Title: QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips

AKA: QuarkXPress 8 Tricks or QXP 8 Tricks

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If you are, or ever have been, a QuarkXPress user, this book is for you.
This is not your everyday user's guide — rather this is a unique collection of
tutorials and commentary written by QuarkXPress experts, past and present,
that pick up where the user's guide leaves off.

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QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips. It's not just the title; it's the content. These QuarkXPress step-by-step tutorials benefit beginners and experts alike.

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QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips is a 250-page, spiral-bound book in which industry experts shed light on QuarkXPress. This the best source for feature understanding — whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional. Follow along with step-by-step tutorials that will have you feeling like an expert yourself.

100-word description

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 QuarkXPress. This the best source for feature understanding — whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional.

Follow along with step-by-step tutorials on getting started, QuarkXPress 8 features, shared content, layouts, lock, document production, ligatures, master pages, style sheets, invisibles, tables, Picture Effects, PSD Import, drawing techniques, trapping, web content, transparency, composition zones, and job jackets.

QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips will have you feeling like an expert yourself.

Short description (206 words)

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 QuarkXPress. This the best source for feature understanding — whether you're a beginner or a seasoned professional.

Jump right in with a getting-started section, a look at the re-architecture that began with QuarkXPress 7, and an examination of QuarkXPress 8. Follow along with step-by-step tutorials.

Joe Root provides a feature overview and helps you grasp the concepts behind shared content and job jackets.

Kelly Kordes Anton explains layouts, lock, document production, ligatures, invisibles, and tables, and is joined by Davina Hicks who sheds light on Unicode.

Steve Gray uses Picture Effects, PSD Import, and drawing techniques to extend your skill set into graphical elements, and we've included a short lesson in trapping from Stephen Beals.

Joe Caponsacco details two-position rollovers, forms, and web content, in addition to contributions on projects, layouts, shared content, layers, transparency, PSD Import, and Picture Effects.

Learn by example from Trevor Alyn on the subject of composition zones and Joe Root and Thomas Allen on the subject of job jackets.

QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips will have you feeling like an expert yourself.

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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. Follow along with step-by-step tutorials added to the experts' contributions.

Get started in QuarkXPress 8 with a tour of the basic features and you'll 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.

Joe Root, Quark's most vibrant speaker, 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.

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.

Learn illustration and anchoring techniques from Steve Gray as he shares an arsenal of tricks to extend your skill set into graphical elements. Using Picture Effects and PSD Import, learn professional techniques for color-correction, alpha channels, varnish, and clipping paths. We've even included a short lesson in trapping from Stephen Beals.

Joe Caponsacco digs into QuarkXPress' web tools and teaches you to create rollovers, forms, and web content, but also contributes his expertise on projects, layouts, shared content, layers, transparency, PSD Import, and Picture Effects.

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.

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.

Full description

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.