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Safely Using Fonts Across Platforms

Recently, I wrote a brief article in Macworld that covers the issues surrounding the use of fonts across platforms, including Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows.

It includes the short list of fonts you can count on having on all platforms, why documents created in Mac OS 9 may have “missing fonts” when opened [...]

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Avoiding Text Reflow When Opening Legacy Documents in QuarkXPress 7 or 8

QuarkXPress 7 and 8 have an improved text engine, so if you copy and paste text from an older document into a document created in QuarkXPress 7 or 8, it may reflow.
Here’s how all this works:
For QuarkXPress 6 to work on Mac OS X, Quark added support for the basic character sets in Unicode (OpenType) [...]

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Inline Graphics Made Easy

I was speaking at the Newspaper Institute of Technology recently, and a QuarkXPress user asked me if there was any way to make a picture flow along with the text that belongs with it. Her project was a directory, with pictures of people at the beginning of their description.
The answer of course is YES! And [...]

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Make the Most of Your Advanced OpenType Fonts

QuarkXPress 7 and higher let you take advantage of the intelligence built into advanced OpenType fonts — characters that change shape depending on their position within a word or sentence, automatic swash substitutions, and so on.

Note the two different uppercase “A”s and uppercase “P”s in the first two lines. Same for the “d”s and “s”s [...]

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