Planet Quark

In QuarkXPress 8, you can drag just about any kind of graphic or text file onto a page, from anywhere you can normally drag a file — the desktop, Adobe Bridge, Portfolio, iMedia Browser, etc. You can even drag text directly from inside a Word document onto a layout page, or even a selection of an image from inside Photoshop onto a page in QuarkXPress.

Now, I don’t recommend doing this in layouts destined for print, because dragging a selection from Photoshop creates an embedded, 72dpi picture in QuarkXPress. But it’s an interesting quick-and-dirty trick to know when you need to show a portion of a design to someone, or when you’re mocking up a Web page in the Web space in QuarkXPress.

If you want to drag that selection back to Photoshop, well, you can’t. Instead, here’s the trick: use the Picture Content tool (or double-click on the picture), copy it, and then switch to Photoshop, create a new document (which will have the exact dimensions as your copied picture), and then paste it in.

Also note: your selection in Photoshop must be rectangular for any of this to work. A non-rectangular selection dragged into QuarkXPress results in an empty picture box.

Pantone’s GoeBridge Coated guide is a fanbook on coated stock that makes it easier to recreate many of the new Pantone Goe spot colors in CMYK, sRGB and HTML. The guide includes swatches for all 2,058 Goe spot colors, with four-color process equivalents, and sRGB and HTML values. 

GoeBridge Coated costs $99 until Jan. 1, then $129. An uncoated version is not currently available.

(Note: QuarkXPress 8.01 includes the Goe color libraries!)

In QuarkXPress, if your keyboard has a right-delete key, it will delete the character to the right of your text cursor.

But get this: Command-Right Delete will delete the WORD to the right of your text cursor. (Windows: Ctrl-Right Delete)