Planet Quark

Quark Relaunches Online Support

Quark’s online support has undergone a major reconstruction, now featuring more powerful help and solutions at the company’s website. In addition to the existing free support pages, Quark has set up a ‘virtual knowledge base’, comprising a public search form for its help database and a self-service portal for registered users. The knowledge base provides [...]

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Tip: Select an Object Behind Another Object

When several items or objects in a page layout overlap, invariably the one that you want to edit is sitting behind another. Luckily, QuarkXPress provides a simple method for selecting objects behind other objects. In QuarkXPress, just Command-Opt-Shift click on the item that’s in front of the others (Win: Ctrl-Alt-Shift). With each subsequent click, QuarkXPress selects [...]

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Overmatter Checkmate in Seven Moves

Forgive me, I don’t do design. I’m a sub-editor, which means I work with words. Page layout programs aren’t very good at words: they are graphic design programs that just happen to let you put text into boxes… rather grudgingly, in my opinion. The fact that QuarkXPress is great for typography is irrelevant. I’m talking about [...]

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