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Summary: What You Need to Know Quark
Review: I'm not a designer, but I have to design in my job. I needed to know Quark, and bought this book. Best move I could've made. You should buy it.Above everything, David Blatner is well-organized. Anyone who writes a software book will know his stuff, but getting that info from his head to mine is not always easy. Blatner makes it easy. For example, each chapter listed in the contents gets a paragraph summary. He gets straight to the nuggets of what I need to know. No mumbo jumbo. The first chapter is the basics. A thirty minute lesson in the important things. In Ch. 2 he elabortates on his initial information in Ch. 1. From then on, he goes bit by bit, explaining tools and typography and how text and images work together. Nothing too techie, but he respects that readers have brains as well. Fantastic layout... he provides graphs and, better yet, the actual dialogue boxes you'll see at a particular point. There are charts galore, including a nice one on special punctuation (how to make ligatures and dagger and that ever elusive cents sign). Among the better aspects of the book was his chapter on tools. My weakest area... and where a lot of people lack, is in knowing how the tools are fully used. My understanding of the text tools multiplied after reading about this. I could on and on. It is a thick book. Not a quick read... typical computer book in that respect. However, when I compared it to the competition, Blatner's Quark Xpress book by far the best by for the cash. I fully recommend this book. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: only the bad thing
Review: There is no cd in this book. It's really bad and difficult to learn how to practice and study this wonderful program with this great book. I am very disspointed aobut it.
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Summary: only the bad thing
Review: There is no cd in this book. It's really bad and difficult to learn how to practice and study this wonderful program with this great book. I am very disspointed aobut it.
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Summary: Outstanding book for those who use or want to use Quark
Review: This book is one of the best I have run across for learning and using a piece of software. I needed to learn Quark quickly and after reading his "Learn QX in 30 minutes" chapter, I felt I had enough of a handle to get started on a project. I am constantly referring to the book now as a reference. Can't go wrong with this one.
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Summary: Outstanding book for those who use or want to use Quark
Review: This book is one of the best I have run across for learning and using a piece of software. I needed to learn Quark quickly and after reading his "Learn QX in 30 minutes" chapter, I felt I had enough of a handle to get started on a project. I am constantly referring to the book now as a reference. Can't go wrong with this one.
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Summary: Just Awesome!!!
Review: This is an AWESOME book there is no big faults. The way David Blatner made this a cross-platformed book just makes it a great deal for Windows or Macs
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Summary: Quarked-Out
Review: This is the comprehensive, huge, heavy, expensive book that used to scare me to death at the bookstore when I was just contemplating getting a computer 2 years ago and abandoning my life as a Ludite. These books are actually pussycats and just big and heavy because they contain every single particle of information about Quark that you could ever want to know. It is written in plain English and begins at the beginning. Follow it through and you will come out the other side a Quark Guru. It is a fabulous resource when you get stuck and just can't remember how to do something or what this or that tool does. It really does answer any question you might have about how to Quark. Essential for Quark freaks and geeks and wannabes.
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Summary: You must buy this book!
Review: This was the best book I have ever read on Quark Xpress, or any other computer program for that matter. I read it from cover to cover and could hardly put it down. The information is given in a clear, concise fashion and the quick wit with which it was written makes it easy and interesting to read. It is a great starter guide for beginners, or a wonderful reference for advanced users. I recommend this book for everyone!
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