Quark Users Get Looking Good Treatment

Ventana title delivers design sophistication and time-saving tips

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., November 21, 1994--"Part One of being a good graphic
designer," advises master designer Joe Grossmann, "is to create
alternatives." And creating alternatives to run-of-the-mill desktop
publishing is what his new book, Looking Good With QuarkXPress, published
by Ventana Press, excels in.

The latest addition to Ventana's acclaimed Looking Good Library, which also
includes Looking Good in Print and Looking Good With CorelDRAW!, Looking
Good With QuarkXPress shows Macintosh and Windows users how to combine the
power of QuarkXPress with sound design concepts. The CD-ROM bundled with
the book features examples from the book and DTP tools for Mac and Windows
users.

A brief overview of XPress 3.3 tools and techniques, design fundamentals
and the design development process leads into the heart of the book: an
example-laden presentation that works readers through practice
documents--such as newsletters, business cards, brochures and
letterhead--from start to finish. Headlines, photo arrangements, color
effects and page design receive thorough treatment. Grossmann also shows
how to create useful templates to save time and effort.

More than just a how-to book, however, Looking Good With QuarkXPress
inspires readers with 40 pages of full-color examples illustrating inside
secrets on how many of them were created. A valuable reference section,
organized in plain-English categories, featuring dozens of tricks of the
trade for Mac and Windows users, completes the volume.

The Looking Good With QuarkXPress CD-ROM contains 45 original templates
featuring formats for newsletters, brochures, letterhead, fax sheets and
business cards, as discussed in the book; a grab bag of XPress goodies,
including backgrounds, special picture boxes and graphics, designed by Joe
Grossmann and David Doty; and a variety of fonts, clip art and Xtensions
for both Mac and Windows.

Another unique feature of this book is its Online Companion, developed by
Ventana Online and residing on Ventana's World Wide Web server. Providing
access to an archive of free Quark Filters and extensions available on the
Internet, it also links to desktop publishing archives and clip art
available on the Internet. The URL for the Looking Good With QuarkXPress
Online Companion is http://www.vmedia.com/lgwquark.html.

Looking Good With QuarkXPress is 544 pages, illustrated, with CD-ROM and an
Online Companion. ISBN: 1-56604-148-1. Suggested retail price: $34.95. For
orders in the U.S. only, call 800/743-5369.

Author Joe Grossmann is a graphic design consultant and former editor of
ThePage, one of the longest running and most respected "how-to" journals
for desktop publishers. Grossmann currently writes a QuarkXPress Tips &
Techniques column for Mac/CHICAGO and is co-author of Newsletters From the
Desktop (Ventana Press).

Ventana Press and Ventana Online are divisions of Ventana Communications
Group, Inc., a diversified publisher of computer-related information
tools. Ventana Online supports VCG products with Internet-based content
and context. Ventana Press publishes books and other materials that help
computer users become more productive, including Advertising From the
Desktop, The Gray Book, The Presentation Design Book, Mosaic Quick Tour,
The Internet Tour Guide series, Word for Windows Design Companion and Mac,
Word & Excel Desktop Companion. All titles are available in bookstores and
by writing Ventana Press, PO Box 2468, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27515; by calling
Ventana's toll-free order line, 800/743-5369; by faxing Ventana at
919/942-1140; by email at orders@vmedia.com; or via the World Wide Web at
http://www.vmedia.com/index.html.

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