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  • 10 Free Online Tools Every Designer Should Know

    These free resources help you manage your business, store files, find stock images that aren’t copyrighted, explore color, and more.

  • Nominate GU for Open Web Awards ‘08

    http://tinyurl.com/5cca84 Show GurusUnleashed.com a little love. Please nominate us in the How-To category of OWA 2008.

  • BigPicture 4 for QuarkXPress 8

    Badia Software’s BigPicture is one of my favorite XTensions, and now it’s available for QuarkXPress 8 as well as earlier versions. It really is “The Best Picture Manager“, as I referred it in this story from last year.

    You can learn more about it at Badia’s website and in this article in X-Ray Magazine.
    If you spend much [...]

  • Tip for Greeking Text

    Kevin Siegel did a nice writeup of how to control when QuarkXPress displays text as a gray bar, rather than as actual letters — otherwise known as Greeking.
    Check it out at IconLogic’s blog here.

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  • QuarkXPress 8: Tricks for Text

    There are a number of small but helpful improvements in QuarkXPress 8 involving hyphens, invisible characters, spell checking, and indents. Below is an explanation of the small improvements made in the world of text, courtesy of X-Ray magazine. (This is an excerpt from “QuarkXPress 8: a Suite Response“.)
    DON’T DASH OFF
    In QuarkXPress 6.X, if you added [...]

  • Sample Colors with Your iPhone

    Code Line’s Color Expert is an amazingly cool iPhone application that turns your iPhone into a color sampler and color scheme builder. You can take photos with the iPhone’s camera, match colors in the photos to Pantone PMS and Goe swatches, build custom Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary and Triadic color palettes, email your color schemes, [...]

  • Jay Nelson Discusses Using InDesign with QPS 8 in the Design Tools Weekly Podcast

    Last week, I wrote a story about Quark’s announcement that Quark Publishing System 8 (QPS 8) will support both InDesign and QuarkXPress documents here. In fact, you’ll be able to use and update stories, pictures and other assets within documents in both programs.
    I also had the opportunity to discuss this dramatic turn of events in the [...]

  • Video: Find Ornaments in QuarkXPress

    On Monday, Jeff Gamet provided a tip about how to use the Glyphs palette to quickly isolate any ornaments that are included in OpenType “Pro” fonts, Find Ornaments in QuarkXPress. 

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    I liked it so much that I made a short video tutorial that shows you how to do it. Enjoy!

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  • QuarkXPress 8: In The News

    I just stumbled upon Quark’s “In The News” page at their website. If you’re looking for a collection of reviews of QuarkXPress 8 from some of the world’s most respected publications, this is a gold mine.
    You may want to use it for reference when you or your boss is thinking of upgrading. It can also [...]

  • Find Ornaments in QuarkXPress

    OpenType fonts may contain many kinds of glyphs, from standard letters to fractions, swashes, and ornaments. Often, the fonts with “Pro” at the end of their name will contain beautiful ornaments that you can access by using the Glyphs palette in QuarkXPress 7 or 8. 
    Try selecting a font such as Adobe Caslon Pro, Bickham Script [...]

  • New Book: “QuarkXPress 8: Production Tricks and Experts’ Tips”

    The first “big” book on QuarkXPress 8 is out, and it’s a great one: QuarkXPress 8: Production Tricks and Experts’ Tips. In its 244 letter-sized pages, editor Cyndie Shaffstall compiles the best real-world advice and techniques from 11 QuarkXPress experts.
    Yes, there’s a chapter for newbies that covers the basic techniques to lay out a page. [...]

  • Everything you ever wanted to know about “Dividing A Box” in the Scripts menu

    Need to align a bunch of photos to a grid? Here’s another really useful built-in script for Mac users…
    If you’ve ever had to make a grid of pictures in QuarkXPress, perhaps to produce the “man on the street” section of a newspaper, you need to read this.
    If you’re dragging in guides to align images, and [...]

  • Aliens in QuarkXPress

    QuarkXPress has hidden aliens. To see one in action, select a page item and press Command-Option-Shift-K (Windows: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-K). An alien will walk onto your page from the right side zap the item off the page. The effect is most fun when the item is near the right side of your display. 

    Do this 5–12 times to [...]

  • Will QuarkXPress 6.5 Run On Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?

    Apple released new MacBooks and MacBook Pros recently, and today I received a question about whether it was safe to use QuarkXPress 6.52 with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
    The answer is: QuarkXPress 6.52 and earlier will NOT work 100% properly with Leopard (nor does Adobe Creative Suite 2, which is of the same vintage). And [...]

  • Video: Convert Dingbats to Picture Boxes

    If you often use the same dingbats or illustrations from a picture font in QuarkXPress, you can eliminate the need to include the font when outputting if you convert those characters to picture boxes in QuarkXPress. This video by Jay Nelson shows you how.

    PLAY Video: Convert Dingbats to Picture Boxes
    Just select the character(s) and choose Style> [...]

  • Instant File Name Labels for Pictures

    QuarkXPress offers an easy way to add the file name of an imported picture to a text box beneath the picture box.

    Under the script-shaped menu, choose Picture Box> Place Name. A text box will be created beneath the picture box, the same width as the picture box, containing the name of the picture file. The [...]

  • Quark’s Quick Look Filter Lets You Preview QuarkXPress Documents in Leopard

    I am WAY excited about Quark’s new filter for the Quick Look feature in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It lets you visually flip through your QuarkXPress documents in the Finder, just like you can flip through your albums in iTunes!

    Although it only shows the first spread of each document, that’s usually enough to identify [...]

  • Quark Now Supports Adobe InDesign and InCopy in Their Quark Publishing System

    Quark Now Supports Adobe InDesign and InCopy in Their Quark Publishing System

    Here’s a dramatic turn of events: Quark has announced that their widely-used Quark Publishing System (QPS) will soon support Adobe InDesign and InCopy, making it the only publishing solution that lets users use either QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign as their page layout tool.
    What does [...]

  • QuarkXPress 8 Tip: Balance Bézier Handles With One Click

    When you’re working with the Pen tool in QuarkXPress 8, you can instantly smooth out a rogue anchor point by balancing the lengths of its adjustment handles.

    To do that, get the Select Point Tool (looks like an arrow touching a path), and then hold down the Option or Alt key and click on the anchor [...]

  • The Faces of Quark: Joshua Duhl on Dynamic Publishing

     
    It’s no secret that Quark in recent years has been expanding dramatically into the world of enterprise publishing. (Boy, I dislike that word: “enterprise”. The only place I want to hear Enterprise is in a Star Trek franchise. Come to think of it, I don’t like “franchise” either. The creative part of my brain attaches [...]

  • Creative Business

    Creative Business is a bimonthly newsletter that focuses on the business side of being creative. It has advice for freelancers as well as for business owners and managers, and over the course of a year manages to cover many of the most important issues involved in running your business — especially in the current economic [...]

  • MadeToPrint: Extreme Printing, Now for QuarkXPress 8

    Axaio’s remarkable MadeToPrint is now available for QuarkXPress 8, in addition to 5, 6 and 7. This XTension lets you combine all the settings for a particular printing job into a selectable item: printer, Page Setup, PDF, EPS and Print settings. This lets you (or an inexperienced coworker) easily print the same document to a [...]

  • Professionally Fix Photos in iPhoto

    onOne Software’s Essentials 2 for iPhoto is an incredible bargain at $59.95. It combines the best of their professional Photoshop plug-ins into one helper for iPhoto:

    The “Make It Better” tool lets you compare color, contrast and brightness adjustments side-by-side, then choose the best result. Based on their fabulous PhotoTune technology, it works like an eye test: [...]

  • Everything you ever wanted to know about “Box Tools” in the Scripts menu

    It looks like a scroll, it’s in the menu bar, and you’ve probably never used it.
    If you use a Macintosh, it’s about time you realize how many hours of work this feature will save you — and could have been saving you since QuarkXPress 4. You’re gonna love this once you realize all the things [...]

  • Easily See “Registration” Color

    If you have trouble telling the difference between Black and Registration colors in QuarkXPress, you can change the Registration color to display as any color you’d like. It still prints on every plate; it just looks different on screen. 

    The quickest way to edit a color is to Control-click or right-click on the color in the [...]

  • Reg Marks XTension For Mac

    RegMarks XT is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that allows users to specify the length of registration marks when exporting a layout as a PDF. This allows QuarkXPress PDFs to comply with the Ghent Workgroup specifications and should be used by anyone creating PDFs when submitting advertisements to a Ghent?compatible workflow.

  • Reg Marks XTension For Mac

    RegMarks XT is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that allows users to specify the length of registration marks when exporting a layout as a PDF. This allows QuarkXPress PDFs to comply with the Ghent Workgroup specifications and should be used by anyone creating PDFs when submitting advertisements to a Ghent?compatible workflow.

  • Reg Marks XTension For Windows

    RegMarks XT is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that allows users to specify the length of registration marks when exporting a layout as a PDF. This allows QuarkXPress PDFs to comply with the Ghent Workgroup specifications and should be used by anyone creating PDFs when submitting advertisements to a Ghent?compatible workflow

  • Reg Marks XTension For Windows

    RegMarks XT is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that allows users to specify the length of registration marks when exporting a layout as a PDF. This allows QuarkXPress PDFs to comply with the Ghent Workgroup specifications and should be used by anyone creating PDFs when submitting advertisements to a Ghent?compatible workflow

  • Reg Marks XTension For Windows

    RegMarks XT is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that allows users to specify the length of registration marks when exporting a layout as a PDF. This allows QuarkXPress PDFs to comply with the Ghent Workgroup specifications and should be used by anyone creating PDFs when submitting advertisements to a Ghent?compatible workflow


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