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Motionographer Website Inspires Motion Designers
The Interactive layout space in QuarkXPress gives you powerful tools for creating graphics that move and interact with the user. If you’re looking for inspiration in the realm of motion design, check...
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Convert PDF to QuarkXPress 8 or 9
Sometimes, all you have is a PDF of a document, and really need to get it into QuarkXPress for editing. Longtime conversion experts Markzware have just released their PDF2DTP XTension for QuarkXPress...
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Convert InDesign to QuarkXPress with ID2Q
Markzware’s ID2Q is an XTension for QuarkXPress 8 or 9 that lets you convert Adobe InDesign files to QuarkXPress format. It supports documents from InDesign versions 1.5 through CS6, created on Mac or...
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V and T are Your New Best Friends
The new, streamlined interface in QuarkXPress 8 and 9 makes this already efficient program even more efficient to use. I’ve developed a new habit of pressing V and T to access the Item and Text tool,...
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BigPicture: the Best Picture Manager
Badia Software’s BigPicture ($59.99, or $14.99/month) is an XTension for QuarkXPress 9/8/7/6/5/4 or a plug-in for InDesign CS6/5/4/3 that lists all the pictures in a project, and shows all the vital...
View ArticleSelect an Entire URL with One Double-click
QuarkXPress 8 and above selects an entire URL when you double-click any part of it, such as www.planetquark.com/category/learn/tip/. The entire text is selected and ready to be copied or formatted the...
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Update a Style from Existing Item in QuarkXPress
In QuarkXPress 8.1 and higher, you can update a Paragraph, Character, or Item Style from an existing page item: just click the Update button on the appropriate Style palette. Here’s how it looks on the...
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Drag Selections from Photoshop to QuarkXPress
In QuarkXPress 8 and higher, you can drag just about any kind of graphic or text file onto a page, from anywhere you can normally drag a file — the desktop, Adobe Bridge, Extensis Portfolio, iMedia...
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Trick to Close a Path in QuarkXPress
There is no explicit ‘join’ command for closing an open Bézier (Pen) path created in QuarkXPress 9 and earlier, but it can be done. (QuarkXPress 10 will have this feature built-in.) One way is to...
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One Way to Import Hyperlinks from Microsoft Word into QuarkXPress 8 or 9
As mentioned in our previous stories, QuarkXPress 10 now imports hyperlinks from Microsoft Word documents. But what about previous versions of QuarkXPress? If you’re still using QuarkXPress 9, you can...
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New Facebook Group about QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress’ Facebook Group was founded 3 months ago today. Here’s some history about it: A bit over three months ago, customers asked Quark why we don’t create a Facebook Group for QuarkXPress. Quark...
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How to see previews of QuarkXPress documents – even without having...
QuickLook / Quick View images and other files Often you need to see a preview of documents that you have on Mac. With images that’s easy, by setting the right preferences MacOS / OS X will show you...
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