• 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. While you could Select All, get the dimensions from the Info palette, then divide them in half, there’s an easier way (one that works more reliably after a long day than your ability to…

  • 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. Just press CMD+OPT+SHIFT (CTRL+ALT+SHIFT) while launching InDesign (or Photoshop, Illustrator, ImageReady, GoLive, or InCopy). Adobe says that’s easy. Trust me, it’s easier to say than do. The problem is, with a decent…

  • 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.x through 7 for Windows. ID2Q7 is an XTension that easily and effectively converts Adobe InDesign files (v1.5 through 4.x) into QuarkXPress v6.x or 7 documents with…

  • Text: Wrap, Runaround, and the Question of Defaults

    Flowing text around boxes is a concept common to both InDesign and Quark, but with two names and two ways of looking at defaults, layout artists will find themselves “thinking differently” when crossing platforms.

  • 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. Along with the obvious places XPress looks for fonts are three not so obvious places: EPS files, PDF files, and style sheets. Both Encapulated…

  • 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!