Introduction QuarkXPress 8

IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, QUARKXPRESS HAS EVOLVED from a desktop publishing tool for print to a multi-faceted publishing program that provides expert output to a variety of media. Using QuarkXPress 8, you can do everything from produce a handful of business cards printed with a color inkjet to press-ready PDF files to Web sites and interactive Flash files. But the real reason you use QuarkXPress is to make these things look cool. Back in the day, we heard that word often from Quark founder Tim Gill, who never lost focus on the importance of design tools.

The hallmark features of QuarkXPress—expert typography and precision item placement—are augmented today with automatic drop shadows, image editing, opacity, drawing ...

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