Foreword
THE FIRST VERSIONS OF QUARKXPRESS gave designers and page layout artists a whole new way to do their work. This new way was better and faster—but for folks who were used to doing pasteup on a light table, it took a little bit of getting used to. So, fittingly, early QuarkXPress books concentrated on helping people who were used to thinking in terms of galleys and X-ACTO knives to learn their way around a GUI.
Today’s designers and page layout artists, however, are quite familiar with the mechanics of digital page layout, thank you very much. The meat-and-potatoes features have been there for years, and they really haven’t changed all that much since they were introduced.
Until now, that is. The architects of QuarkXPress 8 have reworked ...
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