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Use “Native Transparency” When Exporting for Graphics

When exporting a page (or part of a page) from QuarkXPress for use in App Studio or any other digital publishing program, it’s best to export in PDF format with “Native Transparency” turned ON (the default is OFF). Then open that PDF in Photoshop or another image editor and save it in PNG format.

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How To Combine Book Chapters To Export One PDF or E-book

This question came up today: “I created a book in QuarkXPress, using separate documents for each chapter and connecting them with the Book feature. I created a Table of Contents for the whole book and built that TOC in the Master Chapter. How can I export a whole book as one PDF and have a TOC that [...]

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QuarkXPress 9 Bug: When Fonts Are Not Embedded in PDFs

Quark’s Web page of known issues in QuarkXPress 9 include this one: If you export a PDF without embedding the fonts (File> Export> Layout as PDF> Options button> Fonts), then import that PDF and run Collect for Output (File menu) with Fonts checked, the fonts that are not embedded in the PDF are not collected. [...]

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How to Save a QuarkXPress Project Down to a Previous Version

Each time a new version of QuarkXPress is released, I receive a bunch of questions about how to save a QuarkXPress document so that it may be read by a previous version of QuarkXPress. With the recent release of QuarkXPress 9, this question is high in the minds of many. As with all versions of [...]

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