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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 user-defined typing errors.

AutoCorrectXT fixes spelling errors in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Norwegian. (An Arabic version is available for $95.)

The newest version can automatically apply bullets and numbering to paragraphs, and adds a Greek dictionary.

For more information or to download a free trial version of AutoCorrectXT, see the AthenaSoft website.

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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 today’s use of the iPad, the opportunities tablets (and especially the iPad being the spearhead of the tablet success) offer hardly anybody imagined and are vast:
Surfing device, reading device, bookstore, game console, channel for corporate marketing communications, management information system, dashboard, point of sale, point of purchase, replacement for laptops and even the Desktop in some cases and much more.

Therefore it feels as if it has been on the market much longer than for just two years.

If you are in publishing, professional or corporate, external or internal, and you are not doing iPad publishing yet, now is the time to start evaluating possibilities and opportunities.

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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 preferences (QuarkXPress> Preferences> PDF) to “Create PostScript File for Later Distilling“.

2. Optionally, enable the “Use Watched Folder” checkbox. This will send your PostScript files to a folder you’ve set up as a “hot” or “watched” folder in Distiller. Click the OK button.

3. Choose File> Export Layout as PDF

QuarkXPress will then create a PostScript file of your Layout and deposit it into whatever location you’ve told it to.

Here’s an additional tip for that Preferences dialog:

The “Default Layout” popup menu determines the naming convention Quark uses for your PDF. If you don’t like the default of “Project_Layout”, you can change it!

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I just received this invitation, and thought I’d share it with the Planet Quark community!

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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

Sponsored by: QuarkXPress

The competition for design work is fierce. Your ability to create and design iPad apps for yourself, your company, and your clients allows you to distinguish yourself from the competition.

Equip yourself with the easy-to-learn, cutting-edge solution for iPad app publishing so you can generate more revenue for your company and clients, which means more money and contracts for you!

Join Dan Logan, Product Manager of QuarkXPress as he walks you through what you’ll need to get started building your app, best practices in digital design, and iPad app creation.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Seating for all live DesignCasts is limited to 1,000 people! Registration does not guarantee you’ll get in, so sign in early the day of the event. If you cannot attend live, you will be able to watch a recording of the event so register now!

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