When you need the ultimate reference to the ultimate desktop publishing software, this is the place to turn. Acknowledged Quark master David Blatner provides comprehensive coverage of everything Quark: using the Tool palette, building a document, working with graphics, adjusting color, and more. Even better, this best-selling classic has been updated to cover all that's new in what promises to be a significant update: native support for Mac OS X and Windows XP, an enhanced Undo feature, full-resolution preview of on-screen images, reorganized menus, new commands, and more. In friendly, easy-to-read style, David offers an indispensable collection of industrial-strength tips and tricks, as well as in-depth discussions of the core concepts that drive QuarkXPress use in the real world. Whether you're new to QuarkXPress and need a thorough grounding or an old hand looking to get up to speed quickly on all of its new features, you'll find what you need here.
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When you need the ultimate reference to the ultimate desktop publishing software, this is the place to turn. Acknowledged Quark master David Blatner provides comprehensive coverage of everything Quark: using the Tool palette, building a document, working with graphics, adjusting color, and more. Even better, this best-selling classic has been updated to cover all that's new in what promises to be a significant update: native support for Mac OS X and Windows XP, an enhanced Undo feature, full-resolution preview of on-screen images, reorganized menus, new commands, and more. In friendly, easy-to-read style, David offers an indispensable collection of industrial-strength tips and tricks, as well as in-depth discussions of the core concepts that drive QuarkXPress use in the real world. Whether you're new to QuarkXPress and need a thorough grounding or an old hand looking to get up to speed quickly on all of its new features, you'll find what you need here.
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QuarkXPress, InDesign, and Photoshop expert David Blatner has written or co-written numerous books, including QuarkXPress Power Shortcuts; Real World Adobe Photoshop 7; Real World InDesign 2; and the previous editions of this best-selling
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential reference, great step-by-steps, fun read,
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This review is from: Real World QuarkXPress 6 (Paperback)
I've been a Quark authorized trainer since 1994, and a Quark-using designer since a couple years before that, and there is no way I could use this program to its fullest extent without a current version of Blatner's QuarkXPress book at my side.
Though Blatner is writing a lot about InDesign now, he is still the acknowledged Quark expert in the field. His book goes into detail on every nook and cranny in the program, with copious, well-annotated screen shots throughout. (And contrary to another reviewers griping about figures seldom being on the same page where they're cited, that's totally wrong -- the opposite is true. Just look at the "look inside" excerpt that Amazon provides right here. I flipped through my copy and found that only once in a while are figures are on the next page. And in that case, big whoop! Don't know what's up with that guy.) I like how he carries on a conversational tone even in the screen shots, like he's sitting next to you showing you stuff. For example on pg. 265 he goes through a series of 6 screen shots showing the same 2 blocks of text that were set on a master, modified on the doc page, then modified on the master and what happens to them subsequently on the doc page. How doc items can remain "partially" linked to their master page sources -- an item link vs. a content link -- are one of the most difficult things to teach let alone understand. But he takes his time with each shot, explaining what's happening and why (for #4 in the series of 6 shots: "Because I broke the item link for the second box, it doesn't get updated. The first box is updated because only the content link had been broken.") I think if you ask any seasoned Quark user which book they *must* have, they'll tell you it's Blatner's. There's no "tutorials" as one reviewer mentioned, because the entire book is a tutorial! Egads! Every thing he explains is related to when/why you'd use a given feature for a particular purpose. Many screen shots are of real world projects. If you want a canned tutorial on how to create a fake newsletter or something. (...) Also, note: Right after the book came out, Blatner notified the QuarkXPress listserv and anyone else he could reach that the publisher mistakenly included an old index with the book, but it was reprinted in late 2003 with the correct index. I'm not sure how people in summer of 2004 are ending up with a bad index. I bought my copy from Amazon in April 2004 and the index is fine. (...)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Plenty to read but hard to find what your looking for.,
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This review is from: Real World QuarkXPress 6 (Paperback)
Using this book as a reference is a nightmare. As far as I can tell the index has no correlation between itself and the rest of the book. For example if your looking for info on null boxes the index shows you to a page about bezier curves. Or if your looking for information on page numbers, the actual text that deals with them falls between the pages stated in the index. Now if you can find the specific item your looking for there is usaually some good info there. However I find it more frustrating than helpful.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quark without Blatner is no quark at all,
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If you have to put up with the quirks in Quark, then David Blatner's book is essential. I don't know him, have nothing to do with his book, but I do know he's a heck of an instructor and writer. Quark (the company) is useless when you need help. Quark is an average software made good by Blatner's book. He's the Lynda Weinman of Quark. Get it. You'll be elated that you did.
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