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Scanning and Photoshop CS6

If you’re having trouble using your scanner with Photoshop CS6, you’re definitely not alone! Have a look at my story at Macworld: “Get your scanner to work with Photoshop CS6“. The problem involves TWAIN, 32-bit code, and the march of time. The solution involves thinking a little bit outside the box. ;-)

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FontNuke Fixes Font Problems

FontNuke (free) is a valuable timesaving utility for Mac OS X that removes corrupt system font caches, Adobe font caches (*.lst), QuarkXPress font caches, and Microsoft Office font caches. Use it when your applications begin to crash and fonts seem to be involved. FontNuke requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, and is compatible with [...]

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Suitcase Fusion 4 & QuarkXPress

Extensis Suitcase Fusion 4 has an issue with QuarkXPress 7, 8 and 9 that causes QuarkXPress to always ask you to save files when the auto-activation XTension is enabled, even if the document has not been changed. In other words, if you have the Suitcase Fusion XTension enabled, every time you open a QuarkXPress document, [...]

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QuarkXPress 9.2.1 Update for Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 Now Available

Great news for Lion users: Quark’s update to version 9.2.1 of QuarkXPress for Mac OS X is said to fix the “disappearing icons” problem that affects Mac users who upgraded to Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. It is recommended for all Mac users (there is no equivalent Windows update). Quark reminds us that QuarkXPress 9 [...]

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