Quark Xpress 8

The book I read to research this post was Quark Xpress 8 Essential Skills by John Cruise et al which is a very good book which I bought from Amazon. Quark Xpress started out as a desktop publishing but has gradually also become a website design & ebook generating package. This book is quite old & I’m not sure what the latest version is but it’s still interesting. If you are using Quark Xpress to create a website you can incorporate flash files & pdf files into your site. One thing I can’t understand is they’ve got rid of the polygon tool in version 8, now you have to draw it from scratch, it was introduced in version & was a good feature. One interesting feature is ligatures which are pairs of characters or letters which are joined up for aesthetic reasons, an example being in the word final you might have the fi joined up. In Quark you should never have to create anything from scratch more than once as there are quite a lot of features like cut & paste, & also duplicate & special duplicate which let you save & reuse something easily & even let you easily modify it.