QuarkXPress, the old workhorse of the publishing industry since the 1980s has embraced a whole new generation of design and publishing in recent years with forward-thinking features and innovative improvements.
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X-Rite’s Color Control Seminar Coming to 10 Cities Color management device company X-Rite is offering a series of color management seminars in 10 cities across the U.S. and Canada. If you’re responsible for color accuracy in your organization, be sure to consider their press release below. ———————— X-Rite … |
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Watch the Super Bowl Commercials Today Many designers watch (or record) the Super Bowl just to see the commercials. Thankfully, Mashable has collected many of them online, so you can watch them NOW here. Of note, Honda is bringing back Ferris Bueller: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F02%2F02%2Fwatch-the-super-bowl-commercials-today%2F'; addthis_title… |
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The Trick to Opening Older QuarkXPress Documents on a New Mac Based on the number of questions I’m receiving about QuarkXPress 9, there must be a lot of people upgrading! (Yay!) One common question goes like this: “I upgraded Mac OS X and upgraded QuarkXPress, and now my older Quark documents… |
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Xpedx Closing All Stores Well, THIS sucks: https://www.facebook.com/xpedxstores/posts/322737741089968 Xpedx has announced that they are eliminating their “Stores division”, which means they’ll be closing all Xpedx stores after March 30. Many printers rely on an Xpedx store for their papers, envelopes, press supplies, and various other… |
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AutoCorrectXT Fixes Spelling As You Type, in Multiple Languages — Now with Bullets and Numbering! If you want QuarkXPress to check spelling as you type — especially in multiple languages — here’s your solution: AutoCorrectXT 3.5. This $50 XTension for QuarkXPress 7/8/9 from AthenaSoft uses not only its own dictionaries, but it can also… |
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Happy birthday, iPad Isn’t it amazing, the iPad just turned two today. After Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad two years ago, I remember seeing a lot of comments that this is just a big iPhone and only a surfing device. Looking at… |
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How to Use Acrobat Distiller with QuarkXPress QuarkXPress makes beautiful, clean PDFs directly from the FileExport 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… |
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Free DesignCast: Create an iPad App in QuarkXPress I just received this invitation, and thought I’d share it with the Planet Quark community! ———————— FREE DesignCast: iPad Publishing for Everyone! Learn to create your own iPad App When: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern… |
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Free DesignCast: Create an iPad App in QuarkXPress I just received this invitation, and thought I’d share it with the Planet Quark community! ———————— FREE DesignCast: iPad Publishing for Everyone! Learn to create your own iPad App When: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern… |
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Free Webinar: Digital Distributions, Apps and Audience Development On Tuesday, January 31, FOLIO: magazine is offering a free webinar “to learn how publishers are dialing in distribution and marketing tactics for their apps and what they’re discovering about their audience along the way.” The two speakers are intriguing:… |
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Xcatalog Automates Catalogs & Directories Em Software’s Xcatalog lets you create bi-directional links between a QuarkXPress document and an external database. You can link any picture or text element, from a single character to a phrase or paragraph or entire story. It’s excellent for making… |
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Fkeys, QuarkXPress & Laptops If your function keys (Fkeys) on your Mac don’t invoke the commands you expect them to in QuarkXPress (for example, if they change songs in iTunes instead of opening a QuarkXPress palette), read on… On Mac portables and some desktop… |
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Apple Announces New Publishing Tools Apple’s new iBooks Author is a free download through the Mac App Store that will allow you to easily create interactive books. With an interface that will be familiar to anyone who has used Apple’s Pages, they’ve added some new… |
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Quark’s On Demand eSeminars You can watch presentations and demonstrations of Quark products and technology any time! Learn about new features and best practices, and gather tips as Quark’s product managers cover popular topics from desktop publishing to dynamic publishing at www.quark.com/About_Quark/Events/OnDemandSearch.aspx addthis_url =… |
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QuidTap Creates App in QuarkXPress, Posts Impressive Video Wow! This Italian designer created an awesome app in Quark’s App Studio, then created a video that demonstrates its features: http://www.quidtap.it Check out their one-minute video, if only to see what you could easily accomplish in QuarkXPress! (And feel free… |
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FREE DesignCast: Designing Under Pressure with Wacom HOW & Print are offering the FREE online seminar below. If you now use, or want to use, a Wacom graphics tablet, check it out! ———————— FREE DesignCast: Designing Under Pressure with Wacom When: Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, 3:00 PM… |
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It’s SOPA Day! Here in the United States of America, congress is considering a bill that attempts to protect copyrights, but instead may damage the Internet beyond repair. To bring attention to this issue, many prominent websites are “going dark” on January 18th.… |
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Ben Franklin, printer Today is the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, who was, as the Firesign Theatre put it, “the only President of the United States… who was never President of the United States.” Instead, when Franklin died in 1790, he was world-famous as a… |
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Graphic Designer’s Guide To Interactive Design Craig Grannell wrote an insightful and useful “Graphic Designer’s Guide To Interactive Design” at the Digital Arts website. He interviewed several influential design and publishing experts, to discover exactly what new skills a graphic designer needs in order to be… |
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Efficiently Format Tabbed Text in QuarkXPress Working with columns of tabbed text in QuarkXPress can be tedious, since there is no tool to select all the text in a “column”, and you can’t move more than one tab at a time. Also, there’s no way to… |
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