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A Competition to Re-color the QuarkXPress 8 Interface

The other day, I received an email from Dave Walsh about QuarkXPress 8. My favorite quote: “I love QXP 8 but hated the big green move tool so, I changed it. :-)” Here’s Dave’s take on it: For reference, here’s the original design in QuarkXPress 8: I think his design is pretty good… I like how it would seem familiar [...]

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QuarkXPress 8: WYSIWYG Font Menus

Adding on to Rob Underwood’s fantastic post yesterday about fonts in QuarkXPress 8, QuarkXPress 8 New Font Features below is a little bit more on how the WYSIWYG font menu works, courtesy of X-Ray Magazine. (This is an excerpt from “QuarkXPress 8: a Suite Response.”) Just another pretty face Another Dan Logan-titled finally feature: font names displayed [...]

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QuarkXPress 8: New Font Features

Working with type in QuarkXPress 8 is easier than ever before I just taught my first Quark 8 class to a group of people for the first time, and I have to tell you, Quark never felt so good! I know the word “intuitive” gets thrown around way too much in this industry, but I really [...]

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