Chapter Two. QuarkXPress Basics

Whoever thought that something called a “gooey” would ever be so important to the way we use a computer? While most of the world clutched their crib sheets to remember “how-to” keyboard codes for saving a document, moving to the end of a line, or drawing a box, a few visionary researchers came upon a simple idea: a graphical user interface, or GUI (gooey). “Why not,” these researchers asked, “make using a computer more intuitive?” These researchers developed the underpinnings of the Macintosh GUI, which in turn laid the groundwork for desktop publishing.

The basics of the Macintosh and Windows GUIs are simple: Create an environment in which somebody can get the most out of a computer without having to remember too ...

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