Book: QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips

Saturday, April 10, 2010@ 9:43 PM
Author: Cyndie Shaffstall

QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tipsIt’s not just the title; it’s the content. Industry experts expose obscure and popular QuarkXPress features; making this the best book available — whether you’re a beginner or an expert yourself. Joe Root, Steve Gray, Joe Caponsacco, Kelly Kordes Anton, Trevor Alyn, Thomas Allen, and Stephen Beals expose the features of QuarkXPress 8. Cyndie Shaffstall gets you started, adds step-by-step tutorials, tours QuarkXPress 8, provides power techniques, and closes with a look at interactive layouts and XTensions. With hundreds of collective years’ experience at your fingertips, these experts will have you creating better files faster.

About the Author

Cyndie Shaffstall, previously editor and publisher of X-Ray Magazine, began working in print shops and migrated to typesetting very early in her career. At the introduction of the Macintosh to the print industry in the mid-80s, Shaffstall became a corporate trainer helping print-shop professionals adopt and adapt to the Mac. She has authored or co-authored nearly a dozen books on computer software, and self-published her first, QuarkXPress: Making the Most of Your Negative Experiences. In 1995, Shaffstall founded ThePowerXChange, LLC, a software-distribution company dedicated to extensions technology. In addition to ThePowerXChange, Shaffstall is the managing member of StrappyArt, LLC, a product that she invented in 2006, and Spider Trainers, a SEO/SMO consultant company for the entrepreneur. She is also director of QuarkAlliance at Quark, Inc.

Full-color, 246 pages, illustrated
$54.99 + $6.95 shipping and handling within the continental US via USPS.

For shipping outside the US, email info@cshaffstall.com. Kindle and other eBook formats available soon.

Buy now: QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts’ tips

Full-color, 8 X 10, 246 pages, illustrated
$54.99 + $6.95 shipping and handling within the continental US via USPS.

For shipping outside the US, email info@cshaffstall.com. Kindle and other eBook formats available soon.

One Response to “Book: QuarkXPress 8: production tricks and experts' tips”

  1. admin says:

    I want to let you know the QuarkXPress 8 book arrived a few days ago … I’ve already read through a number of chapters and am very impressed … this is what I was looking for in a QuarkXPress 8 book! My last version of QuarkXPress was 6.5 after moving to InDesign about five years ago and I assumed I could pick up QuarkXPress again easily, but soon saw I needed some help (although not as a beginner.)

    The new measurement palette reminds me of Freehand-MX’s contextual Object palette which does the same thing and this immediately was of interest; I love it. In fact, QuarkXPress’s new bézier pen tool is vastly improved since 6.5 and that was one of the first chapters I read along with the shape-making chapter, since I use and create vector artwork as a book designer and illustrator.

    — Mark Gelotte
    Gelotte Book Design

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