Product Description
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

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 2 reviews)

Helpful Tutorial by Kristina Iorio (Pittsburgh, PA)

4 Stars
August 18, 2009
This is a great book for people like me who don't like to read tutorials. The layout of information allows for readibility and well organized chapters makes it easy to find what you need. I highly recommend this book.

Tech manuals on the Kindle by MasterMind (San Diego, CA)

2 Stars
August 07, 2009
As much as I love my Kindle (I have both 1 & 2) it just doesn't show enough detail on the graphics. Before the Kindle or similar devices are going to be of much use for manuals the resolution is going to have to get much better and if we are to be realistic it is going to have to have color.

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