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QuarkXPress More Efficient in the Background Than InDesign

I run a lot of programs at the same time. Perhaps you do, too. This morning, I was curious to see how much of my Mac’s processor was being used by the applications that I had launched earlier but were now idling in the background. Specifically, I wondered about QuarkXPress 8 and InDesign CS5. (Yes, [...]

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QuarkXPress 8: Three Times Faster

Andreas Pfeiffer is a respected independent analyst in the publishing industry, and his comments in this video recorded by Quark is most enlightening: QuarkXPress 8 is almost three times faster than the previous releases. A three-times increase in productivity is very unusual. His comments relate to real-world use, on common projects (not just processing speed [...]

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Ben Franklin, printer

Last Sunday was the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, who, as the Firesign Theatre put it, was “the only President of the United States… who was never President of the United States.” Instead, when Franklin died in 1790, he was world-famous as a scientist and a diplomat, but he named himself in his will as simply [...]

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A New Year’s Resolution

As I look forward to 2010, I’m thinking about things I can do to make me more effective — and profitable. For those of us who are veteran QuarkXPress users, one thing that really should be on the list is to learn its new features. For me, that means picking up the three tricks for [...]

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