QuarkXPress

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Chapter 1: Introducing QuarkXPress In This Chapter Discovering menus, dialog boxes, and keyboard shortcuts Using the Tool palette and Measurements palette W hen desktop publishing arrived in the 1980s, a...

Chapter 2: Have It Your Way In This Chapter Creating a new project Understanding the View and Window menus Controlling how a layout displays onscreen Working with palettes and pointers Is sitti...

Chapter 3: Boxes and Text Unite! In This Chapter Creating text boxes Getting text into boxes Synchronizing text Importing text from your word-processing application Using XPress Tags: Your secr...

Chapter 4: A Picture Is Worth . . . In This Chapter Building picture boxes Importing pictures into boxes Managing and viewing pictures in a QuarkXPress project A picture may not always be worth a...

Chapter 5: Getting Tricky with Boxes In This Chapter Running text around, or on top of, items Rotating boxes Creating anchored text boxes I f you#8217;ve read the preceding chapters, you#8217;ve con...

Chapter 6: You#8217;ve Got Real Style In This Chapter Using style sheets to format paragraphs in your layouts Creating, changing, and applying styles Importing styles from other projects Half the...

Chapter 7: Working with Special Characters In This Chapter Automatically generating typographic quotes and dashes Understanding ligatures Using accents, international characters, and symbols Using...

Chapter 8: Devil in the Details In This Chapter Finding and changing text and text attributes Setting tabs Creating and modifying tables Getting copy to fit Using the spell checker Adding...

Chapter 9: A Touch of Color In This Chapter Understanding how colors work in printing Using the Color Management System in QuarkXPress Importing colors into QuarkXPress Applying colors to items in y...

Chapter 10: Understanding XTensions In This Chapter Understanding how XTensions work Rules about XTensions Installing XTensions Managing XTensions I magine that QuarkXPress, instead of being a...

Chapter 11: Outputting Projects In This Chapter Printing projects Using the Print Dialog box Working with service bureaus Exporting projects as PDF files After your project is designed and laid...

Chapter 12: Using QuarkXPress as an Illustration Tool In This Chapter Drawing straight and curved lines Converting text into Bйzier boxes Merging boxes Grouping items Changing the shape of item...

Chapter 13: Other Controls for Managing Items In This Chapter Creating margin, column, and custom guidelines Saving pages as EPS pictures Changing the stacking order of items Creating and manipulati...

Chapter 14: Warped Images In This Chapter Using the Modify dialog box with pictures Warping pictures using the Measurements palette Using line screen tools A picture is worth a thousand words. Even...

Chapter 15: Text as Art In This Chapter Running text along a path Skewing, rotating, and flipping text Creating shadows and outlines Embossing text Expanding and compressing text Thanks to...

Chapter 16: Building Books and Standardized Layouts In This Chapter Creating books Using master pages Using the book palette Numbering sections and chapters It#8217;s been said that each person...

Chapter 17: Making Lists and Indexes In This Chapter Building a list Choosing list styles Updating a list Creating an index Chances are, you know someone who is a listmaker (you know, the per...

Chapter 18: Web Projects: An Overview In This Chapter HTML basics Differences between print and Web layouts Connecting ideas together with hyperlinks HTML terms that you need to know Creating...

Chapter 19: Getting Your Site Up and Running In This Chapter Preparing your layout for the Web Exporting your layout to the Web Taking a brief look at XML We all know the ultimate destination of pri...

Chapter 20: Customizing QuarkXPress In This Chapter Setting application preferences Setting print and Web defaults Customizing tools People who publish come in all shapes and sizes, and they appro...

Chapter 21: The Ten Most Common Mistakes In This Chapter Using too many fonts Putting too much on a page Overdoing the design More bits of QuarkXPress-related advice that may someday save your life...

Chapter 22: More Than Ten Terms to Know In This Chapter Definitions of terms used in Web and print publishing QuarkXPress-specific terms Like many specialized functions, print and Web publishing have the...