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The New Pen Tools in QuarkXPress 8

Editing vector-based shapes is part of the daily routine for many graphic designers, and smart QuarkXPress users have been making the most of the Bézier pen tools that Quark added to QuarkXPress in version 4. (For those of you who are counting, that was 11 years ago.) Now, because of the changes Quark made to QuarkXPress [...]

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Easy Flash from QuarkXPress

Quark first began offering users a way to create Flash content with Quark Interactive Designer as an XTension for QuarkXPress 7. With the introduction of QuarkXPress 8, however, Flash support is included right out of the box, and you can leave your programming skills at the door. Flash support in QuarkXPress 8 feels like an integrated [...]

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Going Online with QuarkXPress

Peachpit Press has posted the Web publishing chapter from Real World QuarkXPress 7, by David Blatner and Patti Schulze. Wisely, the chapter assumes that you’re a QuarkXPress page layout professional, not a Web coder. So, it explains in basic terms what you need to know to increase the value of your XPress documents by taking [...]

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