QuarkXPress 8: Essential Skills for Page Layout and Web Design

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A HALLMARK FEATURE OF QUARKXPRESS IS ITS ABILITY TO HANDLE TEXT. You can start by importing text from other programs such as Word, or by typing all the text in QuarkXPress yourself. Text is primarily contained within individual text boxes or flows through a series of linked text boxes. You can also flow text along a path and enter it in table cells. Once text is in QuarkXPress, you have precise control over its placement within text boxes, including creating columns and snapping lines to a baseline grid.

Text in QuarkXPress does not need to be final—word processing features, which include the ability to checking spelling and perform search-and-replace operations, allow you to make the inevitable edits that occur in any review ...