Planet Quark

I am Normal

Waxing-Philosophical on the inner workings of Styles Whenever you open a QuarkXPress document, and define a text frame, and start to type, you are typing in a Paragraph  Style Sheet called Normal. There is really no way around it. Every time you make a new text frame and type in Quark you type in Helvetica. Why [...]

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My 3 Favorite XPert Tools are Now in QuarkXPress 8! (part 3)

QuarkXPress 7’s XPert Guides now built into QuarkXPress 8 Quark has been giving away 12 “XPert Tools” XTensions since April 2007 for use with QuarkXPress 7. They were not part of an update, so unless you’ve had your ear to the ground, listening for free Quark XTensions, you may not have heard of them. (You can learn [...]

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How to Share and Synchronize Content in QuarkXPress

Synchronized items and shared composition zones are two of the breakthrough features in QuarkXPress 7 — and carried on in QuarkXPress 8. There are many ways to learn how to use these features, including David Blatner’s Real World QuarkXPress 7. CreativePro.com has an excerpt from the book that shows you how to synchronize and unsychronize content, and [...]

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