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Adobe ignores the moral of its own story at its peril

by Adam Banks on 3 May 2011 in Analysis
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By Ian Betteridge Once upon a time, there was a software company called Quark. Quark had, through a combination of smart engineering and aggressive business practices, become the dominant player in the nascent field of desktop publishing. If you were a pro publisher, you used QuarkXPress. The only real alternative – Adobe’s PageMaker – was [...]

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Quark takes QuarkXPress 9 for a test drive ahead of full launch

by Kenny Hemphill on 6 April 2011 in News

QuarkXPress 9 TestDrive, a 30-day demo version of the latest version of Quark’s flagship application is now available for download, three weeks before the full version goes on sale.

Quark says that the Test Drive version is fully functional for 30 days, including the ability to save files and print documents. It can also open documents from QuarkXPress 3 and later.

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QuarkXPress 8.5 adds docx support

by Simon Aughton on 17 November 2010 in News
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Quark has added support for .docx Microsoft Word files, plus new Pantone libraries, in an update to QuarkXPress 8.

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Line ‘em up: the secret to designing with grids

by Keith Martin on 6 August 2010 in Design for Print
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Page layout is chiefly about how objects on a page interact with each other, which is why grids play such a vital role is design. Here’s how they work… Page design is seen as a bit of a black art by so many people. It’s true that it isn’t a doddle, but there are certain [...]

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10 reasons why you should start using iWork.com

by Tom Gorham on 18 May 2010 in iWork

iWork.com has been much maligned and mostly shunned since its launch last year, but despite its flaws, this free online service has a lot to offer. Let’s say that you’re asked to name Apple’s least-impressive software over the past 10 years. After considering the anaemic .Mac Backup application or pondering the disappointment of the Mac [...]

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Work smarter not harder by using your DTP’s style sheets

by Keith Martin on 18 May 2010 in Design for Print

Take the mind-numbing drudgery out of complex text styling jobs by preparing style sheets for your layouts. Today, I’m going to talk about style sheets in print design. This may not sound particularly exciting, but it will make your work a lot easier and enable you to finish the job in hand far quicker. If [...]

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