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AppleScript & Automator: Professional Tools for QuarkXPress Users

One reason many professionals use Macs is because Apple’s built-in AppleScript can automate almost any task, in most applications. QuarkXPress has been scriptable almost since the beginning, and the Mac version even includes a handful of helpful scripts — just look under the script-shaped menu at the far right end of Quark’s menus. The best [...]

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Report Helps Choose a Publishing System

If you’re considering adopting a new publishing system, you may want to invest in the IT Enquirer’s functionality report on eight of the most popular systems: WoodWing Enterprise 6, vjoon K4, Quark Publishing and Dynamic Publishing System, Easypress Atomik Dynamic and Quantum Publisher, NUQLEO, and censhare.  The report contains a functionality Matrix, a Completeness of [...]

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Find First and Find Next

When using QuarkXPress’ Find/Change feature, if you hold down the Option key, the Find Next button turns into a Find First button. When you click Find First, the search starts at the beginning of the story or Layout instead of at the current text insertion point. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planetquark.com%2F2009%2F05%2F08%2Ffind-first-and-find-next%2F'; addthis_title = 'Find+First+and+Find+Next'; addthis_pub = '';

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Badia FullMeasure: Extreme Efficiency Enhancements for QuarkXPress 8, 7, 6, 5 and 4

Badia FullMeasure adds a new Measurements palette to QuarkXPress 4/5/6/7/8 that provides quick access to almost every control that is otherwise hidden in a QuarkXPress dialog box, plus a lot more.  It adds new timesaving abilities, such as: Find boxes by more than 50 attributes, such as background color, dimensions, suppression, opacity, frame style, empty [...]

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