• InDesign Conference Master Class 2006

    Join me along with a who’s-who of InDesign gurus including, David Blatner, Diane Burns, Sandee Cohen, Anne-Marie Concepcion, Chris Converse, Kacey Crouch, Rufus Deuchler, Olav Martin Kvern, Deke McClelland, Claudia McCue, Branislav Milic, Nichael Ninness, Thomas Phinney, Dave Saunders, Peter Truskier, Russell Viers, Steve Werner, and Brian Wood for the InDesign Conference Master Class in…

  • 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.