QuarkXPress 6 for Windows and Macintosh:Visual QuickStart Guide with Computing Mousemat - Softcover

Weinmann, Elaine; Lourekas, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582851173 ISBN 13: 9780582851177

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2004

Synopsis

Best-selling guide to the software that publishers and

designers have been waiting for: Mac OS X-- and Windows

XP--native QuarkXPress 6!

° Completely updated to cover all of the features new to QuarkXPress 6, including a

brand-new chapter on Synchronized Text.

° Popular Visual QuickStart approach offers quickest route to QuarkXPress

proficiency for all skill levels.

° Hundreds of sidebars and tips expand on basic techniques.

Summary

Offering native support for both Mac OS X and Windows XP--and a slew of

new features to leverage the power of both--the leading page-layout program,

QuarkXPress 6, has finally caught up with the next-generation operating

systems, and this handy Visual QuickStart Guide offers the quickest way to

begin working with it. In these pages, best-selling authors and veteran

educators Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourek as use task-based, step-by-step

instruction and loads of visual aids to provide a solid base of skills in

QuarkXPress 6, including all that's new in this ground-breaking release: layout

spaces (which allow multiple layouts to exist within a single project);

Synchronized Text (which lets users share content between layouts within a

project so that when Synchronized Text is edited in one place, all

corresponding text is simultaneously updated), improved table creation, and

more. Progressing from the basics of planning and designing layouts, working

with text, and creating and importing graphics to more advanced topics like

exporting documents as Web pages and adding hyperlinks, this indispensable

reference covers it all.

About this title

About the Author

Design pros Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas wrote the previous bestselling

editions of this title, as well as Visual QuickStart Guides to Illustrator,

Photoshop, LiveMotion, and Painter. The pair has also taught at Pratt

Manhattan, Cooper Union School of Art, the New School Computer

Instruction Center, and Parsons School of Design.

From the Back Cover

If you're like most designers and publishers who work with QuarkXPress, you've been waiting a long time for this release. In fact, you're probably one of the last people on your block to start using Mac OS X or Windows XP because you've been waiting for your most important application--QuarkXPress--to offer native support for either. Well, the wait is finally over, and here to get you up to speed on it quickly and easily is QuarkXPress 6 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. In these pages, best-selling authors and veteran educators Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas use task-based, step-by-step instruction and loads of visual aids to provide a soup-to-nuts grounding in QuarkXPress 6, including all that's new in this ground-breaking release: project files containing multiple layouts, Synchronized Text, improved table creation, and more. Progressing from the basics of planning and designing layouts, working with text, and creating and importing graphics to more advanced topics like exporting documents as Web pages and adding hyperlinks, this indispensable reference covers it all.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582851173
• ISBN 13: 9780582851177
• Binding: Paperback