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Designers Toolbox

www.DesignersToolbox.com is a handy and helpful website that provides many different kinds of truly useful, free resources, such as: dozens of envelope sizes with downloadable die line files labels, covers, and carriers for CDs and DVDs standard postcard sizes with templates for InDesign and QuarkXPress folder templates folding diagrams paper sizes (American, international, and Japanese) standard Web banner dimensions and file [...]

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Free Output Enhancer for QuarkXPress 6

Back in December 2005, Quark posted a free Output Enhancement XT for QuarkXPress 6.5. Because of its high value, and because many users missed it, we present it here. With it installed, you can create multiple output styles, or presets, for printing and exporting to PDF, EPS and PostScript files. You can even save Output Groups, [...]

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Quickly Isolate a Layer

Here’s a trick for quickly toggling the visibility of just one layer in the Layers palette: Control-click the eyeball next to a layer to make it visible and hide all other layers. Control-click a different layer to make that layer visible and hide all the others. To show all layers you must Control-click and choose Show [...]

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