Planet Quark

To avoid having your scanner pick up text from the back side of the paper you’re scanning (this is called ghosting, or show-through), place a sheet of black paper behind the paper you’re scanning.

The black paper absorbs the light that would otherwise shine through the paper.

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When editing text in QuarkXPress, you can easily delete the word before your text cursor by pressing Command-Delete. To delete the word after your cursor, press Command-Shift-Delete. (Windows: use Ctrl-Delete and Ctrl-Shift-Delete.)

What a timesaver!

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Here’s a quick way for Mac users to save an image from a website, and determine its exact dimensions: just drag it directly from the Web page onto the Preview application icon in your Dock.

Then, choose Tools> Get Info (Command-I) to see its size, file format, etc.

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In QuarkXPress, you can view pictures in full resolution by selecting them one at a time and either choosing Item> Preview Resolution> Full Resolution or right-clicking the picture and selecting Preview Resolution> Full Resolution from the contextual menu that appears.

Unfortunately there is no way to create full-resolution previews for all of the pictures in a document at one time. There is, however, a way to turn them all off to increase performance: View> Hide Full Res Previews.

Another performance tip: if you open a lot of QuarkXPress documents, or have documents that have lots of pictures, you may want to increase the maximum size of the Cache folder in QuarkXPress’s Preferences.

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