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• How to Use Acrobat Distiller with QuarkXPress

  6735 readersQuarkXPress makes beautiful, clean PDFs directly from the File> Export menu. However, if your workflow requires that you use Acrobat Distiller to generate the PDFs, you can tell QuarkXPress to create a PostScript file instead. Here’s how: 1. Change Quark’s preferences (QuarkXPress> Preferences> PDF) to “Create PostScript File for Later Distilling“. 2. Optionally, enable the “Use Watched

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  QuarkXPress 9.0.1 Update Fixes Bugs

  18324 readers Quark has released an update to QuarkXPress 9, bringing it to version 9.0.1. This maintenance release fixes bugs in several areas, including problems exporting PDFs when using TrueType or OpenType fonts, previews of imported PDF, EPS or AI files, conditional styles, callouts, text indents in non-rectangular boxes, and more. Quark has posted a list of resolved

• Convert Illustrator or Photoshop Shapes to Native QuarkXPress Items

  3767 readersHere’s an easy way to bring a shape (path) from Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop into QuarkXPress as a native QuarkXPress item. QuarkXPress 9 (or QuarkXPress 8 with Quark’s Print Selection XT, available here) has a hidden feature that lets you convert an embedded clipping path into an editable Bézier box within QuarkXPress. Here’s how it

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  The Shortest Path to ePub and Kindle from QuarkXPress

  3780 readersHere’s the world’s shortest description of how to convert a book to ePub or Kindle from QuarkXPress 9: Choose Layout> Add Pages to Reflow View… Choose View> Reflow View… and tag your content. Choose File> Export> Reflow as ePub… or File> Export> Reflow as Kindle… That’s it! (Yes, I know: you’ll need to set some options and add cover art, but

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  Import & Export Layers in QuarkXPress

  5457 readers AthenaSoft’s LayerCraftXT is an XTension for QuarkXPress 8 and 9 that lets you import and export layers from a QuarkXPress layout. Art Directors and Graphic Designers can at an early stage of a project, for example, share a layer to a new document and allow translators to start their work. When exporting layers, you can choose

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  QuarkXPress 9 New Feature: ImageGrid

  3380 readersQuark has done an excellent job of explaining each new feature in QuarkXPress 9 here. I’ve copied their explanation of the new ImageGrid feature below, but Quark also has a 32-second video that demonstrates how it works here. ———————————————————– ImageGrid Import and Automatically Build Grids of Images Whether you’re a photographer who needs to assemble

• Which font for your ePub?

  4056 readersFinding fonts for Digital Publications is not very difficult — mostly you’ll be searching for fonts that are display well on screens. The more difficult task can be licensing, as every font vendor has different licensing schemes, and some do not even allow you to embed their fonts in a PDF… When creating native apps or other

• Don’t fear the white lines in your PDFs created by InDesign

  3252 readersYou're working on a brochure under a tight deadline, and upon opening the PDF you just exported from Adobe InDesign, you notice thin white lines around certain objects. Don't miss your deadline spending too much time troubleshooting the InDesign file. More often than not, those white lines are simply a display glitch in the PDF

• Tip for Importing Videos

  6337 readersWhen importing a video file onto a page in QuarkXPress, InDesign, or any other application, it’s best to let the program create the container for you. In other words, don’t create a box or frame, and then import the video. Instead, choose File> Import and then click onto your page. That way, the program creates a box