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Free Training Videos on Quark Interactive Designer

Quark Interactive Designer lets you create and export SWF (Flash) animations from within QuarkXPress 7, using new or existing QuarkXPress layouts and tools. For a limited time, you can watch the entire series of 18 video tutorials, Getting Started with Quark® Interactive Designer, presented by Ted LoCascio and produced/hosted by lynda.com. addthis_url [...]

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Fit Box to Text: Video Tutorial

QuarkXPress 7 includes an XPert BoxTools XTension that automatically fits a text box to the text that’s inside it. Choose Window> XPert BoxTools> Fit Text. Then select an option for expanding or contracting the text box to fit its text: either from the bottom, right side, left side, or top. Click the Fit button and the box will [...]

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Create a Round/Square Box Screencast

QuarkXPress lets you create boxes with either rounded corners or square corners, but not both. But sometimes you want rounded corners at the top and square at the bottom… Here are two ways to create a box with round and square corners in QuarkXPress. The first way involves moving anchor points, while the second way is [...]

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