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The Faces of Quark: Joshua Duhl on Dynamic Publishing

It’s no secret that Quark in recent years has been expanding dramatically into the world of enterprise publishing. (Boy, I dislike that word: “enterprise”. The only place I want to hear Enterprise is in a Star Trek franchise. Come to think of it, I don’t like “franchise” either. The creative part of my brain attaches [...]

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Everything you ever wanted to know about “Box Tools” in the Scripts menu

It looks like a scroll, it’s in the menu bar, and you’ve probably never used it. If you use a Macintosh, it’s about time you realize how many hours of work this feature will save you — and could have been saving you since QuarkXPress 4. You’re gonna love this once you realize all the [...]

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Quark Announces Version 8 of Everything: Quark Publishing System 8, QuarkCopyDesk8 and QuarkXPress Server 8

It seems that Adobe is not the only company rolling out new versions of Big Software. Today, Quark announced Quark Publishing System 8, QuarkCopyDesk8, and QuarkXPress Server 8, all of which work seamlessly with their recently-released QuarkXPress 8. What are these things? Simply put, they’re the other pieces of Quark’s publishing workflow system. (Apologies to [...]

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From Synchronized Text to Shared Content

And a somewhat unconventional approach to using Shared Content The Shared Content palette appeared in QuarkXPress 6 as the Synchronized Text palette. If you’ve never used it before, I’d like to explain what it can do for you, and what you may have never thought it can do for you. Let’s start with the basics… [...]

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