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Jay Nelson - who has written 864 posts on Planet Quark.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay has a monthly Fonts column in Macworld, writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.
Why Use Picas?
Every major graphic design application lets you measure pages and page items in your choice of inches, centimeters, and picas. So why use picas? Believe it or not, if you design a page grid using whole and half picas, it adopts a beauty that’s perfectly suited to columns of text. For example, try setting your [...]
Continue reading...Trick to Close a Path in QuarkXPress
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
There is no explicit ‘join’ command for closing an open Bézier (Pen) path created in QuarkXPress, but it can be done. One way is to choose Item> Shape and hold down the Option/Alt key as you select the Freehand Box thumbnail in the submenu. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2010%2F08%2F18%2Ftrick-to-close-a-path-in-quarkxpress%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Trick+to+Close+a+Path+in+QuarkXPress’; addthis_pub = ”;
Continue reading...Shortcut to Delete a Word in QuarkXPress
Friday, August 13, 2010
When editing text in QuarkXPress, you can easily delete the word before your text cursor by pressing Command-Delete. To delete the word after your cursor, press Command-Shift-Delete. (Windows: use Ctrl-Delete and Ctrl-Shift-Delete.) What a timesaver! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2010%2F08%2F13%2Fshortcut-to-delete-a-word-in-quarkxpress%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Shortcut+to+Delete+a+Word+in+QuarkXPress’; addthis_pub = ”;
Continue reading...Full Resolution Preview Tips for QuarkXPress
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
In QuarkXPress, you can view pictures in full resolution by selecting them one at a time and either choosing Item> Preview Resolution> Full Resolution or right-clicking the picture and selecting Preview Resolution> Full Resolution from the contextual menu that appears. Unfortunately there is no way to create full-resolution previews for all of the pictures in [...]
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