QuarkXPress

Sometimes, you’re working with text that’s formatted with one Style Sheet, but you realize you want to change the formatting of a different Style Sheet. Unfortunately, if you click on the second Style Sheet, your current text will be tagged…

Color management device company X-Rite is offering a series of color management seminars in 10 cities across the U.S. and Canada. If you’re responsible for color accuracy in your organization, be sure to consider their press release below. ———————— X-Rite …

Many designers watch (or record) the Super Bowl just to see the commercials. Thankfully, Mashable has collected many of them online, so you can watch them NOW here. Of note, Honda is bringing back Ferris Bueller: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2012%2F02%2F02%2Fwatch-the-super-bowl-commercials-today%2F'; addthis_title…

Based on the number of questions I’m receiving about QuarkXPress 9, there must be a lot of people upgrading! (Yay!) One common question goes like this: “I upgraded Mac OS X and upgraded QuarkXPress, and now my older Quark documents…

Well, THIS… sucks: https://www.facebook.com/xpedxst... Xpedx has announced that they are eliminating their “Stores division”, which means they’ll be closing all Xpedx stores after March 30. Many printers rely on an Xpedx store for their papers, envelopes, press supplies, and various other

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If you want QuarkXPress to check spelling as you type — especially in multiple languages — here’s your solution: AutoCorrectXT 3.5. This $50 XTension for QuarkXPress 7/8/9 from AthenaSoft uses not only its own dictionaries, but it can also correct…

Isn’t it amazing, the iPad just turned two today. After Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad two years ago, I remember seeing a lot of comments that this is just a big iPhone and only a surfing device. Looking at…

QuarkXPress makes beautiful, clean PDFs directly from the File> Export menu. However, if your workflow requires that you use Acrobat Distiller to generate the PDFs, you can tell QuarkXPress to create a PostScript file instead. Here’s how: 1. Change Quark’s…

I just received this invitation, and thought I’d share it with the Planet Quark community! ———————— FREE DesignCast: iPad Publishing for Everyone! Learn to create your own iPad App When: Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern…

On Tuesday, January 31, FOLIO: magazine is offering a free webinar “to learn how publishers are dialing in distribution and marketing tactics for their apps and what they’re discovering about their audience along the way.” The two speakers are intriguing:…

Em Software’s Xcatalog lets you create bi-directional links between a QuarkXPress document and an external database. You can link any picture or text element, from a single character to a phrase or paragraph or entire story. It’s excellent for…

If your function keys (Fkeys) on your Mac don’t invoke the commands you expect them to in QuarkXPress (for example, if they change songs in iTunes instead of opening a QuarkXPress palette), read on… On Mac portables and some…

Apple’s new iBooks Author is a free download through the Mac App Store that will allow you to easily create interactive books. With an interface that will be familiar to anyone who has used Apple’s Pages, they’ve added some new…

You can watch presentations and demonstrations of Quark products and technology any time! Learn about new features and best practices, and gather tips as Quark’s product managers cover popular topics from desktop publishing to dynamic publishing at www.quark.com/About_Quark/Events/OnDemandSearch.aspx addthis_url…

Wow! This Italian designer created an awesome app in Quark’s App Studio, then created a video that demonstrates its features: http://www.quidtap.it Check out their one-minute video, if only to see what you could easily accomplish in QuarkXPress! (And feel…

HOW & Print are offering the FREE online seminar below. If you now use, or want to use, a Wacom graphics tablet, check it out! ———————— FREE DesignCast: Designing Under Pressure with Wacom When: Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, 3:00 PM –…

Here in the United States of America, congress is considering a bill that attempts to protect copyrights, but instead may damage the Internet beyond repair. To bring attention to this issue, many prominent websites are “going dark” on January…

Craig Grannell wrote an insightful and useful “Graphic Designer’s Guide To Interactive Design” at the Digital Arts website. He interviewed several influential design and publishing experts, to discover exactly what new skills a graphic designer needs in order to…

Today is the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, who was, as the Firesign Theatre put it, “the only President of the United States… who was never President of the United States.” Instead, when Franklin died in 1790, he was world-famous as…

Working with columns of tabbed text in QuarkXPress can be tedious, since there is no tool to select all the text in a “column”, and you can’t move more than one tab at a time. Also, there’s no way…

Quite Software’s Quite a Box of Tricks 1.8 ($204) is a plug-in for Acrobat that helps with common pre-press and website problems. For example, it can convert embedded images to CMYK or grayscale using ICC profiles, downsample images to…

The 2012 Salary Guide, from The Creative Group, lists the starting salary ranges for design and marketing positions in the United States and Toronto. Get a free copy of this 13-page guide at www.creativegroup.com/SalaryCenter. You can also use their…

Jamie Cross generously shared a video and a step-by-step tutorial that demonstrates how he cleverly created an animation inside an iPad app — using the slideshow feature in QuarkXPress’s App Studio! His tutorial has several helpful tips for getting…

One way to convert an existing font to a Web font (for embedding into a Web page) is to use FontSquirrel’s @font-face Generator. This free service will convert any font, so be sure you have the legal right to…

FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY!!! IF YOU LIKE IT, BUY IT PLEASE!!! QuarkXPress v8.5 Multilingual Combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output QuarkXPress is a powerful layout application that has an intuitive, versatile interface…

In yesterday’s press release from Quark, I noticed that they’ve won several important awards: ———————— QuarkXPress 9 Awards Since its launch QuarkXPress 9 has generated high recognition from industry influencers, including the following awards: Macworld UK Best Creative Design Software of…

I have seen many apps and helped a lot of customers to publish their (public and in-house) apps so far and I would have a hard time to choose the “nicest” or best-looking or most interesting app published so far.…

This free update for existing QuarkXPress 9 users adds 25+ new and enhanced features to make it easier than ever to create e-books and iPad apps. Please take time to read the accompanying documentation, ‘QuarkXPress 9.2 ReadMe’ and the…

It looks like Quark is listening to their users — today’s release of version 9.2 of QuarkXPress adds exactly the features that I’ve been hearing people asking for. First, you can create an ePUB file from scratch, rather than having…