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Quarkxpress 8: Production Tricks And Experts' Tips

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As a QuarkXPress user for two decades, I was not looking for book to tell me how to use the application, but I did want a review of QuarkXPress 8's new UI. This book provides exactly as the title touts, "production tricks and experts' tips," but if you're new to QuarkXPress in general, there are two full chapters to help you get started. In my opinion, though, intermediate and advanced users are the ones who will benefit most.
As a desktop publisher, I've never really taken to the illustration tools in QuarkXPress, but with the step-by-step tutorials on the pen tools, I was really amazed to find that I can use these pen tools to make very detailed illustrations, logos, and drop caps. That's a real benefit to me.
If you already know everything, you won't need this book and a quick peruse at your local library will definitely give you a handful of shortcuts that you wouldn't admit to not having known. If you think there's room for you to learn something that will help you make files faster, more stable, more consistent, or that include illustrations, photographic special effects, or animated content, this is just the read you need.

Very well written. Good for intermediate users, and a very nice review for advanced users. I used to use Quark 3.2 and 6 back in the day and then took a hiatus from desktop publishing for several years. Quark 8 is pretty different to its predecessors, and this book covers those changes really well. Plus it gives some tips on typography. But if you're a total beginner it might be kind of hard to keep up.

I was hoping this would list the changes from QXP 6 by the various functions. A technical manual would have better served my needs. Also I wish there had been a map for finding where various functions had been moved in the menu bar.

This book is way too heavy to be bound with Plasticoil spiral binding. I really don't enjoy dealing with the constantly whopper-jawed pages and sections of this book. For such an expensive book it should have a sewn binding, or at the very least a heavy-duty perfect binding. Shame ...

I wanted a book to help with the Quark 8 update, and this is not it! It's not a very good book if you are already familiar with the Quark interface. Not much use really. And too expensive for what you get! Go to the library and get it there, don't waste your money on this book!