QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face - Softcover

Gruman, Galen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764583794 ISBN 13: 9780764583797

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

Synopsis

This task-based, two-color reference is written for the exploding number of users switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign for their professional page composition needs. In this unique book, Galen Gruman directly addresses the questions and concerns of readers who are converting from QuarkXPress-the most widely used page layout program in the world-to InDesign, which is rapidly gaining ground and boasts better typography features and quicker performance.

• Helpful illustrated, side-by-side spreads show Quark users how to easily perform the same or similar tasks in Adobe InDesign
• Provides real-world tips and techniques for unleashing InDesign's capabilities
• Includes a useful tear-out quick key reference card
• Covers QuarkXPress 4, 5, 6 (incl through 6.5) and InDesign 2, CS, and CS2.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Here's the easiest way possible to move from QuarkXPress to InDesign

You've decided to make the move to InDesign, but you need to get up to speed quickly. You still have deadlines to meet, even during the transition. Galen Gruman, a veteran of electronic publishing since its birth, provides exactly what you need—a side-by-side comparison showing you how to do every task in both QuarkXPress and InDesign. You'll see each procedure in a self-contained, two-page spread with Quark processes on the left and InDesign on the right. Making the switch just got easier.

• Compare InDesign tools to those of QuarkXPress
• Set up the fundamental elements–pages, sections, templates, libraries, and guides—and quickly identify operational differences
• Understand InDesign's approach to importing, creating, and applying colors, gradient fills, and shades
• Recognize the significant procedural differences for importing and managing the flow of text
• Learn the special tricks only InDesign can do
• Get the same high-quality typography from InDesign that you expected from QuarkXPress
• Explore the differences in creating and modifying graphics
• Prepare files for output, manage fonts, and work with multiple-chapter documents
• Follow easy, step-by-step instructions for performing Quark operations in InDesign

About the Author

Galen Gruman is principal at The Zango Group, an editorial and marketing consulting firm, and senior editorial associate at BayCreative, a creative consultancy, as well as editorial director at EmergeMedia, publisher of IT Wireless. Currently a frequent contributor to SBS Digital Design, Macworld, CIO, and InfoWorld, he has also been editor of Macworld and M-Business, executive editor of Upside, West Coast bureau chief of Computerworld, and vice president of content for ThirdAge.com.
He is coauthor of 16 other books on desktop publishing, covering InDesign, QuarkXPress, and PageMaker. Gruman led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986, Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991, and most recently the design newsletter SBS Digital Design. Originally a newspaper reporter in Los Angeles, Gruman got caught by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn’t recovered.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0764583794
• ISBN 13: 9780764583797
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432