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Cumulus Now Supports QPS 8

Since 1990, Canto’s Cumulus has been helping publishers and designers to manage their ever-growing menagerie of digital assets. At first it managed only pictures, but over the years Cumulus has expanded to become an all-purpose digital asset manager, supporting images, audio, video, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and any other kind of file. Amazingly, it can even keep [...]

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See Complete Picture Paths

The Usage dialog box in QuarkXPress displays the file name and path for any imported picture. Unfortunately, the box usually isn’t wide enough to display the entire path. (In QuarkXPress 7 and 8 you can resize the Usage dialog box, but often even that isn’t enough.) Here are two ways to see the full path to [...]

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Create Your Own iPhoto Page Layouts

When making a book in Apple’s iPhoto, you’re not limited to the page designs provided by iPhoto. You can use any program to create a page, including QuarkXPress. Here’s how: Create a page in QuarkXPress the same size as the other pages in the iPhoto book you’re making. Fill it with photos, backgrounds, and other art. Export [...]

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