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Easy Credit Card Number Boxes

It’s easy to create a row of boxes for inputting credit card numbers on a form: Just use the ballot box glyph from the Webdings font, and then apply negative tracking to the boxes, so that their left and right edges overlap without doubling up. In QuarkXPress, use -12 in the tracking field in the Measurements [...]

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Zooming Tricks for QuarkXPress

To zoom into a particular area in a QuarkXPress document, hold down Control-Shift and drag a marquee around an area of your page. QuarkXPress will magnify that area to fill your window, or to 800%, whichever comes first. Other timesavers: press Command-0 to fit the page to the window. (Windows: Ctrl-0) Press Command-1 for 100% view. [...]

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How To Replace a Process Color With a Spot Color

Sometimes, a well-meaning designer will use one of the process colors (C, M, Y or K) to stand in for a spot color — perhaps because they don’t know what color the spot color will be, or because the spot color changes every month and they don’t want to bother changing the definition of the [...]

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