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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 […]
