QuarkXPress

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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  • Make Your Mac’s Desktop Drive-free

    If you prefer not to see your attached drives on your Mac’s Desktop, here’s what to do: While in the Finder, choose Finder> Preferences. Click the General tab, and then uncheck the devices you don’t want on your Desktop.

    You…

  • Why Use Picas?

    Every major graphic design application lets you measure pages and page items in your choice of inches, centimeters, and picas. So why use picas? Believe it or not, if you design a page grid using whole and half picas, it…

  • See Inside ePub Files

    The most popular file format for electronic books is ePub. If you want to explore the text and image files inside an ePub file, try this trick:
    Using a utility such as the free StuffIt Expander, expand a COPY of…

  • Trick to Close a Path in QuarkXPress

    There is no explicit ‘join’ command for closing an open Bézier (Pen) path created in QuarkXPress, but it can be done.
    One way is to choose Item> Shape and hold down the Option/Alt key as you select the Freehand Box…

  • Avoid Show-Through in Scans

    To avoid having your scanner pick up text from the back side of the paper you’re scanning (this is called ghosting, or show-through), place a sheet of black paper behind the paper you’re scanning.
    The black paper absorbs the light…

  • Shortcut to Delete a Word in QuarkXPress

    When editing text in QuarkXPress, you can easily delete the word before your text cursor by pressing Command-Delete. To delete the word after your cursor, press Command-Shift-Delete. (Windows: use Ctrl-Delete and Ctrl-Shift-Delete.)
    What a timesaver!

    addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2010%2F08%2F13%2Fshortcut-to-delete-a-word-in-quarkxpress%2F’;
    addthis_title =…

  • An Easy Way to Determine the Size of an Image on a Web Page

    Here’s a quick way for Mac users to save an image from a website, and determine its exact dimensions: just drag it directly from the Web page onto the Preview application icon in your Dock.

    Then, choose Tools> Get Info…

  • Full Resolution Preview Tips for QuarkXPress

    In QuarkXPress, you can view pictures in full resolution by selecting them one at a time and either choosing Item> Preview Resolution> Full Resolution or right-clicking the picture and selecting Preview Resolution> Full Resolution from the contextual menu that appears.…

  • New Federal Guidelines On Internships

    The U.S. Department of Labor has issued new guidelines employers must meet in order to use unpaid interns. The guidelines shift many traditional internships into the temporary staffing category for for-profit businesses, which are now subject to fair wage laws…

  • Quark’s FREE Flash eSeminar on August 24th: How To Make Your Web Site Live And Publish Updates

    Quark’s ongoing series of free online seminars continues on August 24th with “How To Make Your Web Site Live And Publish Updates”. Here’s their description — and remember that you can also accomplish these feats in QuarkXPress 7, with Quark’s…

  • Control Fractions in QuarkXPress

    QuarkXPress has a handy feature that automatically formats any arbitrary fraction (15/16, for example) as a true fraction. Just select the fraction and choose Style> Type Style> Make Fraction.

    Recently, James Felici wrote an excellent article on how to create…

  • Pantone Plus Reference Guide Bargain

    MyDesignShop.com is offering a special deal on Pantone’s new 2010 Plus Series Reference Library Guides. (For more information about the Pantone Plus series, see my previous post here.
    The bundle ships with 14 guides including uncoated versions of the…

  • Rogue Preference Folder May Cause QuarkXPress 7 to Crash in Snow Leopard

    I found this useful post by “MalloryKevin” at Apple’s Support Forums:
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    To all those with Quark 7.5 crashes on Snow Leopard, I think I’ve found a solution.
    As the IT guy, I always experiment with new OSes and our…

  • The 3 Necessary Stages of Professional Project Management DesignCast Series

    Presented by Daniel Schutzsmith, this 3-part series will cover the ins and outs of professional project management, highlighting the difference between online and print projects.

    Sessions Include:
    August 5th – How to Assemble, Work With, and Manage a Team

    Learn…

  • PDF Enhancer Professional 3.5 Improves Color, Security

    Apago’s PDF Enhancer Professional 3.5 is an application that performs many useful tasks that are difficult or impossible in Acrobat. For example, it lets you instantly reduce the file size of a PDF, and set its viewing options, metadata and…

  • Free QuarkXPress 8 Training DVD with subscription to Design Tools Monthly

    For a limited time, new subscribers to Design Tools Monthly can use this link to receive a free copy of “QuarkXPress 8 Essential Training“, written and presented by Jay Nelson (that’s me).

    This DVD from Lynda.com contains more than 8…

  • IT Enquirer 28-page Report Compares QuarkXPress 8 with InDesign CS5

    The IT Enquirer, a cross-media publishing industry website, has released the results of a new, free, in-depth report comparing Web and interactive capabilities in QuarkXPress 8 and InDesign CS5. The report examines the different approaches taken by both companies to…

  • Crop Two Images to Same Size

    In Photoshop, an easy way to crop an image to exactly the same size and resolution as another image is to open both, select the Crop tool, activate the image that has the size you like, and then click the…

  • Print Your Own Decals

    You can now use your inkjet printer to print your own old-fashioned decals — the kind you soak and slide off their paper backing onto your car window or model airplane. Check out www.decalpaper.com.
    If you’re a fan of this…

  • Use Guides Outside Master Page Edges in QuarkXPress

    As you probably know, any ruler guides you add to a QuarkXPress Master Page appear on all the Layout (document) pages based on that Master Page.

    What you may not know is that this also works with ruler guides dragged…

  • 3M Visual Attention Service Determines Impact of Design

    3M Visual Attention Service (VAS) is an online service that allows designers and advertisers to analyze web and print designs for maximum impact. We all know that we only have a few seconds to grab a reader’s attention, but just…

  • Examples of Interactive Content from QuarkXPress

    Quark’s Matthias Guenther pointed out two websites that contain interactive content created in QuarkXPress and exported in .swf format.
    The first is a website for Im’act, a corporate branding company, at www.imact.eu. The second is “Once Upon A Curve“,  a…

  • QuarkXPress More Efficient in the Background Than InDesign

    I run a lot of programs at the same time. Perhaps you do, too.
    This morning, I was curious to see how much of my Mac’s processor was being used by the applications that I had launched earlier but were…

  • Flash Decompiler Adds Flash 10 Support

    Eltima’s Flash Decompiler Trillix extracts the elements from compiled SWF (Flash) files. The new version 4.1 adds support for Adobe Flash 10. It’s not perfect, but it does restore a lot of the edibility of the file, optionally placing every…

  • Flash Decompiler Adds Flash 10 Support

    Eltima’s Flash Decompiler Trillix extracts the elements from compiled SWF (Flash) files. The new version 4.1 adds support for Adobe Flash 10. It’s not perfect, but it does restore a lot of the edibility of the file, optionally placing every…

  • How to Remove Helvetica Neue

    An ongoing annoyance with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 is their requirement that the font Helvetica Neue be active. Because of this, font managers such as FontExplorer, Suitcase or FontAgent won’t let you activate any other version of Helvetica…

  • Inspiring Letterheads at Letterheady.com

    Sometimes inspiration for a new design can come from the past. A collection of interesting letterheads that might serve as that inspiration lives at Letterheady.com.
    The site — which bills itself as “an online homage to offline correspondence” — displays…

  • Chart of Features in QuarkXPress 6, 7 and 8

    Quark has a helpful chart that compares features between QuarkXPress 6, 7 and 8 at their newly redesigned online store.

    I found it fun to see a concise list of improvements added to versions 7 and 8. See it here.…

  • Make Text Glow in QuarkXPress

    A Planet Quark reader recently bemoaned the retiring of ALAP’s ShadowCaster XTension for QuarkXPress, and wanted to know how to create an outer glow using the Drop Shadow features built into QuarkXPress 7 and above.
    Well, here’s one way:
    Type…

  • Make Text Glow in QuarkXPress

    A Planet Quark reader recently bemoaned the retiring of ALAP’s ShadowCaster XTension for QuarkXPress, and wanted to know how to create an outer glow using the Drop Shadow features built into QuarkXPress 7 and above.
    Well, here’s one way:
    Type…


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