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Jay Nelson - who has written 1454 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 writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
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www.FontsInUse.com is a helpful archive of typography at work in the real world, indexed by typeface, format (media), and industry. You can contribute your font sightings, or just browse the many examples.
Continue reading...Where’s the Rounded Rectangle Tool?
Monday, May 20, 2013
To simplify the Tools palette in QuarkXPress 8 and above, Quark rethought how the tools work together. So, for the “box shapes” they simplified your choices to a rectangle, circle and starburst. To make a rounded-corner rectangle, create a rectangle and then change its corner style in the Measurements palette. Try this: create a rectangle [...]
Continue reading...Select Though Stacked Objects
Thursday, May 16, 2013
To select an object that is beneath another object in a stack of objects, do this: In InDesign: Command-click the stack. Each Command-click will select the next item down. In QuarkXPress: use Command-Option-Shift instead.
Continue reading...Use QuarkXPress Layouts for Revisions
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
One powerful use of the Layout feature in QuarkXPress is to save previous revisions of a document. For example, when you want to revise a Project that contains just one Layout (as most Projects do), rather than duplicating the entire Project, just duplicate the Layout. That way, the original version of your Layout is kept [...]
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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