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Video Tutorial: The Glyphs Palette

I ran across a brief video at the Creative Mac blog that focuses on some of the features in the Glyphs palette. The video is an excerpt from the Talented Pixies tutorials, presented by Mike Strange. You can watch it here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F12%2F30%2Fvideo-tutorial-the-glyphs-palette%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video+Tutorial%3A+The+Glyphs+Palette'; addthis_pub [...]

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Fade a Photo with a Gradient from None to White

In QuarkXPress 7 and above, it’s really easy to make the edge of a photo fade into the paper. Just put an empty box over the area you want to fade, then fill it with a gradient that goes from 100% white to None. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fplanetquark.com%2F2008%2F12%2F24%2Ffade-a-photo-with-a-gradient-from-none-to-white%2F'; addthis_title = 'Fade+a+Photo+with+a+Gradient+from+None+to+White'; addthis_pub [...]

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Everything you ever wanted to know about “Dividing A Box” in the Scripts menu

Need to align a bunch of photos to a grid? Here’s another really useful built-in script for Mac users… If you’ve ever had to make a grid of pictures in QuarkXPress, perhaps to produce the “man on the street” section of a newspaper, you need to read this. If you’re dragging in guides to align images, and [...]

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