QuarkXPress 8: Essential Skills for Page Layout and Web Design - Softcover

Anton, Kelly Kordes; Cruise, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 032161691X ISBN 13: 9780321616913

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2009

Synopsis

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

About this title

Product Description:

QuarkXPress 8 This accessible new guide on QuarkXPress 8 for both print and Web workflows helps designers get up to speed quickly. Two QuarkXPress experts provide the essential techniques that professionals need in an easy-to-use format. Full description

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 andReal 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 032161691X
• ISBN 13: 9780321616913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288