New collaboration…
March 25, 2011
QuakXpress 6.1
I began a new collaboration recently, as a direct result of my push for more business. One of the agencies I approached were looking for some spare capacity to produce a 40 page document in Quark 6.1. Not a software I use that much now (All of my major clients migrated over to Adobe InDesign some years ago).
All text and images were to be supplied. Just needed to design a cover and style the text, but to a short deadline. (what other kind is there?)
Typical double page spread of the finished report
Cover design and logo for the project were designed on the Monday, whilst waiting for the text. These were done in Photoshop and Illustrator respectively.
Setting up style sheets in Quark makes life easier in a 40 page document
First section of text arrived on the Tuesday and the finished job was required by Wednesday to go to print. The biggest part of the job was styling the text.
Although it takes time to set up style sheets, time spent early on in a project this size pays dividends later on (i.e. when the text looked like it wasn’t going to fill the 40 pages it was a simple matter to change the bodtext style size and leading to make it occupy more space).
Paragraph, heading and bullet styles applied to a typical spread
