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Another FREE XTension from Quark: XPressMath creates professional mathematical equations

Quark has released a FREE XTension for QuarkXPress 8 that lets you typeset complex mathematical formulas and equations directly in QuarkXPress. In addition to providing a relatively simple interface for building the equations, you can edit existing equations in a WYSIWYG window. You can also use a style-sheet-like system to ensure that all equations in [...]

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Badia FullMeasure: Extreme Efficiency Enhancements for QuarkXPress 8, 7, 6, 5 and 4

Badia FullMeasure adds a new Measurements palette to QuarkXPress 4/5/6/7/8 that provides quick access to almost every control that is otherwise hidden in a QuarkXPress dialog box, plus a lot more.  It adds new timesaving abilities, such as: Find boxes by more than 50 attributes, such as background color, dimensions, suppression, opacity, frame style, empty boxes, picture [...]

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Video Tutorial: Automatic Color Management in QuarkXPress 7 and 8

Everyone wants to see, on their own display, how their project is going to look when printed. In QuarkXPress 7 and 8, it’s possible to do just that. The trick is to use Quark’s Job Jackets feature, and to place into the Job Jacket a profile for the device(s) that will be outputting the document. An [...]

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How to Link an Excel Spreadsheet to a Table

To link an Excel spreadsheet to a table in  QuarkXPress 8, just enable the Link to External Data checkbox when creating the table. For comparison, linking an Excel spreadsheet to a table in InDesign requires that you set an application preference before importing the spreadsheet into the table. In CS4, choose InDesign> Preferences> File Handling and [...]

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