Late Thursday night it was brought to my attention that Matt Bargell, the First Place Winner in the recent Celebrate QuarkXPress Postcard Competition, is a contract designer for X-Ray Magazine, one of the companies furnishing prizes for the contest. UPDATED: Monday, 6 June 2005 Additionally, X-Ray‘s publisher and editor, is Cyndie Shaffstall, who also runs…

Press Release DENVER, Colo.–(QuarkVSInDesign.com)–June 1, 2005–Quark Inc. and Ascender Corporation today announced that new features in the forthcoming release of QuarkXPress 7 are based on technology provided by Ascender Corporation. A new partner in the QuarkAlliance, Ascender Corporation is providing the OpenType-enabled font technology in QuarkXPress 7 and giving QuarkXPress users the expanded typographic functionality…

Quark VS InDesign.com announces the winners of simultaneous design competitions celebrating InDesign and QuarkXPress. Announcing the Winners of the… On 11 April 2005 Quark VS InDesign.com, The Authority for News and Opinion on the War Between Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress® and Adobe® InDesign®, announced twin design contests in celebration of InDesign and QuarkXPress. In that…

I have to call my mother and tell her she wasn’t full of it. I just got an e-mail from a magazine editor complimenting my ability to write humorously in a how-to article to appear in her publication. Humor, she notes, is a very difficult writing style to pull off. As I told the editor…

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Newest peeks at QuarkXPress 7.0 features are unsexy, but powerful OpenType. Tell me more, big Quark. Customizeable user interface. Mmm. Transparency. Ooh, baby! JDF and XML. Oh. Well. Uh. Look at the time! I should probably get going. Peeling off more bulky layers of secrecy, first with a peek here then with a flourish of…