QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face [Paperback]

Galen Gruman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0764583794 | ISBN-13: 978-0764583797 | Edition: 1

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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From the Back Cover

Here's the easiest way possible to move from QuarkXPress to InDesign

You've decided to make the move to InDesign, but you need to get up to speed quickly. You still have deadlines to meet, even during the transition. Galen Gruman, a veteran of electronic publishing since its birth, provides exactly what you need—a side-by-side comparison showing you how to do every task in both QuarkXPress and InDesign. You'll see each procedure in a self-contained, two-page spread with Quark processes on the left and InDesign on the right. Making the switch just got easier.

• Compare InDesign tools to those of QuarkXPress
• Set up the fundamental elements–pages, sections, templates, libraries, and guides—and quickly identify operational differences
• Understand InDesign's approach to importing, creating, and applying colors, gradient fills, and shades
• Recognize the significant procedural differences for importing and managing the flow of text
• Learn the special tricks only InDesign can do
• Get the same high-quality typography from InDesign that you expected from QuarkXPress
• Explore the differences in creating and modifying graphics
• Prepare files for output, manage fonts, and work with multiple-chapter documents
• Follow easy, step-by-step instructions for performing Quark operations in InDesign

About the Author

Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. Currently a frequent contributor to SBS Digital Design, Macworld, CIO, and InfoWorld, he has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com.
He is coauthor of 16 other books on desktop publishing, covering InDesign, QuarkXPress, and PageMaker. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991, and most recently the design newsletter SBS Digital Design. Originally a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, Gruman got caught by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn’t recovered.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764583794
• ISBN-13: 978-0764583797
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #464,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Galen Gruman has written more than two dozen books, mainly on desktop publishing software: InDesign, QuarkXPress, and PageMaker. You can find more details on his InDesign books at www.indesigncentral.com. He has also was lead author for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Bible. Gruman was a pioneer in the use of desktop publishing technologies in the mid-1980s and has covered and used all the major software in production environments ever since. In addition, he has been executive editor of Macworld, M-Business, InfoWorld, and Upside magazines, among other roles in high-tech publications. Gruman lives and works in San Francisco as a writer, editor, and consultant on high-tech and business issues. His Web site is www.zangogroup.com.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An indespensible resource!, June 3, 2005

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Jean DeWitt (Huntingdon, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face (Paperback)

This is perfect for anyone making the transition from QXP to InDesign. Galen Gruman's new book, QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face, features over 250 switcher questions answered in step-by-step, head-to-head tutorials. In addition to walking the reader through common how to tasks like setting bleeds and crops, creating style sheets, exporting Web documents, and defining clipping paths, Face to Face also delivers other valuable information such as a chart comparing the graphic file formats supported for placement by both applications, shortcuts to insert special characters like em dashes and trademark symbols, and workarounds when features are not mirrored between the programs-such as working with the levels of a placed image, something that can be accomplished directly within Quark 6.5 but not in InDesign CS2. A section on InDesign-only tools and charts of keyboard shortcuts for both programs round out a desk reference indispensable to any switcher.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource for any designer making the switch, August 2, 2005

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Michele Defilippo (Phoenix) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face (Paperback)

This book is indispensable to any designer making the switch from Quark Xpress to InDesign. Using the side-by-side comparison of features is much faster than trying to find the answers online, because in order to look up how to do something, you have to know what it's called in InDesign. With this book, you don't. As a book designer, my only complaint is that the layout is unnecessarily complex. The shaded areas and bars, underlined text, icons and more were distracting rather than helpful, and the quality of the paper used makes the book look and feel cheap. Even so, I highly commend the author for the fine job in compiling such a massive amount of material and I highly recommend the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars QuarkXpress to InDecision, August 8, 2008

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Vee Shadow (Mullica Hill, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face (Paperback)

This book is not really for Quark users as really each entry is going to show you the Quark way then tell you the InDesign way and even if the Quark way is superior and easier you will be told that InDesign does it way better! It is just page after page of shameless ad hype for InDesign, which if you're buying this book you've already got InDesign so they really don't need to sell it to you. Except that with each page you are going to ask yourself why anyone would ever give up QuarkXpress for this miserable throwback to Pagemaker-- so I guess that's one reason why with every other page they have to try to sell you the idea.

Save your money and get the Adobe Classroom.