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Convert Your Images to Icons

iConvert is a free Web-based application that converts images and icons to 32-, 8-, and 4-bit icons system icons for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Mac OSX .icns icons can be converted and used on Windows. Windows .ico icons and even .cur cursors can be converted to Mac-compatible icons. Both can be made into [...]

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Print Just a Selection in QuarkXPress 8.1

There’s a new, free XTension at  the “Quark Labs“ section of Quark’s website: Print Selection XT. This useful (dare I say necessary?) XTension lets users of QuarkXPress 8.1 output just a selection of a page, rather than the entire page. The selection can be made either by selecting specific items on a page, or by using [...]

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Great Certificate Borders

QuarkXPress has a number of good frames built in. Just select a text or picture box, then click the Frame tab in the Measurements Palette. 20 different frame designs appear: The fancier ones look best at one specific thickness — each one has a different preferred thickness that you’ll see as in bold or outlined [...]

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Double-click to Close a Polygon

In QuarkXPress 7 and earlier, when using the Bezier Text Box tool to create a complex polygon box, you can lose track of the beginning. To automatically close the polygon, just click on a different tool or double-click anywhere. In QuarkXPress 8, the Bezier Pen tool works completely differently — in fact, it works exactly [...]

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