QuarkXPress 4 for Macintosh [Paperback]

Elaine Weinmann (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201696231 | ISBN-13: 978-0201696233 | Publication Date: February 23, 1998 | Edition: 2nd Printing

The best-selling QuarkXPress: Visual QuickStart Guide has been updated to take advantage of the new features in version 4.0. This is the perfect way for beginners to learn QuarkXPress because the step-by-step, illustrated guide teaches users how to master specific skills using clear, easy-to-understand instructions. It also offers special tips to help new users avoid potential problems. Hundreds of illustrations with detailed captions offer additional reinforcement for new users. Users learn how to create a new Quark file, navigate through a document, work with text boxes, picture boxes, typography, and much more.

The new edition is an invaluable tool for experienced Quark users because it offers them a chance to learn the new features of version 4.0 quickly and easily. Some of the new features in QuarkXPress 4.0 include the addition of Bezier tools, a Tools palette, character-based style sheets, new management capabilities for QuarkXTensions, indexes, and paragraph formats, new graphics features, and new typographical and document controls.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Peachpit's "Visual Quickstart Guides" is an excellent series focusing on highly visual software for both Macintosh and Windows. Uses for the software range from 3-D modeling with Ray Dream, to paper-page layout with QuarkXpress, to web design with GoLive and NetObjects. The approach is excellent for both self-learning and classroom work. The editors match great illustrations with total concentration on accomplishing very specific tasks and a minimum of extraneous discussion. My students love this series because the books are much less long-winded than I am.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

This is the perfect way for beginners to learn QuarkXPress because the step-by-step, illustrated guide teaches users how to master specific skills using clear, easy-to-understand instructions. It also offers special tips to help new users avoid potential problems. Hundreds of illustrations with detailed captions offer additional reinforcement for new users. Users learn how to create a new Quark file, navigate through a document, work with text boxes, picture boxes, typography, and much more. This new edition of the book is also an invaluable tool for experienced Quark users because it offers them a chance to learn the new features of version 4.0 quickly and easily.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2nd Printing edition (February 23, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201696231
• ISBN-13: 978-0201696233
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,424,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elaine Weinmann and her co-author, Peter Lourekas, write, design, and illustrate the best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Their books have been translated into 25 languages and have sold more than 2.4 million copies worldwide. She has also taught computer graphics courses at the New School Computer Instruction Center and Pratt Manhattan; he has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art and Parsons School of Design. View their blog at elaineandpeter.com Twitter @elaineweinmann

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars #1 Book For Beginners, January 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: QuarkXPress 4 for Macintosh (Paperback)

I am totally new to desktop publishing. After downloading trial versions of PageMaker 6.5, CorelDraw 8, Deneba Canvas 6, and QuarkXPress 4, I found myself with more programs with more features than I knew what to do with. So, I checked out the VQSG series for each of the above programs (except Canvas, which isn't available). When it came down to selecting a program, I went with Quark, due in no small part to Ms. Weinmann's excellent book. Loaded with tips, clear instruction, and objective criticism of some of the program's shortcomings, this book showed me enough about how to use Quark to get me up and running in just a couple of days. I would have liked some more definitions as new topics were introduced, but the book does a good job cross-referencing where additional information can be found in other chapters. This is simply one of the best computer references around for someone who doesn't like, or have time to read, an epic 900+ page treatise about a computer program. I will definitely look for other books by the same author, and continue to return to the VQSG as my first reference.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great leanring tool, May 22, 2000

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This review is from: QuarkXPress 4 for Macintosh (Paperback)

This book really helped me learn QuarkXPress. The program is very complicated and difficult to figure out for someone who has no previous experience with desktop publishing. This book helped shed some light on Quark and actually made it funtional for me. There is still a lot more to learn, but this book is great for those who are just starting out.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indespensable, November 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: QuarkXPress 4 for Macintosh (Paperback)

16 years in the graphic arts, as both a service bureau techie and now as an IS support techie...this book rocks! I use it for my personal reference, and I recommend it to all of our designers and admin QuarkXPress users. Don't underestimate how easy it is to reference stuff and how well laid out the book is. A must have for designers as well as support techies.