eBook downloads, eBook resources & eBook authors
This widely acclaimed, indispensable QuarkXPress reference is back for version 5. This is the clearest technical support guide and the definitive reference source on the basics, tool palette, building documents, copy flow, and more.
Take the kinks out of working with QuarkXPress QuarkXPress still remains one of the top tools for layout and design projects, even thirty years after it made its debut. This full-color, hands-on guide is here to help you take the guesswork out of using this powerful tool to create stunning print or digital designs. In QuarkXPress For Dummies, you'll find information on the latest changes to QuarkXPress, easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidance on using the tools built into the software to aid in designing and outputting visual product, and quick solutions to common Quark problems when you get stuck. QuarkXPress dominated the page layout world for decades. It's stuck around thanks to how it readily adapts to customer needs. This new version contains updates and features driven solely by customer feedback. That responsiveness is luring new and former users to the fold. That resurgence in the design community has Quark users clamoring for an authoritative book on how to use it to its fullest. Created in partnership with the pros at Quark, this is the book for new and experienced QuarkXPress users looking to make sense of the latest version. Offers unbeatable tricks for working with text Provides guidance on managing larger design projects Includes tips on how to correct mistakes Take a tour of the palettes, add style to your work, and make QuarkXPress work for you!
This guide to the latest release of QuarkXPress for Windows covers the dozens of new features included in Version 3.3. Beginning with an overview of QuarkXPress, the book moves rapidly into major areas: word processing, layout, printing, color, pictures, and five other topics. Several appendices provide moret echnical information on Windows character sets and transferring files.
The Against the Clock series is ideal for any course that includes graphic arts software and computer design software as part of the curriculum. Courses can be found in Office Information Systems, Computer Science, and Fine Arts Departments, as well as Continuing Education, Journalism, and Printing and Lithography. Assuming a working knowledge of QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress 5: Advanced Electronic Mechanicals builds on basic skills to introduce the more complex and technically challenging uses for the program. Focusing on issues like drawing, advanced imaging, the creation and management of long documents, style sheets and online publishing techniques, the book provides the reader with a solid way to master this popular and difficult application. By the end, there's little that the program offers that hasn't been explored, used, and applied to projects and assignments drawn from the real world of professional page design.
Learn the fundamentals necessary to create extraordinary documents with QuarkXPress. This guide will get readers up to speed and designing quickly with this powerful program.
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.
The bestselling (over 150,000 sold) guide to QuarkXPress, now updated for the long-awaited Quark 4. This new version includes chapters on Bezier drawing tools, long-document features, and Quark's new built-in Color Management System. There's also a new "QuarkXPress in 30 Minutes" intro chapter that helps newcomers get up and running quickly.
