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QuarkXPress 8: Essential Skills for Page Layout and Web Design [Paperback]

Kelly Kordes Anton (Author), John Cruise (Author)
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032161691X 978-0321616913 February 28, 2009 1
Get up to speed quickly with this accessible new guide on QuarkXPress 8 for both print and Web workflows. QuarkXPress experts Kelly Kordes Anton and John Cruise provide the essential techniques that you need in an easy-to-use format. From the basics of creating new layouts to using QuarkXPress’s superior typographic tools, this book covers the primary features for graphic designers and Web publishers—whether new to the program or returning again. Expert tips and the most efficient approach for your real-world workflow demands make this book a valuable resource.

Learn about:

•    Setting up your workspace, tools, and palettes to increase productivity
•    Creating new projects, including managing layouts within projects
•    Producing professional type with hanging punctuation, OpenType, and expert built-in hyphenation and justification options
•    Editing images, creating drop shadows, and working with transparency
•    Building tables, creating and applying color, and using master pages
•    Outputting for print, PDF, Web, and Flash



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About the Author

Kelly Kordes Anton is the Editor of Colorado Expression magazine. She uses this behind-the-scenes publishing knowledge to write books, articles, and stories about QuarkXPress and other software. A former Quark employee, she worked on versions 3.2, 3.3 and 4.0, and has contributed to later versions as a contractor. She has coauthored Adobe InDesign CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, and the upcoming Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book. She has contributed to the QuarkXPress 7: Visual Quick Start Guide and Real World QuarkXPress 7.

John Cruise is a freelance writer, design instructor, and former writer and editor at Quark. He is a regular contributor to Mac/Life Magazine, and InDesign Magazine and coauthored QuarkXPress 4 for Dummies, QuarkXPress 4 Bible, InDesign Bible, Adobe InDesign CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, and Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book.


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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (February 28, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 032161691X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321616913
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not effective for learning the program, February 13, 2011
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This book is really just informational about components of QuarkXPress 8. There are very few actual hand-on assignments which would actually help you learn the program. Instead, the book just tells you what will happen based on different criteria.

I have the Against The Clock book for QuarkXPress 7 and it is extremely comprehensive. Even though it's for version 7, it is still very applicable to version 8. I recommend it instead of this book.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, afordable resource, February 1, 2010
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This publication is a good, quick, and afordable resource for QuarkXpress 8. The volume is well organized and written with easy to understand direction.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Tutorial, August 17, 2009
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This is a great book for people like me who don't like to read tutorials. The layout of information allows for readibility and well organized chapters makes it easy to find what you need.

I highly recommend this book.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paragraph attributes, page grids, job jacket, freehand drawing, print style, item styles, gutter width, proof output, composition zones, rollover image, new hyperlink, default path, background image, default image, vertical alignment, print output style, controls for applying color, automatic text box, meta tag set, character style sheet, text box grids, paragraph style sheet, original picture file, ments palette, auxiliary dictionary
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Text Content, Page Layout, Picture Content, Bézier Pen, Picture Effects, Master Guides, Choose View, Layout Type, New Layout, New Project, Auto Fit, Grid Styles, Maintain Geometry, Table Properties, Choose Window, Flash Player, Microsoft Word, Insert Pages, Convert Table, Convert Text, Table Break, Actual Size, Rectangle Box, Export Options, New Folder
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