InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Introduction

Have you ever bought a new cell phoneor a washing machine, or a power tooland muddled through the instruction manual? The people who write the manual assume that we've never had a cell phone beforeor a washing machine or a power toolso they start from the beginning. Don't forget to plug it in, they remind us, as though we thought electricity comes from the air.

Granted, there is a place for instruction manuals that start from the very beginning (a very good place to start, as Julie Andrews would tell us), but what we often need is a manual that knows what we already understand and just tells us what's different and what's the same. That's what this book is all about. We know you already know how to use QuarkXPress. We know many of you recently added a new toolAdobe InDesignto your existing toolbox of desktop publishing applications. We know you want to get up and running as fast as possible. Others of you may be reading this book because you're considering whether you should even start using InDesign.

We've been there; we feel your pain.

Learning a new program is no fun, especially when you're facing a publication deadline. We want to help you learn InDesign faster and easier by leveraging your knowledge, using what you know about QuarkXPress as a springboard to greater efficiency with this new program.