Real World QuarkXPress 5 is a collection of tips and tricks, a full overview of the program, and in-depth discussions of core concepts behind using QuarkXPress in the real world. Blatner begins with a 30 minute step-by-step beginners guide to learning QuarkXPress. From there, readers will learn about the structure of Quark from the ground up. Topics covered -- Quark basics (menus, palettes, dialog boxes) -- Tool palette -- Building a document -- Word processing -- Type, copy flow -- Working with graphics -- Color, printing, -- Quark's new Web and XML features -- Scripting
David Blatner is the author of 15 books, translated into 14 languages with over a half-million copies in print, including Spectrums, The Joy of Pi, and The Flying Book. As an expert on digital publishing, he has lectured in five continents over the past two decades. He and his wife and two sons live, explore, and write outside Seattle, Washington.