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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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MadeToPrint: Extreme Printing, Now for QuarkXPress 8

Axaio’s remarkable MadeToPrint is now available for QuarkXPress 8, in addition to 5, 6 and 7. This XTension lets you combine all the settings for a particular printing job into a selectable item: printer, Page Setup, PDF, EPS and Print settings. This lets you (or an inexperienced coworker) easily print the same document to a [...]

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Flexography from QuarkXPress

Vision’s Edge’s FlexScale has been updated to version 8. It lets you scale a document as it is output to a printer, with separate control over vertical and horizontal scaling. This $59 XTension for QuarkXPress 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 makes it much easier to output anamorphically for flexographic printing. addthis_url [...]

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