QuarkXPress Secrets. The Amazon Explorers. A Word to Windows Users. Introduction. The Birth of an Upgrade. Hardware and System Software Requirements. QuarkXPress and You.
1. Learn QuarkXPress in 30 minutes. Pages, Views and Guides. Text and Text Formatting. Graphics, Colors, Frames, and Lines. Printing. How to Really Sound Like You Know What You're Talking About.
2. QuarXPress Basics. First Steps in Quarking. Know Thy Program. File Management. QuarkXPress's Interface. After You Click OK. Getting Around Your Document. Manipulating Your Document. Changing Defaults. Document and Application Preferences. QuarkXPress from Zero to Sixty.
3. Tools of the Trade. Items and Contents. Item Creation Tools. Bezier Boxes and Lines. Manipulating Items. Relationships Between Items. The Layers Palette. Linking. Guides and Rulers. Frames, Dashes, and Stripes. Tables. Libraries. Moving On.
4. Building a Document. Building a New Document. Master Pages: Elementary. Automatic Text Boxes. Master Pages and Document Pages. Master Pages and the Document Layout Palette. Making Pages. Modifying Your Pages. Automatic Page Insertion. Multipage Spreads. Sections and Page Numbering. Automatic Continued ... Pagination. Foundations.
5. Word Processing. Entering and Editing Text. Importing Text. Finding and Changing. Spelling Checker. Watching Your Words.
6. Type and Typography. Fonts and Font Management. Character Formatting. Type Styles. Color and Shade. Horinzontal and Vertical Scaling. Kerning and Tracking. Paragraph Formatting. Alignment. Indents. Leading. Space Before and After. First Baseline. Tabs. Hyphenation and Justification. Setting Your Own H&J. Widow and Orphan Control. Baseline Grid. Fine-Tuning Type. Kerning and Tracking Tables. Tweaking Hyphenation. Special Characters. Typographic Special Effects. Texting Greeking. Putting It Together.
7. Copy Flow. Style Sheets. What Word Processor To Use. Exporting Text. A Solution: Xpress Tags. BBEdit and Other Text Editors. Getting Your Stories Straight.
8. Long Documents. Books. Lists. Indexes. Putting It Together.
9. Pictures. Graphic File Formats. Importing Pictures into QuarkXPress. Working with Pictures. Picture Management. Dynamically Updating Images. Greeking and Suppression. Page as Picture. Image on the Half Shell.
10. Fine-Tuning Images. The Picture File. Modifying Images. The Style Menu. Contrast. Clipping Paths. Halftones. Many Colorful Shades of Gray.
11. Where Text Meets Graphics. Transparency. Text Runaround. Anchored Boxes. Paragraph Rules. Poking and Prodding.
12. Color. What You See and What You Get. Describing Color. Specifying Color. Multi-Ink Colors. Special Colors. Colors Palette. Blending Colors. Trapping. Color from Outside Sources. Deciding to Work in Color.
13. Printing. Postscript. Deciphering the Print Dialog Box. The Document Tab. The Page Setup Tab. The Output Tab. The Options Tab. Setting Bleeds. The Preview Tab. Page Setup, Printer, and Properties. Print Styles. Color Seperations. Working with an Imaging Center. Troubleshooting. Job Finished
14. Going Online with QuarkXPress. HTML and Web Browsers. Exporting Your Content. Web Documents and File Structure. Creating Web Pages. Building the Web Page. Previewing Your Pages. Hyperlinks. Rollover Images. Image Maps. HTML Forms. Exporting Your Page as HTML. Importing HTML. Xpress Page as Picture. Adobe Acrobat. The Future of Publishing.
Appendix A. Color Management. Managing Color. Before You Use QuarkCMS. Using QuarkCMS. The QuarkCMS About Pictures. Using Hexachrome Color. Color Management at Print Time. Pros and Cons.
Appendix B. Macintosh vs. Windows. File Names, Types, and Creators. What Does (and Doesn't) Transfer. Modern Myths.
Appendix C. Xtensions and Resources. Appendix D. Scripting. Getting Scripting Information. Writing a Script. Looking at a Script. Stuff You Should Know About. More Scripts. The Future of Scripts.
Appendix E. XML Tools. Seperating Content and Form. XML Basics. Quark's XML Tools. The Open Street.
Appendix F. Xpress Tags. Appendix G. ANSI Codes. Index. 