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While it’s a little like using an ocean liner to go fishing, making greeting cards in QuarkXPress is a quick way to make professional-looking personalized cards for any occasion....
QuarkXpress is a powerful desktop publisher commonly used to develop print layouts for magazines, newspapers and other media. During the preparation of these layouts it is a very common practice...
Whether you want to keep it simple with just invitations and place cards or would like to add a bit of whimsy to your wedding day with items such as printed matchbooks and napkins, the right...
When you create a new document in QuarkXPress 4.0 for Macintosh or Windows, you need to make some basic decisions about your page layout - page size, number of columns on the page, margin width, etc.
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You may want to add color to some or all of the text in a particular QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 document for Macintosh. You can use color to highlight important information or just to add pizzazz to a...
Master pages are helpful, especially in larger documents, because they allow you to manage elements common to all the pages (or to several pages) within a document. These common elements include...
QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 for Macintosh provides terrific features that allow you to apply background color to a text box. This can enhance the appearance of your document. Windows instructions may...
Color, when applied judiciously to a QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 for Macintosh document, can enhance a page's appearance and make the information it contains easier to understand. Windows instructions...
QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh allow you to apply styles from a style sheet that you create. This process is especially helpful with large documents because you simply apply styles without...
Leading (pronounced led-ing) is the space between lines of text in a document. Adjusting the leading, especially in a page of dense text, often makes the text easier to read. Less space between...
QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh provide six different page views of your Quark documents, so you can select the view that works best for you. Windows instructions may vary slightly.
QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 for Macintosh provides an easy way to copy text and graphics from one QuarkXPress document to another. This is helpful, especially when you need to create multiple documents...
QuarkXPress provides a way for you to create and resize picture boxes for your QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 documents for Macintosh. You may need to adjust picture box sizes as you adjust your...
Style sheets allow you to create all of the styles you want to use for your QuarkXPress 3.3 or 4.0 Macintosh document. You can create or add to your style sheet at any time while working on your...
QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh make it easy to create a text box in any Quark document. Drawing a text box gives control in positioning the document's text. Windows instructions may vary...
Cropping is the process of cutting a portion of a photograph or graphic that is unnecessary to that image's message. You can crop only the outside edges of a photo or graphic.
Sometimes when you edit a document, you need fewer pages than originally intended. QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh makes it easy to delete pages from a Quark document. Windows instructions...
When you need a line in QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh, you can easily insert one, size it and add color to meet your document needs. Windows instructions may vary slightly.
You may occasionally decide to change some of the specifications for a style you created in QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 for Macintosh. This is easy to do because Quark's designers anticipated this...
Grouping items, such as a graphic and an article in a newsletter, allows you to reposition the entire piece in one step without displacing its components. These instructions are for QuarkXpress...
You can use QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 to create fancy drop caps in your documents to jazz up the layout just like magazines do. Windows instructions may vary slightly.
In your QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 documents for Macintosh and Windows, you can insert new pages before or after a specific page or at the end of your document.
You can open and close QuarkXPress 3.3 and 4.0 palettes in Macintosh and Windows to make them available when you need them or to remove them from the screen when you're finished.
QuarkXPress is most commonly known as software that is used to create and edit complex layouts for print publication. However, you can also create a basic website with multiple pages in this...
QuarkXPress is software to create and edit complex layouts for print publication. The most common feature of QuarkXPress is the box. Boxes can contain text, graphics, lines, shapes or any object...
QuarkXPress was once the only page-layout graphics program that most serious designers would even consider using. PageMaker was in a far distant second place, and few designers really liked that...
Professional-level software program files used to be so large that they were unmanageable if it had all its graphics embedded. That is, "part of" the file. The way software developers got around...
Once upon a time, publishing a book took a lot of people with a lot of skills. From the writer to the editor, from the typesetter to the printer, many people and a lot of equipment were involved....
With a seemingly endless variety of software packages available for Macintosh and PC computers, it often has been difficult for people to show other people their work in the same format in which...
QuarkXpress is software commonly used to create and edit complex page layouts including: flyers, magazines, newspapers, catalogs and other printed materials. You can also use a plugin to Quark...
Brochures frequently fly around school campuses promoting everything from politics to events to health care. People use them because they're a quick way of getting a lot of information into a lot...
Despite the proliferation of photo sharing sites on the Internet, people still like to hold photo albums in their hands. They like to be able to flip through their past and relive the moments in...
QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing and layout program developed and released by the Quark company and used on the Mac operating system. Occasionally, Quark users may encounter a relatively common...
Files with the extension ".INDD" are page layout files. Adobe InDesign designates its files with that extension. Page layout programs offer a wide range of capabilities but are a bit complex to...
Newspapers have been around for hundreds of years and for most of that time, design wasn't an important consideration. The truth was that most people were so eager for news that it didn't matter...
QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign are two layout programs used for desktop publishing. Often, they are used to produce books, pamphlets, brochures and other print materials. Many of the features in...
If you are using QuarkXpress to work with a book manuscript you may need to get your QuarkXpress QXP file into PDF format. Converting a QXP file to a PDF is actually pretty simple and it can even...
Adobe's page layout program was initially launched to facilitate file preparation for print media. New renditions of InDesign claim to break the barriers between static and dynamic publishing. In...
If you are sending documents back and forth between you and a client or between you and other offices, you might occasionally find it necessary to convert one document format to another to meet...
Although QuarkXPress and Photoshop are both professional designing programs, they are not the same type of program. They both have drawing capabilities, they both can edit text and they are both...
Adobe InDesign is the heir to the original desktop publishing program, PageMaker. It was PageMaker that was the "killer app" for the Apple Macintosh because it did something no other program had...
Technically, Adobe InDesign predates QuarkXPress because it is derived from PageMaker, the first desktop publishing program. PageMaker outsold QXP for many years, but QXP became the industry...
Adobe PageMaker is the original desktop publishing tool. During a time when publishing was done in a scripting language called PostScript, PageMaker introduced interactivity between text and...
QXD is a file extension for a desktop publishing program that quickly became the industry's leader. QXD files are created using QuarkXPress 5 and earlier versions of QuarkXPress.
Desktop publishing has expanded since the days Pagemaker showed up on the Mac in 1985, both in the quality of the programs and the range of uses. The high-end programs for professional designers...
Quark and Adobe are fierce rivals in the page layout software industry. As such, Adobe's InDesign and Quark's Xpress are not compatible with each other. This poses a problem for designers who have...