QuarkXPress to Indesign: Face to Face

If you know Quarkxpress then learning Indesign is simple with this book. Easy to read, the text cuts right to the chase, with a page by page comparison of each task. Also works in reverse, if you know Indesign this book will help you learn QuarkXpress in no time.

I found this book to be a great reference quide for the handling of two different programs in the desktop publishing field. Would recommend for anyone starting new employment where this situation would be involved handling these programs.

Like many others out there making the switch, I have too. Going from Pagemaker to Quark I literally did in an hour. Quark to InDesign, well that took a little longer. This book is great when your in the middle of doing something and you know what you want, but no clue how to do it or what its called. For those things that need some further explaination I recommend the CS2 Bible. I use Face to Face more, but both are great references to have!

This book is indispensable to any designer making the switch from Quark Xpress to InDesign. Using the side-by-side comparison of features is much faster than trying to find the answers online, because in order to look up how to do something, you have to know what it's called in InDesign. With this book, you don't. As a book designer, my only complaint is that the layout is unnecessarily complex. The shaded areas and bars, underlined text, icons and more were distracting rather than helpful, and the quality of the paper used makes the book look and feel cheap. Even so, I highly commend the author for the fine job in compiling such a massive amount of material and I highly recommend the book.

This is perfect for anyone making the transition from QXP to InDesign. Galen Gruman's new book, QuarkXPress to InDesign: Face to Face, features over 250 switcher questions answered in step-by-step, head-to-head tutorials. In addition to walking the reader through common how to tasks like setting bleeds and crops, creating style sheets, exporting Web documents, and defining clipping paths, Face to Face also delivers other valuable information such as a chart comparing the graphic file formats supported for placement by both applications, shortcuts to insert special characters like em dashes and trademark symbols, and workarounds when features are not mirrored between the programs-such as working with the levels of a placed image, something that can be accomplished directly within Quark 6.5 but not in InDesign CS2. A section on InDesign-only tools and charts of keyboard shortcuts for both programs round out a desk reference indispensable to any switcher.