QuarkXPress to Indesign: Face to Face Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition

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This section gives you a basic introduction to InDesign itself, showing the interface and tools that you'll use everyday and how they equate to their counterparts in QuarkXPress.

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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