Planet Quark

QuarkXPress 8: Drag and Drop Anything, Anywhere

Drag-and-drop in QuarkXPress 8 is tremendously more powerful than it was in previous versions. YOu can pretty much drag anything onto a QuarkXPress page from anywhere on your computer. You an also drag items from a QuarkXPress page onto any application that supports drag-and-drop, or even onto your desktop. The details of how this all works [...]

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More Powerful Data Merge

Meadows Publishing Solutions’ DesignMerge is a suite of XTensions that let you assign “variable links” to any range of text or any picture box in a document, making it easy to print personalized documents. Each link is tied to a specific field in an external database. When the document is “merged,” these variable links fill with [...]

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Happy Birthday, Planet Quark!

PlanetQuark.com turns one year old today. We posted our first story on July 30, 2007: “Planet Quark Begins Its Orbit Today” and more than 500 stories have appeared since then. I want to thank our regular contributors for their contributions over these past 12 months. Their stories have helped make Planet Quark the most vital resource [...]

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