Planet Quark

Where’s the Rounded Rectangle Tool?

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 [...]

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Select Though Stacked Objects

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.  

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Use QuarkXPress Layouts for Revisions

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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Word Break and Indent Tips for InDesign & QuarkXPress

Sometimes, a word won’t hyphenate at the end of a line where YOU would like it to break. Rather than typing in a hyphen, which will flow along with the word if the line re-wraps, use a “discretionary hyphen”: an invisible character that tells your program to break and hyphenate a word at the end [...]

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