• QuarkXPress 7 Beta 1 to Expire; Beta 2 to be Posted

    As the hard limit for the first XPress public beta approaches, Quark announces beta 2 Announced to the current members of the QuarkXPress Public Beta test program today, a reminder that XPress Public Beta 1 is scheduled to auto-expire at the end of this month, 31 March 2006. The Public Beta program is to continue,…

  • Quark’s Logo 2006–Something Is In Motion

    Six months after debuting their first major branding change in 15 years, Quark does it again with another logo–this one they did themselves.

  • Extensis Releases Fusion 12.0.1 Update

    Update fixes most recent reported problems This week Extensis, Inc. released an update to its Suitcase Fusion font manager. This update fixes problems reported by users with the most recent version, v 12.0. The update moves the version number to 12.0.1. The installer, weighing in at about 56 MB, fixes the following major problems amongst…

  • ALAP’s InDesign Plug-Ins Discontinued, PowerXChange Offers Consolation Prize

    InBooklet, InEffects, and other ALAP plug-ins for InDesign discontinued; replaced with “similarly featured” QuarkXPress xtensions. by Samuel John Klein and Pariah S. Burke Once, not long ago, there was a little software company with an interesting name: A Lowly Apprentice Production, Inc., or ALAP. ALAP didn’t make software that stood on its own. Rather, it…

  • Markzware’s Q2ID Plug-In Converts Quark 5 and 6 Files to InDesign

    Q2ID brings QuarkXPress 5.x and 6.x document conversion to InDesign. Q2ID (QuarkXPress to InDesign document conversion) publisher: Markzware platform: price: $199 usd rating: More and more lately I find myself reviewing products that are powerful but simple, applications or plug-ins that answer broad sweeping needs unassumingly. Markzware’s Q2ID is one such plug-in. And, like all…

  • Off to Texas Again

    I have to say, I really like Texas. Though I’ve never lived there, and my opinion might be different if I had, I’ve visited Texas more than a handful of times now. Each time has been a wonderful experience, whether it was a fly-in/fly-out one-day consultation in Dallas, two weeks on-site in Fort Worth, or…