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Quark’s Free Flash eSeminar: Self-running Flash Presentations

Quark has been presenting and recording a series of free eSeminars about creating Flash assets with QuarkXPress 8 (and QuarkXPress 7 with Quark’s Interactive Designer XTension). One of the most popular sessions is “Self-running Flash Presentations”. Quark describes it this way: ———————— Would you like to create a compelling Flash presentation that continuously repeats its [...]

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Video Tutorials from Quark

Quark has posted several enlightening video tutorials at http://8.quark.com/learn_more.html, including: How to draw custom shapes with the newly redesigned Bézier pen toolset How to create picture popouts (how to crop your subject on certain sides of a box while letting the subject extend past the box on other sides) Design and output Flash directly from QuarkXPress [...]

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Flash in InDesign? Well, kinda. Flash in QuarkXPress? Oh yeah!

IT Enquirer  has an in-depth report that confirms my opinion of the Flash capabilities in QuarkXPress 7 and 8 vs. those in InDesign CS4. Here are some highlights from the executive summary: ———————— Indesign CS4 has Flash capabilities. QuarkXPress has had them for many years. The report examines the different approaches taken by both companies [...]

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Quark Releases Free Guide to Integrating QuarkXPress with Adobe Creative Suite

Quark has a free downloadable booklet about using QuarkXPress with Adobe’s Creative Suite, at www.8.quark.com/en/cs_integration. If you’re wondering about how far Quark has come in supporting (and surpassing) Adobe’s applications, this is a great place to start. And it’s not just a marketing piece — each section points out the limitations you’ll encounter when working [...]

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