QuarkXPress 6 Tips: Working with Layers
The ability to work with layered files was an important addition to QuarkXPress 5, and with version 6, Quark added some small but significant improvements to this valuable feature. In fact, some publishing pundits assert that the layer functionality of QuarkXPress is superior to that found in Adobe InDesign.
Not every needs to use layers, of course, but once you’ve incorporated them into your workflow, you’ll wonder how you’ve ever done without them.
In this excerpt from “QuarkXPress 6 Bible,” you’ll see how layers work and how you can put them to work for you.
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Excerpted from “The QuarkXPress 6 Bible” by Galen Gruman and Barbara Assadi. Copyright © 2003 Wiley Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced here by permission of the publisher.
This article was last modified on January 11, 2022
This article was first published on March 19, 2004
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