QuarkXPress for Macintosh 4 Visual QuickStart Guide

by Elaine Weinmann

This guide has been updated to take account of the new features in QuarkXPress version 4.0. Step-by-step instructions teach beginners how to master specific skills and avoid potential problems.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201696231
• ISBN13: 9780201696233
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent tutor at my desk-side.

I bought this book as a last resort because my Computer Graphics professor told us we would need lots of tutoring in order to pass with good grades. I was totally "Quark illiterate" before taking this course and buying the book. Honestly, this book explains a lot more than a tedious 3 week course in class could. The book has taken me step-by-step through all the process of learning style-sheets and type-boxes. This is all stuff I would have never been able to learn if not for the book itself.Elaine Weinmann's very well illustrated and easy to read/follow excersises are what any student needs to reach their goal in QuarkXPress. My copy is different in color to the one sold here, but it looks exactly like the one my professor uses.And, because the book is not really that thick, it can fit in either a backpack or a briefcase. The only main problem I have with the book itself is the paper-back style. It will fray and dog-ear pretty fast, so take good care of this "Bible for Quark".And...for those whom are not too sure of their Keyboard shortcuts, thank God, they put them in the back of the book.At least I don't have to search my binder for my photocopies! That little extra is a Godsend. Especially when you are being tested on the shortcuts. Get the book. Hope my review helped you.

Great leanring tool

This book really helped me learn QuarkXPress. The program is very complicated and difficult to figure out for someone who has no previous experience with desktop publishing. This book helped shed some light on Quark and actually made it funtional for me. There is still a lot more to learn, but this book is great for those who are just starting out.

Indespensable

16 years in the graphic arts, as both a service bureau techie and now as an IS support techie...this book rocks! I use it for my personal reference, and I recommend it to all of our designers and admin QuarkXPress users. Don't underestimate how easy it is to reference stuff and how well laid out the book is. A must have for designers as well as support techies.

Excellent Resource

I am a graphic design student and so took a class on QuarkXPress 4. This book was one of the resources for the class. I found it to be invaluable. It gets right to the point without using a lot of words that sound nice and don't mean anything. It is an excellent book.

#1 Book For Beginners

I am totally new to desktop publishing. After downloading trial versions of PageMaker 6.5, CorelDraw 8, Deneba Canvas 6, and QuarkXPress 4, I found myself with more programs with more features than I knew what to do with. So, I checked out the VQSG series for each of the above programs (except Canvas, which isn't available). When it came down to selecting a program, I went with Quark, due in no small part to Ms. Weinmann's excellent book. Loaded with tips, clear instruction, and objective criticism of some of the program's shortcomings, this book showed me enough about how to use Quark to get me up and running in just a couple of days. I would have liked some more definitions as new topics were introduced, but the book does a good job cross-referencing where additional information can be found in other chapters. This is simply one of the best computer references around for someone who doesn't like, or have time to read, an epic 900+ page treatise about a computer program. I will definitely look for other books by the same author, and continue to return to the VQSG as my first reference.