QuarkXPress 7: Creating Digital Documents

This book is written for users at any level, from beginners to seasoned designers. Each chapter includes step-by-step exercises that offer the opportunity to practice as a skill is learned. Regardless of experience level, every reader will benefit from the introduction to the new project-based work environment. Learn everything needed to develop layout files — from understanding the basic tools and palettes and creating pages to defining style sheets, building master pages, importing and manipulating images, designing with color, and more.

Works through the real-world exercises and projects in this book and learn advanced techniques for working with complex layouts.

Features:

• use layers to create multiple versions of a layout;

• create and format complex tables within a QuarkXPress layout;

• use full-resolution previews to fine-tune image placement;

• use synchronized text to guarantee consistency across one or more layouts;

• combine multiple files into a book to facilitate long-document design;

• automatically build tables of content and indices;

• control reproduction with color management and trapping;

• export layouts to PDF without purchasing additional software; and

• create interactive web sites that include rollovers, image maps, and HTML forms.

In addition to learning how to use the tools available in QuarkXPress, find helpful information and tips about design concepts that explain why use those tools. Learn about production requirements — for both print and web design — that affect layouts. As an added benefit, learn tricks and techniques that improve productivity and enhance the production workflow.

Manufacturer: Against the Clock, Inc.

QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips — it's not just the title; it's the content. In this 250-page, spiral-bound book, industry experts shed light on the most obscure and the most popular QuarkXPress features. This the best source for feature understanding — whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional.

Cyndie Shaffstall puts a wrapper around this collection of articles and contributes with a getting-started section for beginners, a look at the re-architecture that began with QuarkXPress 7, detailed exercises for interactive content, and feature examinations of everything added to QuarkXPress 8. You'll master skills as you follow along in newly added step-by-step tutorials for many of the experts' contributions and in power-user techniques she authored.

If you're just getting started with QuarkXPress 8, we get you rolling with a tour of the basic features. You will quickly be up to the task of creating content boxes, item and text style sheets, adding, resizing, and positioning pictures, and working with many of the latest features.

Every user will benefit from an overview of QuarkXPress by Joe Root, Quark's most vibrant speaker. Joe walks — rather runs — you through the feature presentation then slows up a bit to help you grasp the concepts behind shared content and job jackets.

For you text-content creators, Kelly Kordes Anton exposes the inner workings of layouts, lock, document production, ligatures, invisibles, and tables. Davina Hicks joins Kelly in shedding light on Unicode and Cyndie helps out with document production.

For the photographer and illustrator in you, learn illustration and anchoring techniques from Steve Gray as he shares an arsenal of handy tricks to extend your skill set beyond page design and into graphical elements. Using Picture Effects and PSD Import, learn professional techniques for color-correction, alpha channels, varnish, and clipping paths. A short lesson in trapping from Stephen Beals will help you to understand what happens to your creations as you go to press.

For creating web, print, and interactive content, QuarkXPress has all the tools you need and Joe Caponsacco puts them on display. Learn to use QuarkXPress' web tools and create rollovers, forms, and web content. Joe also contributes his expertise on projects, layouts, shared content, layers, transparency, PSD Import, and Picture Effects.

Once the groundwork is laid, you're ready to advance to complex topics and you'll not want to miss the in-depth, learn-by-example tours from Trevor Alyn on the subject of composition zones and Joe Root and Thomas Allen on the subject of job jackets. If you have been timid about getting into these complex feature sets, wait no longer. Spending years at Quark has made these three authors more than qualified to help you implement and get the most from a whole new workflow.

Every time you launch QuarkXPress you will benefit from these experts that speak from hundreds of collective years of experience. In the end, QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips will have you feeling like an expert yourself.

Publisher: ThePowerXChange