Customer Reviews

Using QuarkXPress 4.0

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I'm taking a QuarkXPress class at a local community college and this book is used as our textbook. The exercises and accompanying CD are extemely helpful in getting the uninitiated started in Quark. There are other books that could be as helpful further down the road, but without the interactive experience provided by the CD & tutorials, you'll only be reading about it as opposed to actually doing something. The hands-on approach of this book makes all the difference in the world. When trying to learn a demanding program like Quark, any advantage is welcomed. I found this book to be an excellent learning tool.

Using QuarkXPress may not be very much fun in itself, but this book didn't even attempt to rescue me from this gutter I was already in. Occasional errors weren't too distractive, but the method of teaching just didn't work. Many times, I found myself instructed to do something, but after having completed it, I had no idea for what purpose and to what end I had just accomplished.

Another querk I found in this Quark book was that it attempted to cram too much information all at once. The book looks small, but the wealth of information is overdone. I learned a lot of stuff, but I also forgot a lot of it afterwards due to excess information spilling out my ears. If only the author would have slowed down a bit and taken a few hundred more pages to explain important concepts, I may have retained more of what I had learned.

I believe for this book to be more of an asset, more "why" comments after the "do this" comments would have cleared things up a bit.