Planet Quark

Planet Quark’s Coverage of QuarkXPress 8

Quark’s announcement of the upcoming release of QuarkXPress 8 is the biggest thing we’ve seen in the Quark universe since we began Planet Quark last July. Quark says that version 8 is complete, but they’re not saying when it will ship, other than “before the end of July”. I guess it takes time to get manufactured [...]

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Use QuarkXPress Libraries to Share Pictures

QuarkXPress’ Library feature lets you store often-used objects for later use. Another use for a Library is to provide graphics to someone else to use for laying out pages. If you give someone a library, they don’t need the high-resolution files, just the screen previews in the library. When you get the file back, XPress will [...]

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New Drivers for Old Scanners

Many scanners do not have drivers for the newest versions of Mac OS X, but are still valuable. If you want to continue to use your existing scanner, try Hamrick’s VueScan ($40–$80) or LaserSoft’s SilverFast ($49 & up). Both are likely far better than the software that came with your scanner, with advanced options such as [...]

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