Archives: October 2006

Drop caps–those big, attention-getting glyphs that arrest the eye and bring it right into the beginning of your story–are a quick and simple thing to achieve in InDesign…

Masking—selecting parts of an image to isolate changes—is a constant part of any Photoshop work…

New Quark Interactive Designer adds Adobe Flash SWF output and multimedia tools to QuarkXPress 7.

Tab leaders–the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other–are easily obtainable in QuarkXPress…

Photoshop pros differ in their choice of thumbnail size on the Layers, Paths, and Channels palettes. Some usually run with small thumbnails, some with none, others with medium or large…

PRESS RELEASE
uDIRECT To Be Integrated And Packaged With Press-Sense iWAY
CHICAGO — October 19, 2006 — At the 2006 Graph Expo and Converting Expo, Press-sense announced an agreement with XMPie to integrate XMPie(R) uDirect(TM) Designer software and XMPie’s unique VDP composition technology into the Press-sense iWay web-to-print solution…

PRESS RELEASE
Future Adobe Products Set to Gain from Integration of Award-Winning Video Technologies
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct…

Want to quickly copy an appearance, no matter how complicated, from one object to others?
Select the source object, the one with the appearance you want to share with the rest…

PRESS RELEASE
Enfocus, an Artwork Systems brand, is readying its Adobe Acrobat 8 compatible versions of its full product line, including the industry’s most popular PDF plug-in, PitStop Professional…

Tab leaders are the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other, both leading the eye and filling in what would otherwise be an awkward trapped space…

What do you get when a design & publishing workflow guru teams up with a developer with a history of building productivity enhancing InDesign plug-ins? You get the Holy Grail of layout.

PRESS RELEASE
Quark takes dynamic publishing to a new level with on-demand creative communications
Chicago (Graph Expo) - October 16, 2006 - Quark Inc…

PRESS RELEASE
London, UK — 16 October 2006 — XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the availability of the new Quark Print Collection(QPC), a comprehensive set of prepress tools for organisations involved in the print production process…

Once in a while it’s useful to find the center of a Photoshop document—either the horizontal center, vertical center, or both…

InDesign crashing? Menus and palettes blank or out of sorts? Other strange flutterings from the butterfly? You might have corrupted preferences. Reset them…

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Markzware, developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the conversion utility ID2Q7, InDesign To QuarkXPress for versions 6…

Flowing text around boxes is a concept common to both InDesign and Quark, but with two names and two ways of looking at defaults, layout artists will find themselves “thinking differently” when crossing platforms.

If you’ve ever been greeted by the Missing Fonts dialog upon opening a QuarkXPress document and been unable to find where the missing fonts are used, this tip is for you…

In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Quark VS InDesign.com scoured the globe, peeking into every dark corner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free fonts—living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts—and they’re all free!

New update addresses many bugs, adds hyphentation and spell-check for 10 more languages, enables license transfer without calling Quark Technical Support, and restores the ability to use multiple versions of XPress on one computer.