QuarkXPress

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB North Atlantic Publishing Systems’ CopyFlow Gold ($495) is an XTension for QuarkXPress and a plug-in for InDesign or Illustrator that automates importing and exporting text and pictures in layouts. To use it, you manually or automatically label each text box… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Apple’s Newsstand app for the iPad is bringing in more than $70,000 a day… in magazine and newspaper subscriptions and purchases. That’s good news for publications looking to increase their subscriber base and great news for the designers who lay (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Here’s a trick for updating the file format of your old logos and other artwork to a more modern format such as PDF: Adobe Illustrator has a script that will batch-convert them for you! Just open them all in Illustrator… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB QuarkXPress product manager Dan Logan wrote up a truly helpful explanation of what you need to know about Apple’s new iPad 3 “Retina Display” when creating apps from QuarkXPress and App Studio. You can see the original here, but I’ve… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB FontGear’s FontGenius 2.6, a font identification utility that recognizes typefaces within images, is now available for both Mac and Windows. This free upgrade adds Twitter and email integration to let you show co-workers the fonts you’ve identified. Get the upgrade,… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Tomorrow, May 23, Folio magazine is offering a free webinar that focuses on how some magazines are successfully marketing their digital versions. Have a look: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F05%2F22%2Ffree-digital-magazine-marketing-webinar-from-folio%2F'; addthis_title = 'Free+Digital+Magazine+Marketing+Webinar+from+Folio'; addthis_pub = '';… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB GfK MRI’s Starch Advertising Research has determined what they consider to be the most effective print advertisements of 2011. They looked at over 87,000 single- and double-page ads to see which ones elicited the best recall or response from consumers.… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Quark is offering a free eSeminar next Thursday, May 31: “App Studio: Preparing your app and issues for sale“. Check it out: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F05%2F21%2Ffree-app-studio-eseminar-preparing-your-app-and-issues-for-sale%2F'; addthis_title = 'Free+App+Studio+eSeminar%3A+Preparing+your+app+and+issues+for+sale'; addthis_pub = '';… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Now in its 22nd year, the HOW Design Conference has become one of the best events to attend for a creative boost. It takes place June 22-25 in Boston, with more than 3,000 creatives expected to attend. This year’s conference… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Badia Software’s Duplica XT 4.5 ($30) is an XTension for QuarkXPress 4/5/6/7/8/9 that specializes in copying formats and items from one place to another. It lets you copy and apply formats onto several boxes at once, including character formats, paragraph… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB ? Next week (May 22-24), Photoshop author and expert Lesa Snider is presenting a FREE, three day online intensive for CreativeLIVE on what’s new in Photoshop CS6. CS6 is a BIG upgrade for Photoshop, so I hope you can join in and… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB This morning, Macworld.com posted my rather lengthy review of InDesign CS6 here. While the CS6 upgrade is definitely worthwhile for InDesign users, I don’t think the new features will cause any QuarkXPress users to switch. In fact, if imitation is… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Acrobat’s soft proofing feature simulates onscreen how your final print will look once it’s printed. How you activate it depends on your version of Acrobat. Here’s how to find it in Acrobat X: choose ViewToolsPrint ProductionOutput Preview… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Pictaculous (free) is an interesting online service that builds unique color palettes from images you upload. Just use the Web interface or email a photo to colors@mailchimp.com and Pictaculous will report back with a color palette based on the colors… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Exportools Standard 4 for QuarkXPress and InDesign ($59) lets you export individual document pages or spreads as separate PDF, EPS, rich text, or JPEG files, among others. The export process can be started through the standalone application or through a menu… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Pantone’s new Lighting Indicator Stickers ($49 for 40) help you see when lighting conditions are right to evaluate colors in printed projects. Each sticker has two color swatches that match when your light falls in the D50 range and appear… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Quark is offering a $349 upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 from any version of QuarkXPress. Check it out:   addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F05%2F04%2F349-upgrade-to-quarkxpress-9-from-any-version%2F'; addthis_title = '%24349+Upgrade+to+QuarkXPress+9+from+Any+Version'; addthis_pub = '';… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB When using the Link tool in Acrobat, you can easily create a link that fits exactly around some text by holding down the Command and Option keys while selecting the text. (PC users: Ctrl and Alt…). Another approach is (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Clever headline, eh? No, I’m not going to delve into that question — but that is the title of a post at CreativeBits.org that praises Quark for their superior customer service. No kidding! Check it out: http://creativebits.org/differe... addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F05%2F02%2Fthe-difference-between-quark-and-adobe%2F';… (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Mac OS X has a built-in way to view all of the files in a folder at once using Quick Look. Go to any folder full of pictures, press Command-A to select all of them, and then press Option-Command-Y…. (Read more...)

Categories: QuarkXPress Tags: extNewsletterCB Here’s a quick, helpful tip: To delete all the horizontal guides in QuarkXPress, Option/Alt-click the top (horizontal) ruler. To delete all the vertical guides, Option/Alt-click the vertical ruler. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F05%2F01%2Fdelete-all-guides-in-quarkxpress%2F'; addthis_title = 'Delete+All+Guides+in+QuarkXPress'; addthis_pub = '';… (Read more...)

A good number of people are still using QuarkXPress 8, so I thought I’d point everyone to some FREE XTensions from Quark that really help. You can download them all by clicking here. Print Selection… This useful (dare I say necessary?) XTension

ITW Foils has a free 60-minute on-demand webinar that helps designers, brand-owners and printers better understand the process, impact, and benefits of holography. Titled “Custom Holography Simplified: Brilliant New Possibilities for Designers, Brands and Printers”, watch it at www.itwfoils.com/explore/webinars. Their…

I found Quark’s press release (below) to be a good reality-check. Have a look! — Jay Nelson ———————— VIEW Magazine on the iPad Brings Photography to Life … FusionLab, Inc. Chooses QuarkXPress 9 and App Studio to Create iPad Apps; Agency

CodeWare’s PictureXTracker 5.1 is a €199 XTension for QuarkXPress 8/9 that searches your hard drive for linked pictures that are missing from one or more documents. You can control whether the search is case sensitive, includes file extensions or…

Badia Software’s XTensions are terrific — we’ve written about them many times. And now they’re on sale! Check it out: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F04%2F25%2F50-off-badia-xtensions%2F'; addthis_title = '50%25+Off+Badia+XTensions%21'; addthis_pub = '';

I just found a cool tutorial by Jamie Cross on how to build a dynamic Newsreader App using Quark App Studio: http://www.jamie-cross.net/... The tutorial also features a video showing the solution in iOS Simulator. I like the simplicity of the…

The Quark folks are on a roll with their free Webinars — this Thursday, they’re covering Style Sheets. See the invitation below for details: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F04%2F23%2Ffree-webinar-style-sheets-in-quarkxpress%2F'; addthis_title = 'Free+Webinar%3A+Style+Sheets+in+QuarkXPress'; addthis_pub = '';

Mac users: One little tweak in your System Preferences could save you lots of time, and possibly reduce the number of wasted prints: In the Print & Fax Preference pane, you can click on the Default Printer popup menu to control which…

2012 press releases Expanded PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM now offers 25 percent more color options CARLSTADT, N.J. and SAN FRANCISCO, Apr...