QuarkXPress 2025: The Essentials & Beyond is a self-paced workbook designed to teach you the essential skills to create stunning print and PDF documents. Through 112 guided activities, you'll explore a wide range of QuarkXPress concepts and features, beginning with fundamental topics like navigating the interface, managing palette sets, and customizing tools. You'll learn to work with text and pictures, handle layouts, and leverage advanced features like glyphs, leading, and rules.

The book guides you through creating and refining content, such as importing text and images, flowing text, and utilizing features like opacity, duplicating, and shape-shifting. You'll gain expertise in designing multi-page documents, numbering pages, and managing guides. Mastering techniques like manually linking text boxes, adding borders and insets, and working with style sheets prepares you for professional-grade projects.

Practical exercises delve into specialized skills, including creating tables, applying table styles, working with colors, and managing libraries. Advanced features like the baseline grid, inline formatting, and controlling bad breaks are covered in detail. The workbook concludes with tips on optimizing your workflow, including using templates, handling font and picture usage, and exporting PDFs. Whether you're creating posters, brochures, or multi-page layouts, this hands-on guide provides the step-by-step instruction needed to unlock the full power of QuarkXPress.

This book features:

• QuarkXPress projects, images, and other assets to get started
• Dozens of step-by-step, hands-on activities
• Confidence Checks to challenge your new skills
• Hundreds of supporting screenshots