Appendix A. XTensions and Resources

When you set up that grill you bought for barbecuing your chicken and vegetables, it’s unlikely that you’re going to find all the best grilling instruments in the box. So what do you do? You drive back to the store and fill up your shopping cart with a big fork, a spatula, a baster, cleaning equipment, and so on. If you’re into carpentry and you buy a table saw, you know you’re also going to buy a cross-cut blade separately.

And, after you pull your copy of QuarkXPress out of its packaging, one of the first questions you should ask yourself is: “What other tools do I need to get my job done?”

As any QuarkXPress demon knows—and as I’ve tried to make clear throughout the book—QuarkXPress is not an island. I don’t ...

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