QuarkXPress 8 Essential Skills for Page

This guide makes quick work of the most useful features in QuarkXPress 8, without unnecessary documentation. bull; The best QuarkXPress book on the basics--covers the primary features needed to do layout, but not all the features in the program bull; The opposite of a Dummies book, this book assumes the audience needs help with QuarkXPress and publishing issues, not the computer bull; Focuses on the most efficient way to do things and provides real world tips and techniques on publishing and workflow This is a new Peachpit one-off title that focuses on the basic techniques of QuarkXPress 8 software for print and Web workflows. It provides only the essential tips and techniques without the comprehensive documentation found in other books. It presents the program in a way that users actually now learn QuarkXPress (20 years after the program was introduced), unlike other books that still teach QuarkXPress as if the audience doesn't know the computer. The Dynamic author team, Kelly Kordes Anton and John Cruise, have both worked at Quark in the past, and have been using the program since it's very first release--they know it inside and out! Together, they walk readers through all things QuarkXPress 8, including: Workspaces, Documents, Pages, Items, Type, Text, Tables, Graphics, Color, Print, PDF, Web, and Flash. There is also a section dedicated to helping users retrain the 'QuarkXPress 4 mind set.' QuarkXPress 8 released in August 2008 and represents paradigm changes not seen since 3.0 was released 14 years ago. QuarkXPress users are now predominately Windows based and a large percentage uses the program for the Web. QuarkXPress 8 is currently available for US$900, or $200 for upgrade. There are now more than one million users worldwide. QuarkXPress users typically upgrade about six months after the introduction of the software. This book will hit the height of that cycle and provide an accessible format with a low-price point.

Kelly Kordes Anton is the Editor of Colorado Expression magazine.

Introduction	p. ix
The role of QuarkXPress	p. x
QuarkXPress basics	p. xii
About this book	p. xiv
For more information	p. xvi
Projects	p. 1
Creating projects	p. 2
Creating layouts	p. 8
Appending layouts	p. 9
Exporting and deleting layouts	p. 11
Workspace	p. 13
Project windows	p. 14
Tools palette	p. 17
Menus and context menus	p. 19
Measurements palette	p. 21
Palette management	p. 22
Navigation	p. 25
Layout aids	p. 26
View options	p. 29
Pasteboard	p. 30
Program language	p. 31
Items	p. 33
Creating items	p. 34
Using the drawing tools	p. 36
Selecting Items	p. 40
Moving and resizing items	p. 42
Modifying items	p. 43
Adding color and a stroke to items	p. 49
Adding a drop shadow to items	p. 51
Duplicating items	p. 52
Aligning items	p. 54
Transforming items	p. 58
Changing the stacking order of items	p. 63
Text	p. 65
Importing and entering text	p. 66
Flowing text	p. 69
Modifying text boxes	p. 72
Editing text	p. 76
Checking spelling	p. 79
Searching and replacing	p. 81
Exporting text	p. 83
Typography	p. 85
Formatting characters and paragraphs	p. 86
Working with tabs	p. 90
Creating drop caps	p. 93
Working with style sheets	p. 94
Fine-tuning spacing	p. 99
Fine-tuning typography	p. 105
Combining type and graphics	p. 107
Tables	p. 109
Creating tables	p. 110
Working with tables	p. 115
Adding text and pictures	p. 116
Editing and formatting table text	p. 116
Formatting tables	p. 119
Positioning tables on the page	p. 122
Adjusting tables	p. 123
Continuing tables across pages	p. 127
Exporting table data	p. 130
Converting tables to groups	p. 130
Pictures	p. 131
Importing	p. 132
Cropping, positioning, and scaling	p. 134
Working with Photoshop files	p. 139
Special effects for pictures	p. 142
Managing imported pictures	p. 147
Color	p. 149
Creating new colors	p. 150
About color models	p. 152
Applying color	p. 154
Managing the colors in a layout	p. 157
Finding and changing colors	p. 159
Setting up basic color management	p. 160
Pages	p. 165
Setting margins and columns	p. 166
Using master page grids	p. 170
Using ruler guides	p. 173
Managing guides and grids	p. 176
Working with master pages	p. 177
Adding, deleting, and rearranging pages	p. 180
Numbering pages	p. 184
Dividing a layout into sections	p. 185
Using layers	p. 186
Print	p. 189
Preparing to print	p. 190
The Print dialog box	p. 192
Using print output styles	p. 195
Printing drafts	p. 196
Printing color proofs	p. 197
Collecting files for final output	p. 198
PDF	p. 201
Planning layouts for PDF	p. 202
Setting PDF Preferences	p. 202
Exporting layouts as PDF	p. 203
Using PDF output styles	p. 207
WEB	p. 209
Planning and designing Web layouts	p. 210
Creating a Web layout	p. 211
Working with text	p. 213
Working with pictures, lines, and other items	p. 214
Adding other elements to Web layouts	p. 216
Adding pages to Web layouts	p. 229
Previewing Web layouts	p. 230
Exporting Web layouts	p. 230
Converting layouts between print and Web	p. 232
Flash	p. 233
Understanding interactive layouts	p. 234
Building interactive layouts	p. 236
Previewing Interactive Layouts	p. 238
Exporting interactive layouts	p. 240
Retraining The Quarkxpress Mind	p. 243
Learning the new tools	p. 244
The document window	p. 247
The Measurements palette	p. 248
Changing the way you work	p. 249
What happened to?	p. 250
New features and enhancements	p. 252
Index	p. 255
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