Adobe Quarkxpress 4: An Introduction to Digital Mechanicals (Against the Clock Series)

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Summary: Inadequate and fraught with errors
Review: As an old QuarkXPress user looking for an instructional aid, I was quite disappointed in this book: the exercises are painful and unnecessarily convoluted. The topics are not organized logically. Support files do not display correctly on Windows machines (Mac EPSs lacking previews). But worse than that, this book is full of errors. Frequently, the wrong keyboard commands are given, instructions are omitted or incomplete. Some information is false: "Pages exported as EPS are raster -- not vector..." This is incorrect. Try "Teach Yourself QuarkXPress in 14 Days" by Kate Binder instead.

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Summary: A great way to learn Quark!
Review: The book in question is the best way I could find to learn how to use QuarkXPress 4.x. Very thorough, it teaches new and intermediate users how to best use the tools in the software, to build a nice design. By reading the book and doing the exercises - with the files on the CD ([not] included) - readers/users should come out of it ready to go! I did... :-)