• Quick Mask Channel Selection

    When selecting large areas with the magic wand it’s common to leave a few pixels here and there throughout the areas unselected. Changing the Magic Wand color similarity tolerance is the first step, but it doesn’t always do the job. Sometimes easier and more effective is dropping into Quick Mask mode after using the Magic…

  • Meadows DesignMerge XTensions Now Available for QuarkXPress 7

    DesignMerge software suite to support newest version of QuarkXPress Press Release: Denver, CO–(Meadows Publishing Solutions)–August 15, 2006 – Quark Inc. announced today that Meadows Publishing Solutions, a leading developer of XTensions software for QuarkXPress, has released new XTensions software to support QuarkXPress 7. The DesignMerge XTensions module is now available to be compatible with QuarkXPress…

  • QuarkXPress 7: More Thumbs-Ups

    Two more reviewers weigh in with postive marks on Quark’s improvements Two recent XPress 7 reviews have caught our eye here at QVI; one pubished in Quark’s back yard and one from across the pond. Both give XPress 7 high marks and credit for working to close the InDesign-XPress gap.

  • FeedWordPress: Content Theft with Consequences

    Today, while searching for a different WordPress plugin, I ran across this troubling post from John TP from last week: My blog posts have been reblogged a few times in Splogs in the past and that too directly from my feeds. After switching to partial feeds, I never faced this problem until recently a few…

  • QuarkXPress 7: Thumbs Up In The UK

    Review gives V7 thumbs up for powerful features A review of QuarkXPress 7 has just been published in The Independent, a major daily newspaper in the UK; it comes down strongly in favor of the newest version of Quark’s flagship. Cited with praise are such items as additional new features without a multiplicity of new…

  • Markzware Releases ID2Q7 Conversion Plugin

    New plugin offers one-click conversion of InDesign files to XPress 7–but only for non-Intel Mac users at present. Markzware, maker of more useful preflight and plugin software for electronic layout than you can shake a stick at, has announced the release of ID2Q7 which is, a far as we can determine, the first and only…