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It's the Font Family thing It's the Font Family thing As I understand it, Windows always collapses font families into their root member, and you have to use the Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic buttons to get their variants. That’s one reason why (at one time, anyway) opening a Mac file on...

Any version of QuarkXPress can open documents created by older versions. Just use File> Open or drag the document file onto the QuarkXPress icon.

Read all about it: QuarkXPress 7.5 Update Released | Planet Quark

In QuarkXPress 7, you can install Quark's free XPert Tools set of XTensions and use XPert FindChange to change all instances of one color to another color. In QuarkXPress 8, it's built into the program as Item Find/Change, under the Edit menu.

Quadtone settings Quadtone settings We've run the following tip several times over the years, and have received thanks from our readers for it. Perhaps it will work for some of you... In Photoshop, choose Mode> Duotone. Then choose Quadtone and create the C,M,Y and K inks. Click the curve box...

Easy ways to center an item on the page Easy ways to center an item on the page Oh, please! Shall we list the many reasons that people don't "move on" to InDesign? Sheesh... Anyway, I can think of a couple of ways to do what you need to do: 1. Press Command-0 (that's a zero) to fit the page...

Just ask! Just ask! I think you just need to ask the companies that make cool stuff. My experience is that most of them are happy to provide prizes to recognize achievement. Try Adobe, Quark, Pantone, companies that make plug-ins for Photoshop, etc. Try publications in the industry. We would...

Design Tools Weekly & Inside Digital Design Design Tools Weekly & Inside Digital Design These two podcasts may be of interest to you. I'm the co-host of the first one, and a weekly guest on the second one. http://www.designtoolsweekly.com http://www.insidedigitaldesign.com - Jay Nelson...

Re: Quark 6 to 7? As a general practice, it's not wise to output documents from a different version of the application. Adobe changed many things in each version of InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Type is handled differently, transparency is handled differently, and color is handled...