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Video Tutorials from Quark

Quark has posted several enlightening video tutorials at http://8.quark.com/learn_more.html, including:

How to draw custom shapes with the newly redesigned Bézier pen toolset
How to create picture popouts (how to crop your subject on certain sides of a box while letting the subject extend past the box on other sides)
Design and output Flash directly from QuarkXPress 8

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Video Tutorial: Backward Compatibility

QuarkXPress could always save documents down one version: 7 to 6, for example. In this very brief video, I show where to go to export your document for earlier versions of QuarkXPress. I also mention a secondary use for this export function: breaking Layouts away from a Project.

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Video Tutorial: Print Dialog Box Enhancements in QuarkXPress 7 and 8

The Print dialog box in QuarkXPress 7 and 8 looks quite different from previous versions. If you’ve ever wondered what all those options do in the Print dialog box, follow along with me as I lead you through each and every one of them — throwing in a few tips along the way.
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Video Tutorial: Automatic Color Management in QuarkXPress 7 and 8

Everyone wants to see, on their own display, how their project is going to look when printed. In QuarkXPress 7 and 8, it’s possible to do just that.
The trick is to use Quark’s Job Jackets feature, and to place into the Job Jacket a profile for the device(s) that will be outputting the document. An [...]

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