with an installed base estimated at more than three million.
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This book is written for users at any level, from beginners to seasoned designers. Each chapter includes step-by-step exercises that offer you the opportunity to practice what you learn as you learn it. Regardless of your experience level, you will benefit from the introduction to the new project-based work environment. You will learn everything you need to develop layout files - from understanding the basic tools and palettes and creating pages to defining style sheets, building master pages, importing and manipulating images, designing with color, and more. As you work through the real-world exercises and projects in this book, you will also learn advanced techniques for working with complex layouts: Use layers to create multiple versions of a layout. Create and format complex tables within a QuarkXPress layout. Use full-resolution previews to fine-tune image placement. Use synchronized text to guarantee consistency across one or more layouts. Combine multiple files into a book to facilitate long-document design. Automatically build tables of contents and indexes. Control reproduction with color management and trapping. Export your layouts to PDF without purchasing additional software Create interactive Web sites that include rollovers, image maps, and HTML forms. Experiment with transparency, drop shadows, and picture effects Collaborate with others using shared content and Job Jackets.In addition to learning how to use the tools available in QuarkXPress, you will also find helpful information and tips about design concepts that explain why you should use those tools. You will learn about production requirements - for both print and Web design - that affect your layouts. As an added benefit, you will also learn tricks and techniques that improve productivity and enhance the production workflow..
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