Quark XPress for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Working With This Professional Desktop Publishing Program"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Quark XPress is a software package set of desktop publishing tools that is considered the professional standard for magazines, newspapers, books and catalogs. Quark XPress now comes with web publishing tools that make it even more useful and versatile.

Quark XPress also now comes with a Table Tool, to allow you to organize data and page elements into rows and columns. This is an example of online technology (using HTML tables to design web pages, which is extremely common even though these HTML tags were not designed for that purpose) spilling over to conventional publishing.

The view you use to work with in Quark XPress comes with both vertical and horizontal rulers so you can pinpoint your page layout

There is also the pasteboard, a border area where you can place elements while you decide where they should go within the page layout.

It comes with many palettes of icons or functions. The Tool and Measurements are the most commonly used palettes. You can import graphics into Quark XPress, and use the Bezier Picture Box Tool. With XTensions, you can add use third party add-on programs to further enhance the program's usefulness.

Quark XPress can handle such file formats as: .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .png, MacPaint, TIFF, PICT, Windows MetaFile / .wmf. Most of these are familiar to computer users, especially anyone who's put images online.

It can also use such file formats as Photo CD / .pcd, developed by Kodak for storing digital photographs.

Encapsulated PostScript / .eps -- the standard for Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw and Macromedia Freehand.

Quark XPress also uses the printing-technical Document Color Separator / .dcs which divides images into five separate files, using the conventional printing CMYK model (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black). Each of four files contains the information for one of those colors. The fifth file contains the instructions for combining those four files back into the original image.

If you use your PC for publishing, work for such a publisher or want to be or work for such a publisher, you need to learn Quark XPress.

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