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How to Find Those Mysterious Missing Fonts

When you open a document in QuarkXPress, the Missing Fonts dialog box will list missing fonts that are used in style sheets, whether the style sheets are applied to text or not. It will also list missing fonts that are used on Master Pages, usually with strange names like -37269, yet when you open the [...]

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2-for-1 QuarkXPress 8 Offer Extended Through February 28th

Quark’s buy-one-get-one-free offer has been extended through the end of February 2010. My previous post explains how to take advantage of the offer, and mentions the best price I could find.
In addition, you can get a free copy of the incredibly powerful Xdata XTension if you buy QuarkXPress 8 from XChange, as mentioned in this [...]

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Neat Image: An Excellent Noise Reducer

Neat Image is a plug-in for Photoshop 7 through CS4, as well as Photoshop Elements and Apple Aperture, that reduces image noise and grain in digital photos and scans. (They also have a standalone version, and a version for video!)

It works well at reducing noise in low-light action photos, as well as in portraits, in [...]

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Kill PasteBoard XT

Markzware’s $29 PasteBoard XT is tremendously useful when you need to increase the space above and below your QuarkXPress pages while working on them.
However, the very first version of it, way back in the QuarkXPress 3 era, wrote code into each document requiring the XTension to be present when re-opening the document. Some of those [...]

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