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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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Video Tutorial: Backward Compatibility

QuarkXPress could always save documents down one version: 7 to 6, for example. In this very brief video, I show where to go to export your document for earlier versions of QuarkXPress. I also mention a secondary use for this export function: breaking Layouts away from a Project. This video was made possible by our [...]

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Video Tutorial: Fill a Dotted Line with a Picture

In this video tutorial, I show how to convert a dotted line into a series of picture boxes, and then fill them with either one or more pictures or gradients. You’re probably thinking: “How often do I need to convert a line to a picture box?” Probably not very often, but the technique exposes some [...]

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Video Tutorial: Delete Unused Colors in QuarkXPress 8

Many longtime users of QuarkXPress don’t know that since version 4 there’s been a feature that lets you delete all the colors that aren’t being used in the current Project. Here’s how to make use of it: Choose Edit> Colors From the Show popup menu, choose Colors Not Used Press Command-A (Windows: Ctrl-A) to select [...]

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