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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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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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XPress Tags Filter 8.02 Lets You Extend XPress Tags

Quark has released a new version of their XPress Tags filter. Version 8.02 once again allows XTension developers to extend XPress Tags for their own purposes. For example, CopyFlow Gold uses this capability to add tags when round-tripping text containing anchored text and picture boxes. You can pick up the new XPress Tags filter at Quark Labs. [...]

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