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The Trick to Opening Files Exported from QuarkXPress 7 to 6

If you’re having trouble opening files in QuarkXPress 6 that have been exported from QuarkXPress 7 down to version 6, be sure you’re using QuarkXPress 6.5.2 to open them. This is the newest version of QuarkXPress 6, and is the one that QuarkXPress 7 aims for. To find out your version of QuarkXPress, either watch the [...]

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Will QuarkXPress 6.5 Run On Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?

Apple released new MacBooks and MacBook Pros recently, and today I received a question about whether it was safe to use QuarkXPress 6.52 with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The answer is: QuarkXPress 6.52 and earlier will NOT work 100% properly with Leopard (nor does Adobe Creative Suite 2, which is of the same vintage). And [...]

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Cumulus 7.6

Canto Cumulus is a tremendously powerful asset-managing system that can track all kinds of files, including individual assets placed inside QuarkXPress or InDesign layouts, separate pages of PowerPoint presentations, images, audio, video, and literally any other kind of file. New features in version 7.6 include: built-in rendering of PDF thumbnails and previews for files; generation of PowerPoint [...]

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