The Quark book for the do-it-yourselfer
Rating:
5 / 5
If you're like me, and you'd rather jump into a manual than sit in a classroom, then this Visual Quick-Start is for you. This is the fourth VQS book I've bought and it doesn't disappoint. Actually, I'm a Quark Xpress power user, but needed to train some non-design trained coworkers on basic Quark usage. The simple step-by-step sections are easily digested and build on each other as you progress. Alternately it serves as a great reference is you just want to learn how to do a single task.
An excellent tutor at my desk-side.
Rating:
5 / 5
I bought this book as a last resort because my Computer Graphics professor told us we would need lots of tutoring in order to pass with good grades. I was totally "Quark illiterate" before taking this course and buying the book. Honestly, this book explains a lot more than a tedious 3 week course in class could. The book has taken me step-by-step through all the process of learning style-sheets and type-boxes. This is all stuff I would have never been able to learn if not for the book itself.Elaine Weinmann's very well illustrated and easy to read/follow excersises are what any student needs to reach their goal in QuarkXPress. My copy is different in color to the one sold here, but it looks exactly like the one my professor uses.
And, because the book is not really that thick, it can fit in either a backpack or a briefcase. The only main problem I have with the book itself is the paper-back style. It will fray and dog-ear pretty fast, so take good care of this "Bible for Quark". And...for those whom are not too sure of their Keyboard shortcuts, thank God, they put them in the back of the book.
At least I don't have to search my binder for my photocopies! That little extra is a Godsend. Especially when you are being tested on the shortcuts. Get the book. Hope my review helped you.
Quark Primer
Rating:
5 / 5
Few tasks are more bleak, than standing in front of a huge blank wall of knowledge with no foothold. If you are a Quark student, you need a learning book that won't pester your mind with repetitive attempts at humor; or bog down your reading comprehension with side-notes of PC movements (there are none). For that reason alone, Elaine's book is easier to understand than the David Blatner book. One method of learning Quark is to use the "Preview to QuarkXPress" that ships with Quark 4.0 (Part# 10039US), and proceed through the "Music Festival" exercise along with a copy of this book. When "Preview" talks about "Setting Tabs and Creating Rules", this book has examples of what a 10% Offset "Rule Above" looks like, set to "Indent" and "Text". Neither of which "Preview" provides. When I start new chapters in "Preview", I first read Elaine's chapter, then I read and complete the "Preview" exercise. Eventually, you will need David Blatner's book as well.-Kirk Perry-...
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