Text to Box: One Of Quark's Little-Known Gems
A simple way to get round the need to send a font along offers flexible design possiblities
Drop Caps in QuarkXPress
Styling drop caps for your introductory paragraphs using QuarkXPress is straightforward; the trick here is knowing where to find the place where it’s speficied. As it happens, it’s in the …
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 …
Tab Leaders in QuarkXPress
Tab leaders–the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other–are easily obtainable …
The Holy Grail of Page Layout
Yup, calling something the Holy Grail is pretty bold–and overused. In this case, however, it really does apply. Yesterday I released Page Control, a plug-in for InDesign CS and InDesign CS2, developed in …
Tab Leaders in InDesign
Tab leaders are the lines of filler characters in printed lists and tables of contents that connect the aligned content on one side to the aligned content on the other, …
Text: Wrap, Runaround, and the Question of Defaults
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.
Resize Box and Contents Proportionately
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 …
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 …
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 …