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Rogue Preference Folder May Cause QuarkXPress 7 to Crash in Snow Leopard

I found this useful post by “MalloryKevin” at Apple’s Support Forums: ———————— To all those with Quark 7.5 crashes on Snow Leopard, I think I’ve found a solution. As the IT guy, I always experiment with new OSes and our current versions of software before I subject the rest of the company to it. So, [...]

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How to Remove Helvetica Neue

An ongoing annoyance with Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 is their requirement that the font Helvetica Neue be active. Because of this, font managers such as FontExplorer, Suitcase or FontAgent won’t let you activate any other version of Helvetica Neue — such as the one you need because it was used in a previous [...]

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Why No Jabberwocky Sets in QuarkXPress 8?

Have you wondered why Quark dropped the Jabberwocky Sets feature from QuarkXPress 8? (Explanation: in QuarkXPress 7 and earlier, Jabberwocky Sets were different languages that Quark could use to fill placeholder text. My favorite was Klingon.) It turns out that because the Jabberwocky feature was added a long time before operating systems began to understand [...]

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QuarkXPress 8.1.6 Update Improves Stability

Quark has released a free update to QuarkXPress 8 for Mac OS X and Windows. Here’s what they have to say about it: ———————— The free QuarkXPress 8.1.6 update further optimizes the stability and quality of QuarkXPress 8. The Windows version of this release also adds ‘Edit Original’ functionality. QuarkXPress 8 delivers an intuitive new [...]

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