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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 addthis_url [...]

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Flash in InDesign? Well, kinda. Flash in QuarkXPress? Oh yeah!

IT Enquirer  has an in-depth report that confirms my opinion of the Flash capabilities in QuarkXPress 7 and 8 vs. those in InDesign CS4. Here are some highlights from the executive summary: ———————— Indesign CS4 has Flash capabilities. QuarkXPress has had them for many years. The report examines the different approaches taken by both companies to interactive [...]

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Quark Releases Free Guide to Integrating QuarkXPress with Adobe Creative Suite

Quark has a free downloadable booklet about using QuarkXPress with Adobe’s Creative Suite, at www.8.quark.com/en/cs_integration. If you’re wondering about how far Quark has come in supporting (and surpassing) Adobe’s applications, this is a great place to start. And it’s not just a marketing piece — each section points out the limitations you’ll encounter when working [...]

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Quark’s “Flash for Everyone!” Webinar

Flash authoring seems to be the Killer Feature that’s turning heads more than any other in QuarkXPress 8. Quark is taking the hint, and is now offering free live Webinars that focus on how easy it is to create interactive Flash projects in QuarkXPress. Today they announced two Webinars, on October 21 and 23. Each is [...]

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