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Easily Create Complex Shapes Using “Merge Union”

In QuarkXPress, a complex box shape can be created easily by combining several simple boxes. Draw any number of overlapping rectangles, ellipses, Bézier items and freehand boxes, then select them all, and choose Item> Merge> Union. The other Merge options, such as Difference, Intersection, etc., will combine or remove the items from each other in other [...]

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Font Examiner Finds Glyphs Across All Your Fonts

Artistic Techworks’ Font Examiner 3 does more than just let you see and print all the characters in a font — although it does that very well. My favorite features are: You can open and work with uninstalled fonts. You can view the outlines and anchor points of any glyph (character). You can copy and paste any glyph [...]

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QuarkXPress 8 Tip: The Master Page Toggle

QuarkXPress 8 adds a powerful new way to work with Master Pages: the Master Page toggle button. You’ll find it at the bottom left of the project window, just to the left of the horizontal scroll bar. When you click this button, your page view will swap between the same position on the project page and [...]

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