• Quark Names Raymond Schiavone President & CEO

    Quark appoints XML and enterprise publishing software veteran to offices of President and CEO.

  • Drag Scale Type ala Illustrator

    Scaling type horizontally with the appropriate field on the Character or Control palettes is easy and precise, but not necessarily ideal when trying to scale to fit a particular space or when a more visual scaling is desired. Wouldn’t it be great if you could scale text width in InDesign just by dragging–like Illustrator can…

  • Drop Caps in InDesign

    Drop caps–those big, attention-getting glyphs that arrest the eye and bring it right into the beginning of your story–are a quick and simple thing to achieve in InDesign. The drop caps are controlled by settings made in the Paragraph palette. If it’s not open, bring it up with Mac: CMD-OPT-T, Win: CTRL-ALT-T or Menu: Window>Type…

  • Reselect

    Masking–selecting parts of an image to isolate changes–is a constant part of any Photoshop work. We select with the Marquee Tool, the Magic Wand Tool, quick mask mode, the Select Color Range command, and many, many other tools, commands, and methods. CMD+D/CTRL+D is the typical way of deselecting something or removing a mask, and it…

  • Quark Does Flash!

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

  • Tab Leaders in QuarkXPress

    Tab leaders–the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other–are easily obtainable in QuarkXPress. After setting up and formatting the list, bring up the Tabs pane of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box (Mac: CMD-SHIFT-T, Win: CTRL-SHIFT-T, or…