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Quark’s FREE Flash eSeminar on August 24th: How To Make Your Web Site Live And Publish Updates

Quark’s ongoing series of free online seminars continues on August 24th with “How To Make Your Web Site Live And Publish Updates”. Here’s their description — and remember that you can also accomplish these feats in QuarkXPress 7, with Quark’s optional Interactive Designer XTension: ———————— Hopefully our Flash eSeminar series has enabled you to significantly [...]

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Control Fractions in QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress has a handy feature that automatically formats any arbitrary fraction (15/16, for example) as a true fraction. Just select the fraction and choose Style> Type Style> Make Fraction. Recently, James Felici wrote an excellent article on how to create true fractions (using any numbers) in both InDesign and QuarkXPress. Read it at www.creativepro.com/article/fractional-improvements In [...]

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Make Text Glow in QuarkXPress

A Planet Quark reader recently bemoaned the retiring of ALAP’s ShadowCaster XTension for QuarkXPress, and wanted to know how to create an outer glow using the Drop Shadow features built into QuarkXPress 7 and above. Well, here’s one way: Type “0” in the first field (Distance — or offset) Type 100% in the second field [...]

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HOW Magazine Sponsors Free Quark Webinar: Creating Flash and Interactive Design with QuarkXPress 8

On July 7th, HOW Magazine is sponsoring a free one-hour webinar presented by Quark: “No Code Required: Creating Flash and Interactive Design with QuarkXPress 8″. If you’ve been curious about how to use QuarkXPress to create useful animations and slide shows, tune in to this career-enhancing hour! Details from Quark are below. ———————— Join Quark [...]

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