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Ben Franklin, printer

Last Sunday was the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, who, as the Firesign Theatre put it, was “the only President of the United States… who was never President of the United States.”
Instead, when Franklin died in 1790, he was world-famous as a scientist and a diplomat, but he named himself in his will as simply [...]

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A New Year’s Resolution

As I look forward to 2010, I’m thinking about things I can do to make me more effective — and profitable. For those of us who are veteran QuarkXPress users, one thing that really should be on the list is to learn its new features.
For me, that means picking up the three tricks for using [...]

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Mele Kalikimaka from Planet Quark!

From Wikipedia:
“Mele Kalikimaka” is a Christmas song sung as a warm greeting from Hawaii. The song takes its title from the phrase “Mele Kalikimaka”, derived from the Hawaiian pronunciation of “Merry Christmas”.
Since Hawaiian does not have all English phonemes, in particular the “R” and “S”, “Merry Christmas” becomes “Mele Kalikimaka” (note the substitution of [...]

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HOW Sweet It Was! Thoughts from a design conference — part 3

I don’t know when Quark began making it difficult (if not impossible) for schools to teach QuarkXPress. I do know that Quark fixed that problem a year or two ago, as they began providing QuarkXPress to schools for a very low price, and began providing packages of training materials to the teachers. Go, Quark!
Why does [...]

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