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The Faces of Quark: Paul Brothe on Customer Service

Over the past year and a half, I’ve been conducting a series of interviews with executives and managers at Quark, Inc., to discover who’s piloting the ship, where they came from, and what they’ve accomplished since arriving at Quark. 
The first was with Ray Schiavone, Quark’s CEO. Next was Joshua Duhl, who leads Quark’s efforts to [...]

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QuarkXPress 8: New Constraints for Old Constraints

There are so many helpful improvements in QuarkXPress 8 that this one slipped my eye — until now. Believe it or not, because of the way QuarkXPress 8 now lets you resize groups of items, it breathes new life into a Very Old Feature: items constrained within boxes.
For a quick explanation, see the story below, [...]

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The Pleasure Is All Theirs

Yesterday, I received the following sentiment in “Margie’s Print Tips,” and I want to share it with you. As a longtime fan of printing, it spoke to me and I know it will speak to many of you…
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I had a run-of-the-mill Tip all ready to publish today, when I realized that it is nearly Thanksgiving [...]

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QuarkXPress 8: Tricks for Text

There are a number of small but helpful improvements in QuarkXPress 8 involving hyphens, invisible characters, spell checking, and indents. Below is an explanation of the small improvements made in the world of text, courtesy of X-Ray magazine. (This is an excerpt from “QuarkXPress 8: a Suite Response“.)
DON’T DASH OFF
In QuarkXPress 6.X, if you added [...]

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