The August 6th Design Tools Weekly podcast

Thu, Aug 9, 2007

The August 6th Design Tools Weekly podcast mentions DragNCopy, a terrific free XTension from Badia Software that lets you duplicate items by simply holding the Option key while dragging. DragNCopy also remembers the offsets of the last drag and copy operation, so you can generate additional duplications simply by pressing Command-D. (Mac only.)

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Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7, and the QuarkXPress 7 training at Lynda.com. In addition, Jay writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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Duplicate and Align at the Same Time Says:
September 19th, 2007 at 9:01 am

[...] What is DragNCopy? Well, in all Adobe design programs including InDesign, dragging on an object while holding down the Option key produces a duplicate of that object. DragNCopy lets you do the same in QuarkXPress 7 for Mac. Just download the XTension from here, drop it in your XTensions folder, relaunch QuarkXPress and away you go. If you haven’t heard of this free XTension, you haven’t been reading closely enough: Planet Quark told you about it last month, http://www.planetquark.com/2007/08/09/the-august-6th-design-tools-weekly-podcast [...]

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