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Mele Kalikimaka from Planet Quark!

From Wikipedia: “Mele Kalikimaka” is a Christmas song sung as a warm greeting from Hawaii. The song takes its title from the phrase “Mele Kalikimaka”, derived from the Hawaiian pronunciation of “Merry Christmas”. Since Hawaiian does not have all English phonemes, in particular the “R” and “S”, “Merry Christmas” becomes “Mele Kalikimaka” (note the substitution [...]

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HOW Sweet It Was! Thoughts from a design conference — part 3

I don’t know when Quark began making it difficult (if not impossible) for schools to teach QuarkXPress. I do know that Quark fixed that problem a year or two ago, as they began providing QuarkXPress to schools for a very low price, and began providing packages of training materials to the teachers. Go, Quark! Why [...]

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HOW Sweet It Was! Thoughts from a design conference — part 2

As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m just back from the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas, where I presented a three-hour session on “QuarkXPress Integration with Adobe’s Creative Suite.” And I’m really mad at Quark’s marketing department. Not necessarily Quark’s CURRENT marketing department, but whoever limited their budget over the past seven years. [...]

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HOW Sweet It Was! Thoughts from a design conference — part 1

I’m just back from the HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas, where I presented a three-hour pre-conference session (attendees paid extra money to attend) on “QuarkXPress Integration with Adobe’s Creative Suite.” Many people wanted details about how specific features worked, but many others were more interested in gathering evidence to bring back to their companies [...]

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