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Easy Credit Card Number Boxes

It’s easy to create a row of boxes for inputting credit card numbers on a form: Just use the ballot box glyph from the Webdings font, and then apply negative tracking to the boxes, so that their left and right edges overlap without doubling up. In QuarkXPress, use -12 in the tracking field in the Measurements [...]

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Zooming Tricks for QuarkXPress

To zoom into a particular area in a QuarkXPress document, hold down Control-Shift and drag a marquee around an area of your page. QuarkXPress will magnify that area to fill your window, or to 800%, whichever comes first. Other timesavers: press Command-0 to fit the page to the window. (Windows: Ctrl-0) Press Command-1 for 100% view. [...]

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QuarkXPress 8: New Constraints for Old Constraints

There are so many helpful improvements in QuarkXPress 8 that this one slipped my eye — until now. Believe it or not, because of the way QuarkXPress 8 now lets you resize groups of items, it breathes new life into a Very Old Feature: items constrained within boxes. For a quick explanation, see the story below, [...]

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