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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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Difference between an app and its content I was recently asked again about the difference of app and issue and I frequently see that people ask about “my app exported out of QuarkXPress”. So I thought it might be a good idea to explain the difference between… |
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How to Use Old Printer Drivers with Lion OS X 10.7 (Lion) doesn’t include drivers for some older printers, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use them with Lion — even if you can’t find an installer! Assuming you already have the printer driver you need installed on… |
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WIRED UK Named Digital Magazine of the Year The Digital Magazine Awards have named WIRED UK magazine of the year. WIRED editor David Rowan was also named Editor of the Year. Sponsored by Quark, the Digital Magazine Awards had finalists from 18 countries. See them all at www.digitalmagazineawards.com.… |
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Jabber! A Free iPad Magazine App That Showcases Quark’s Capabilities This is cool. Quark created a free iPad app that showcases the kinds of interactive features you can put into an iPad app when you create it in QuarkXPress. Get Jabber! here. Here are a few clever things to notice:… |
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Print Booklets in Acrobat If you need to print a booklet, and your application doesn’t have a booklet-printing feature, try using the Print Booklet feature in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X. You’ll find it in the Print dialog under the Page Scaling popup… |
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File Juicer: File Recovery Magic File Juicer ($18) is a terrific utility for recovering text, graphics, movies, and audio from files that you cannot open. Whether the file is damaged, or just so old that you can’t open it on your current Mac, just drop… |
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Quite Revealing for Pre-press Issues Quite Software’s Quite Revealing ($249) is a plug-in for Acrobat that displays and fixes problems in PDF files that are intended for print or pre-press. In side-by-side before-and-after windows, you can see overprints, fonts, RGB colors, ICC profiles, separations, transparency,… |
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How to get readers to shake their iPad and love it Today a customer directed my attention to brilliantly created app from Atomic Antelope: http://youtu.be/gew68Qj5kxw (I have no further insight on how this app was created, I’d assume custom development.) However that reminded me of a prototype I created for a… |
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How to get readers to shake their iPad and love it Today a customer directed my attention to brilliantly created app from Atomic Antelope: http://youtu.be/gew68Qj5kxw (I have no further insight on how this app was created, I’d assume custom development.) However that reminded me of a prototype I created for a… |
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Replacements for Lorem Ipsum Here are some alternates for the basic dummy text known as Lorem Ipsum: Fillerati creates plain text from the works of Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, Jules Vernes, and Jack London and even lets you add HTML tags for paragraphs, lists, and… |
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Replacements for Lorem Ipsum Here are some alternates for the basic dummy text known as Lorem Ipsum: Fillerati creates plain text from the works of Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, Jules Vernes, and Jack London and even lets you add HTML tags for paragraphs, lists, and… |
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Reenable Lion’s Window Scroll Bars In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple decided to hide window scroll bars unless you’re actually moving up or down in a window’s view. Unfortunately, those bars don’t always appear when they should, but you can make them always show.… |
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35 Portfolio Websites Ray Cheung collected 35 outstanding examples of portfolio websites. For some inspiration, see it here: http://www.webappers.com/2011/03/08/35-professionally-designed-personal-portfolio-websites/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2011%2F12%2F09%2F35-portfolio-websites%2F'; addthis_title = '35+Portfolio+Websites'; addthis_pub = '';… |
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Convert a PDF to Grayscale The easiest way to convert a full-color PDF into grayscale is to use Acrobat 8 and above. Choose AdvancedPreflight… then under Preflight profiles choose PDF fixups. One of the fixups is named Convert to grayscale. While you’re there,… |
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Reduce Banding in Photoshop If you’ve ever created a gradient or drop shadow in Photoshop and had it “band” when saving (especially for for the Web), you’ll appreciate this tip: To eliminate banding, add a little Gaussian noise to the Luminance channel. Do this:… |
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New Adobe Upgrade Policies Recently, Adobe shortened their paid upgrade cycle to once per year (instead of their previous 18-month cycle). Now they’ve announced that upgrades to version 6 of their Creative Suite will only be available to registered owners of the version directly… |
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Tip for Importing Videos When 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.… |
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Slideshow: Free Fonts For Holiday Greetings Macworld posted my story and slideshow on Free Fonts For Holiday Greetings: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2011%2F12%2F05%2Fslideshow-free-fonts-for-holiday-greetings%2F'; addthis_title = 'Slideshow%3A+Free+Fonts+For+Holiday+Greetings'; addthis_pub = '';… |
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Free Placeholder Images The next time you need a placeholder image for your layout, try www.lorempixel.com. You can choose a size and a category, and Lorem Pixel delivers a free image you can use in your layout. Categories include abstract, animals, city, food,… |
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Quark Named to EContent’s List of Companies that Matter Most in Digital Content Industry There are plenty of changes afoot on this year's list, as well as at the magazine. As you read through these pages, you'll notice a change in the EContent 100 categories--and a subsequent change in the companies we're honoring this… |
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Instant Color Callouts with ColorBreaker Gluon’s ColorBreaker for QuarkXPress 7-9 ($219) takes the tedium and complication out of color markup of your documents. The XTension/plug-in automatically tags color information for placed graphics as well as natively-created items. The tags are connected to these elements with… |
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