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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | June 6, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
Converting QuarkXPress Legacy Files with the QuarkXPress Document Converter
Even if you are up-to-date and working on QuarkXPress 2018, you may find yourself with fairly old files in your archive that you want to open but can’t because the file format is no longer supported. To help QuarkXPress users in this situation, […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | May 30, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
Top 10 Reasons to Switch to QuarkXPress
It’s officially the best time to ditch your old graphic design software and make the switch to QuarkXPress. Just in case you’re not convinced, we’ve broken down the top ten reasons why. Download the Top 10 Reasons to Switch to QuarkXPress Our new […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | May 27, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
Tips and Tricks: How to Delete Preferences
When QuarkXPress doesn’t behave the way you expect it to, in most cases it helps to delete the preferences. Deleting preferences and restarting QuarkXPress creates new, fresh preferences. The only thing you will lose is any customization you have done to preferences. Existing […]
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Graphic Design | May 22, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
Adobe to Sue Users of Legacy Versions of Creative Cloud?
If you’re an Adobe customer you may have recently received a notice letting you know that using old Adobe Creative Cloud software could get you sued. According to reports, “This is because Adobe claims they’ve discontinued certain older versions of Creative Cloud applications […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | May 21, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
QuarkXPress 2019 Feature Preview: Flex Layouts
The next major release of QuarkXPress will be available early this summer! As we get ready to launch, we’ll showcase previews of all the exciting new features, including groundbreaking new Flex Layouts for Web design, reimagined tables, and new productivity boosting design features. […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | April 25, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
QuarkXPress 2019 is Coming this Summer!
Excitement is building here at Quark as we get ready for the official availability of QuarkXPress 2019, the new version of QuarkXPress. Version 2019 will ship early this summer and we just announced details about what designers can expect! From the groundbreaking new […]
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Graphic Design | April 17, 2019 | Matthias Guenther
QuarkXPress 2019 Sneak Peek: Spring-Loaded Cursor
QuarkXPress 2019 is coming this summer! As you may know, we release a new version of QuarkXPress every year. For each release we develop new and innovative features that will benefit QuarkXPress users. Many of the new features we develop each year come […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | March 25, 2019 | Quark Blog Team
QuarkXPress Customer of the Month: Tim Rock of Marine Images
Tim Rock, of Marine Images, is an award-winning publisher, author and photographer who specializes in the marine world. He travels the globe in search of underwater, aerial, cultural, marine and travel-related images. Throughout his travels, Tim captures breathtaking moments in time, many of […]
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Graphic Design | March 22, 2019 | Matthias Guenther
QuarkXPress 2019 Sneak Peek: 9-Point Reference Grid
QuarkXPress 2019 is coming this summer! We are so excited about the new version that we want to start talking about it now! As you may know, we release a new version of QuarkXPress every year. For each release we develop new and […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | March 20, 2019 | Gavin Drake
Why QuarkXPress Advantage is the New Way to Upgrade
It seems there is a subscription for everything, from computer software and online storage for home security cameras to ink for our printers. Of course, this isn’t a new approach. We’ve subscribed to services for many years, from cable TV to phone plans. […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | March 20, 2019 | Matthias Guenther
Tool Tip of the Month – Bézier Illustration Tools
QuarkXPress lets you create gorgeous illustrations using industry-standard Bézier Pen tools — without leaving your layout. The robust vector tools work like the Pen tools in other popular drawing applications such as Illustrator. So if you think you need to turn to illustration […]
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Digital Publishing / Graphic Design | February 8, 2019 | Chris Hickey
How Design, Printing and Publishing Influenced My Leadership Outlook
Now that I’m in full swing here at Quark, I want to share more details about who I am and where I come from. It’s hard to capture more than recent history in a corporate bio! One thing I’m particularly proud of is […]
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Content Automation / Graphic Design / Sales Enablement | January 29, 2019 | Chris Hickey
Introducing Quark’s New CEO, Chris Hickey
Hello! I’m Chris Hickey and I’m the new CEO of Quark Software. I’m thrilled to be here. While I’m making my way to each of Quark’s global offices, I thought I’d take a moment to share why I’m so excited about my new […]
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Graphic Design | April 16, 2018 | Matthias Guenther
How to Open Older QuarkXPress Documents
How do you open QuarkXPress documents that you have maybe created ten years ago or even in the early 90’s? If you are using QuarkXPress 9 (or below) that’s not an issue, as QuarkXPress 9 opens all previous files from version 3 to […]
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Graphic Design | March 21, 2018 | Matthias Guenther
The Non-Rental Suite for Creative Pros
Many people have asked me whether there are high-quality tools available for creative professionals other than the rental suite of Adobe Creative Cloud. I leave it up to you whether you prefer renting a software suite or whether you like to keep/own your […]
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Graphic Design | March 2, 2018 | Matthias Guenther
QuarkXPress is first to create a single PDF compliant to PDF/A and PDF/X-4
When creating PDF often two requirements seem to clash: The PDF needs to be printed (so ideally PDF/X-4) The PDF needs to be accessible (tagged) and to be archived (so PDF/A) Why not create two PDF files (one /A and one /X)? Sure, […]
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Graphic Design | March 1, 2018 | Matthias Guenther
Webinar Showing Major Features of QuarkXPress 2018
Quark today announced the upcoming Version 2018, the next major version of QuarkXPress. In this 39 min long webinar, I am showing the highlights of QuarkXPress 2018, like Color Fonts, JavaScript based on V8, Hyphenation Strictness, the new PDF Engine, PDF/A export, creating […]
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Graphic Design | February 24, 2018 | Sarah Rector
Color Fonts – The Next Big Thing in Typography
Since the introduction of OpenType fonts, there hasn’t been a big change in typography. Until color fonts emerged. Their birth probably was in 2010 when Apple added colorful emoji, which we all have been using since on our mobile. However – due to […]
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Graphic Design | January 2, 2018 | Matthias Guenther
Largest Community College Newspaper is Designed with QuarkXPress
Campus News, the largest community college newspaper in the world, is designed using the professional desktop publishing software QuarkXPress. “It’s a wonderful program,” publisher Darren Johnson, who also is a college communications faculty member, said. “I teach Adobe InDesign, but prefer QuarkXPress in […]
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Graphic Design | December 9, 2017 | Matthias Guenther
Are subscriptions the new dongles?
Back in 1997 QuarkXPress introduced a dongle. A dongle is small piece of hardware that controls the legitimate use of the software. It wasn’t a good idea. Therefore Quark stopped using dongles in 2002. And legitimate users hated dongles, as didn’t appear to […]
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Graphic Design | March 31, 2017 | Matthias Guenther
Happy 30th Birthday, QuarkXPress!
Thirty years ago today Quark debuted the first version of QuarkXPress – and the world of page layout changed forever. The new software replaced manual layout processes with WYSIWYG postscript that launched a new era of desktop publishing. The ensuing years have brought […]
