2006 October

Reselect

Masking—selecting parts of an image to iso­late changes—is a con­stant part of any Photoshop work…

Quark Does Flash!

New Quark Interactive Designer adds Adobe Flash SWF out­put and mul­ti­me­dia tools to QuarkXPress 7.

On the Fly Layer Thumbnail Resizing

Photoshop pros dif­fer in their choice of thumb­nail size on the Layers, Paths, and Channels palettes. Some usu­ally run with small thumb­nails, some with none, oth­ers with medium or large…

Press-sense announces Agreement with XMPie

PRESS RELEASE
uDI­RECT To Be Integrated And Packaged With Press-Sense iWAY
CHICAGO — October 19, 2006 — At the 2006 Graph Expo and Converting Expo, Press-sense announced an agree­ment with XMPie to inte­grate XMPie® uDi­rect™ Designer soft­ware and XMPie’s unique VDP com­po­si­tion tech­nol­ogy into the Press-sense iWay web-to-print solution…

Adobe Extends Video Software Offerings with Acquisition of Serious Magic

PRESS RELEASE
Future Adobe Products Set to Gain from Integration of Award-Winning Video Technologies
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct…

Appearance Drag Apply

Want to quickly copy an appear­ance, no mat­ter how com­pli­cated, from one object to oth­ers?
Select the source object, the one with the appear­ance you want to share with the rest…

The Holy Grail of Page Layout

Yup, call­ing some­thing the Holy Grail is pretty bold–and overused. In this case, how­ever, it really does apply.

Yesterday I released Page Control, a plug-in for InDesign CS and InDesign CS2, devel­oped in coop­er­a­tion with DTP Tools. Page Control answers a … »

Enfocus Products to Support Adobe Acrobat 8

PRESS RELEASE
Enfocus, an Artwork Systems brand, is ready­ing its Adobe Acrobat 8 com­pat­i­ble ver­sions of its full prod­uct line, includ­ing the industry’s most pop­u­lar PDF plug-in, PitStop Professional…

DTP Tools and Pariah S. Burke Announce Page Control 1.0 Plug–in for Adobe InDesign

What do you get when a design & pub­lish­ing work­flow guru teams up with a devel­oper with a his­tory of build­ing pro­duc­tiv­ity enhanc­ing InDesign plug-ins? You get the Holy Grail of layout.

Quark launches QuarkXPress Server 7

PRESS RELEASE
Quark takes dynamic pub­lish­ing to a new level with on-demand cre­ative com­mu­ni­ca­tions
Chicago (Graph Expo) — October 16, 2006 — Quark Inc…

XChange International announce immediate availability of Quark Print Collection for QuarkXPress 7

PRESS RELEASE
London, UK — 16 October 2006 — XChange International, the source for extended tech­nol­ogy world­wide, are pleased to announce the avail­abil­ity of the new Quark Print Collection(QPC), a com­pre­hen­sive set of pre­press tools for organ­i­sa­tions involved in the print pro­duc­tion process…

Guides Help Find the Center of an Image

Once in a while it’s use­ful to find the cen­ter of a Photoshop document—either the hor­i­zon­tal cen­ter, ver­ti­cal cen­ter, or both…

Reset Preferences

InDesign crash­ing? Menus and palettes blank or out of sorts? Other strange flut­ter­ings from the but­ter­fly? You might have cor­rupted pref­er­ences. Reset them…

Markzware Announces InDesign to QuarkXPress 7 (ID2Q) for Windows

PRESS RELEASE
Markzware, devel­oper of pre­flight­ing, data extrac­tion and con­ver­sion soft­ware, is pleased to announce the imme­di­ate avail­abil­ity of the con­ver­sion util­ity ID2Q7, InDesign To QuarkXPress for ver­sions 6…

Phantom Missing Fonts

If you’ve ever been greeted by the Missing Fonts dia­log upon open­ing a QuarkXPress doc­u­ment and been unable to find where the miss­ing fonts are used, this tip is for you…

300+ Free Halloween Fonts

In honor of this month’s annual fright night, Quark VS InDesign​.com scoured the globe, peek­ing into every dark cor­ner, every creepy closet, and under the bed for free fonts–living or dead. We found over 300 Halloween and Halloween-inspired fonts–and they’re all free!

New QuarkXPress 7.02 Adds License Transfer, Expanded Language Support, Bug Fixes

New update addresses many bugs, adds hyphen­ta­tion and spell-check for 10 more lan­guages, enables license trans­fer with­out call­ing Quark Technical Support, and restores the abil­ity to use mul­ti­ple ver­sions of XPress on one computer.

WoodWing Introduces Smart Newspaper

PRESS RELEASE
A Special Suite of Solutions for the Newspaper Market
DETROIT — 9 October 2006— WoodWing USA has announced a new bun­dled suite of its edi­to­r­ial solu­tions aimed specif­i­cally at the news­pa­per industry…

Share Swatches Between CS2 Applications Without Recreating Them

In Creative Suite 2 Adobe intro­duced the Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ASE) file for­mat. With it, you can cre­ate cus­tom swatch col­ors in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop, and import them into the rest with­out hav­ing to man­u­ally recre­ate them. Among sev­eral ram­i­fi­ca­tions, that means for print out­put pros fewer instances of the com­mon prob­lem of the […]

Top 5 Pain Points Tripping Up Your QuarkXPress to InDesign Game

In L.A. they’re throw­ing “Innie” par­ties; flash­ing an InDesign CS2 CD-ROM is required to part the vel­vet ropes at SoHo night­clubs, and; in Dallas, even the man­li­est of design­ing men is sport­ing a but­ter­fly tat­too. Learning InDesign is hip. It’s hap­pen­ing. It’s now. InDesign is the new black.

Quark To Launch New Mystery Product

At MacExpo London Quark will add to its prod­uct line with an inno­v­a­tive new product.

Embed Fonts in Save Page As EPS

One fea­ture of QuarkXPress around since the early days is Save Page As EPS, located on the File menu. The major draw­back to using this fea­ture, though, has always been that fonts aren’t embedded…

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