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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.

You can resize both a box and its content proportionally by holding down CTRL-SHIFT-OPT and either using the greater-than and less-than keys (to size the box down and up). The content will dynamically and proportionally scale in response to the change of the size of the box, and if you wait a moment until the…

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…

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.

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…

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…

New update applies many fixes, solves PS canvas-change scaling problem Recently announced by Adobe, and which by now should be showing up in the Updates window of your InDesignCS2, Adobe has posted new updates which will bring your versions of InDesign up to 4.0.4.

The beta is a free download, runs on Intel Macs In an emailing to XPress public beta program participants today, Quark has announced that QuarkXPress 7.01 Universal Binary public beta 2 has been released and is available for download now. The software, designed to run natively on the new Intel-based Macintoshes, is prerelease software and…

Updates address a host of issues, include earlier updates Adobe has announced the availablilty of updates for two CS2 applications, InDesign CS2 and InCopy CS2. They can be downloaded immediately.

Useful plug-in provides link palette that’s better than the InD Links palette on steroids The Slendro PictureLinks Palette (click to enlarge). The InDesign Links palette does a fair, basic job of categorizing your linked pictures and graphics. The information on it is, however, well … skimpy, and one has to know what one’s files contain…