QuarkXPress 6.5 Output Guide
All my articles, books, and podcast about Adobe InDesign aside, I still occasionally do jobs in QuarkXPress (when my client needs a QuarkXPress file back) and once in a while find myself teaching...
View ArticleTake Quark 7 Out for a Spin, Free
In case you've been busy working instead of surfing the web and reading non-essential things, you might have missed the fact that Quark has created a "public beta" of QuarkXPress 7.0 available to...
View ArticleTritones from Grayscales in QuarkXPress 7
In between projects, I've been exploring the second version of the QuarkXPress 7 beta (released March 31 and good till May 2, 2006):http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/seven/register.cfm Most of all,...
View ArticleQuark's Own Blog
Adobe staff members have been blogging merrily away for months now, I’ve cited some of their posts in previous issues:http://blogs.adobe.com/blog-list.htmlBut whither Quark? Why haven’t they jumped on...
View ArticleQuark Coughs up a Real Tryout
Lost in the confusion about multiple betas of QuarkXPress v7 released one right after the other (if it's Tuesday, this must be a Quark beta — obscure old movie reference, sorry kids) is the news that...
View ArticleWho Should Not Upgrade to QuarkXPress 7.01
Quark released QuarkXPress 7.01 a few weeks ago, a free update to version 7.0 that came out in the spring:http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/701update.html Careful reading of that update page,...
View ArticleInDesign's Hidden "Save for Web"
Last week during the InDesign Conference: Master Class in Seattle, one of the seminars I presented was called "Repurposing: Print to Web." If there ever was an exercise in frustration, it was trying...
View ArticleBuried Treasure on Quark.com
Assume that the good folks at Quark have written up a number of free PDF white papers for QuarkXPress 7 users. Let's say that each white paper covers a complex topic specific to the new version, like...
View ArticleDrag from Bridge to QuarkXPress
Adobe Bridge, the free digital asset management program that comes with any Creative Suite product, is one of my favorite programs. When I'm working in InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator, it's...
View ArticleAdd Columns of Numbers in ID/QXP
The other day I was laying out a data-heavy table in InDesign. The bottom row was supposed to contain sum totals of the numbers in each column, but I didn't have those figures. All I had was the...
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