Comments on: At last! Convert Illustrator or Photoshop Shapes to Native QuarkXPress Items!

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:46:35 +0000

Thanks, Paul! If you haven’t tried the Bezier tools in QuarkXPress 8, you may want to try them out. They now work just like the tools in Illustrator, so you should be comfortable with them.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:06:34 +0000

I don’t believe the point is to simply edit vectors in Quark instead of Illustrator [I'm NOT a big fan of 'all-in-one' software, so I do my vector work in AI]. HOWEVER, I have [since older versions of Quark] on many occasions wanted to use a unique shape I created outside of Quark as a picture box. Since I find it easier to manipulate vector shapes in Illustrator, it’s great to know that I can do so and still use the object Quark. There were projects that I redesigned because I was not able to use a complex shape the way I wanted to in Quark. Now I will not have to rule out a design concept based on that inability. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Jay!

By: Jay Nelson

Jay Nelson — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:03:44 +0000

JT: So they’ll be native QuarkXPress items, and you can use the QuarkXPress skills you already have to breathe life into them. :-)

By: JT

JT — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:37:09 +0000

I can’t imagine why anyone would prefer to edit vectors in Quark over Illustrator. Thanks for the tip, though.