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QuarkXpress 6 Bible

* Cross-platform coverage for Mac and Windows versions; covers the long-awaited upgrade of QuarkXPress, which will be compatible with Mac OS X
* Written from the perspective of the real-world designer or production specialist, this book uses visual examples to explain how to use the program in the context of real work
* Addresses all significant aspects of QuarkXPress, including color print-ing, online publishing, workflow considerations, cross-platform exchange, source file preparation, printed output, and much more
* Covers new features and tools for publishing to print, Web, and mobile devices
* Includes a Quick Start section to get readers up and running by creating an actual project, plus an all-new tear-out reference card
* QuarkXPress has been by far the world's leading page composition tool since the early 1990s, with an installed base estimated at more than three million

Biography

Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. He has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com. He is coauthor of 13 other books on desktop publishing. He led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, and Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991. Originally a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, Gruman got caught by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn't recovered.

Barbara Assadi is a principal at BayCreative LLC, a San Francisco-based marketing and advertising agency that develops custom publishing, marketing, and advertising collateral and services for a wide range of companies. Prior to cofounding that company, she was creative programs manager at Oracle Corporation, where she managed the creation, design, and production of the company's annual report and product marketing collateral. She previously held similar positions at Quark and Pacific Life Insurance, and also served as manager of Macworld's online and syndicated content. She was an early pioneer in desktop publishing technology, especially as applied to corporate communications, and evaluated publishing tools for the trade weekly InfoWorld from 1988 to 1996. Assadi has cowritten eight other books on QuarkXPress and has edited others on similar topics.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

QuarkXPress QuickStart.

Part I: Welcome to QuarkXPress.

Chapter 1: Introducing QuarkXPress.

Chapter 2: Taking a Tour of QuarkXPress.

Chapter 3: Setting Preferences and Defaults.

Chapter 4: Managing Files.

Part II: Layout for Print.

Chapter 5: Creating a New Project.

Chapter 6: Working with Items.

Chapter 7: Working with Pages.

Chapter 8: Working with Layers.

Chapter 9: Working with Layouts.

Part III: Text.

Chapter 10: Working with Text Files.

Chapter 11: Flowing Text.

Chapter 12: Editing Text.

Chapter 13: Using XPress Tags.

Part IV: Typography.

Chapter 14: Setting Character Attributes.

Chapter 15: Setting Paragraph Attributes.

Chapter 16: Fine-Tuning Spacing.

Chapter 17: Special Typographic Techniques.

Chapter 18: Tabs and Tables.

Part V: Graphics.

Chapter 19: Working with Graphics Files.

Chapter 20: Modifying Graphics.

Chapter 21: Working with Clipping Paths.

Chapter 22: Combining Text and Graphics.

Part VI: Illustrations.

Chapter 23: Drawing Tools.

Chapter 24: Creating Illustrations.

Chapter 25: Creating Composite Illustrations.

Part VII: Color.

Chapter 26: Creating and Applying Colors.

Chapter 27: Color Management.

Chapter 28: Trapping.

Part VIII: Managing Projects.

Chapter 29: Communicating in a Workgroup.

Chapter 30: Using Style Sheets Effectively.

Chapter 31: Using Libraries and Templates Effectively.

Chapter 32: Using Long Document Features.

Part IX: Print Output.

Chapter 33: Printing Projects.

Chapter 34: Working with a Service Bureau.

Chapter 35: Exporting Projects as PDF Files.

Part X: Interactive and Web Publishing.

Chapter 36: Preparing for Web Publishing.

Chapter 37: Creating Basic Web Projects.

Chapter 38: Creating Interactive Projects.

Part XI: Going Beyond the Program.

Chapter 39: Using XTensions.

Chapter 40: Scripting QuarkXPress.

Part XII: Introduction to Publishing.

Chapter 41: The Publishing Environment

Chapter 42: Layout Theory and Practice

Chapter 43: Typography Theory and Practice

Chapter 44: Using Special Characters

Chapter 45: Color Fundamentals

Part XIII: Appendixes

Appendix A: Installing or Upgrading QuarkXPress

Appendix B: Mac OS X for QuarkXPress Users

Appendix C: The QuarkXPress Central Web Site

Appendix D: QuarkXPress 6 Keyboard Shortcuts

Index.

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