QuarkXPress 4 Book

by David Blatner and Bob Weibel

This guide to the latest release of QuarkXPress for Windows covers the dozens of new features included in Version 3.3. Beginning with an overview of QuarkXPress, the book moves rapidly into major... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201696959
• ISBN13: 9780201696950
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 909 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Quarked-Out

This is the comprehensive, huge, heavy, expensive book that used to scare me to death at the bookstore when I was just contemplating getting a computer 2 years ago and abandoning my life as a Ludite. These books are actually pussycats and just big and heavy because they contain every single particle of information about Quark that you could ever want to know. It is written in plain English and begins at the beginning. Follow it through and you will come out the other side a Quark Guru. It is a fabulous resource when you get stuck and just can't remember how to do something or what this or that tool does. It really does answer any question you might have about how to Quark. Essential for Quark freaks and geeks and wannabes.

A must have for anyone using QuarkXPress

David Blatner does an excellent job of explaining QuarkXPress - everything you would ever need to know including many of his own comments and tips from past experiences with this program (very helpful). Not only has the author included a wonderful "Learn QuarkXPress in 30 minutes" chapter (Chapter 1), he also does a great job of explaining complex material in "real-world" terminology. A great book for learning QuarkXPress and a must have desktop reference; two thumbs up!

You must buy this book!

This was the best book I have ever read on Quark Xpress, or any other computer program for that matter. I read it from cover to cover and could hardly put it down. The information is given in a clear, concise fashion and the quick wit with which it was written makes it easy and interesting to read. It is a great starter guide for beginners, or a wonderful reference for advanced users. I recommend this book for everyone!

What You Need to Know Quark

I'm not a designer, but I have to design in my job. I needed to know Quark, and bought this book. Best move I could've made. You should buy it. Above everything, David Blatner is well-organized. Anyone who writes a software book will know his stuff, but getting that info from his head to mine is not always easy. Blatner makes it easy. For example, each chapter listed in the contents gets a paragraph summary. He gets straight to the nuggets of what I need to know. No mumbo jumbo. The first chapter is the basics. A thirty minute lesson in the important things. In Ch. 2 he elabortates on his initial information in Ch. 1. From then on, he goes bit by bit, explaining tools and typography and how text and images work together. Nothing too techie, but he respects that readers have brains as well. Fantastic layout... he provides graphs and, better yet, the actual dialogue boxes you'll see at a particular point. There are charts galore, including a nice one on special punctuation (how to make ligatures and dagger and that ever elusive cents sign). Among the better aspects of the book was his chapter on tools. My weakest area... and where a lot of people lack, is in knowing how the tools are fully used. My understanding of the text tools multiplied after reading about this. I could on and on. It is a thick book. Not a quick read... typical computer book in that respect. However, when I compared it to the competition, Blatner's Quark Xpress book by far the best by for the cash. I fully recommend this book. Anthony Trendl editor, HungarianBookstore.com

impeccable

David Blatner's sense of style and wit are put to excellent use in this manual for QuarkXPress, easily one the best software books on the market, and light years ahead of everything else written on Quark. Unlike other computer writers who seem to insist on demonstrating their sense of humor in every other paragraph, Blatner's observations are sometimes serious, sometimes witty, and never dull. This book is also very well designed and easy to read, which also bucks the current computer book trend. The computer software third party book industry has released the most awful prose and hideous book designs in the history of books. Blatner has gone against the grain of mediocrity and put out this insightful and quiet giant of a work. His Real World Photoshop 5, written with Bruce Fraser, continues the trend. Now if only he would replace Deke McClelland and write the definitive work on Illustrator!