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Faster Finds in QuarkXPress

To save time when using Find/Change or Item Find/Change, Tips for Item Find/Change Tips for QuarkXPress 8, shrink your document window before performing the search.

That way, your computer only has to redraw a small area of your document each time it finds an occurrence, thus speeding up the display. Also, since the highlighted word appears [...]

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Download Old Adobe Acrobat Readers

Adobe maintains an archive of previous Adobe Reader versions at http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

You can download the last stable release of all versions, in all languages and platforms. These can be useful for testing PDFs intended for wide distribution.

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Drag Guides onto the Pasteboard

In QuarkXPress, if you want to drag a guide from the ruler onto your page, and you want the guide to cross over spreads and extend onto the pasteboard, just drag the guide out from the ruler and onto the pasteboard.
This works on the pasteboard above and below the page, as well as to the [...]

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Use “Photoshop PDF” to Keep Text & Vectors

If you import a native Photoshop document (PSD) into QuarkXPress, the type and shape (vector) layers in the Photoshop document will be rasterized when you print or export it to PDF.

To maintain the crisp edges of the type and vectors contained in the Photoshop document, save it in Photoshop PDF format and then import that [...]

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