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An Important Warning About Switching to InDesign

An Important Warning About Switching to InDesign The story below is from Rob Underwood, who spends his days helping organizations learn how to use InDesign. In this story, he speaks out against blindly adopting an InDesign workflow, when keeping a QuarkXPress workflow would make much more sense — and save tons of money and time. I [...]

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Report Analyses Quark Publishing System 7, Smart Connection Enterprise, and K4

Here at Planet Quark, Robert Underwood has been writing a series of stories about how to create an editorial and advertising workflow for a small publication. How to Start a Publication He works with a lot of small publishers, and his stories are based on the techniques he sees being used in the real world. In [...]

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Synchronized swimming for captions

There’s an actor and DJ over here in the UK called Craig Charles. Fans of cult British TV shows might remember him playing Lister in the comedy sci-fi series ‘Red Dwarf’. One of Craig’s many memorable observations on life goes like this: if one synchronized swimmer drowns, do they all have to? Talking of sci-fi, I [...]

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