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Curiosity getting the best of you? QuarkXPress 8: a suite response.

Tim Banister, general manager of desktop software for Quark, Inc., says that QuarkXPress 8 is the best version so far. While the list of new features is comparatively short, they are far reaching. Everywhere you look — menus, palettes, and dialogues — there's something new, something streamlined, or something just plain cool.

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One-trick Ponies ride to the workflow rescue.

Describing any extensions module as a one-trick pony borders on a misnomer, but for the purpose of this article, it fits. In the next few pages I'll shed some light on Photoshop, QuarkXPress, InDesign, and Acrobat extensible technology, and a book that is a must have for everyone. Each of these products provides a singular purpose — for less than $50.

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StockLayouts design templates for a running start.

Whether you are an experienced graphic designer or a novice needing a helping hand, using design templates, you can gain artistic inspiration and enhance client communication while streamlining tedious production tasks. Call it design inspiration, if you will.

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Sonar Bookends Professional for automatic indices and TOCs.

There are many ways to create a professional-looking index, table of contents, or site index for a web site, and there are a number of automation techniques, but none compare to the processing and text control of Virginia Systems' line of tools.

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Another Photoshop step-by-step tutorial from Colin Smith.

If you're into textures, check out this reprint from PhotoshopCAFE's Colin Smith. In ten easy steps, you can create realistic wood textures.

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If you're in the mood to learn, this week's posting from VTC is another look at the texture features of Photoshop.

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CopyFlow Gold: import, export, and round-trip your QuarkXPress and InDesign documents.

Imagine being able to export all of the individual text boxes of a catalogue, translate the text, and then have it flow back into the document, in the same way it was exported. It's not impossible, it's the feature set of CopyFlow Gold.

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My 7 Favorite XTensions for 7.

Now that you've upgraded to QuarkXPress 7, or are considering an upgrade, what XTensions are available? Here's my favorite seven, but they are just a small selection of the myriad from which you may choose.

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ID2Q and Q2ID: document conversion the easy way.

Looking to transform InDesign documents into QuarkXPress projects or QuarkXPress projects into InDesign documents, and you're not up for a day-long session of recreating from scratch? Good news awaits you.

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Stop linking around. Get
Sonar Bookends Activate.

Sonar Bookends Activate sets the bar and continues to maintain its position as the most-advanced auto-activation Plug-in. It is a good stand-alone solution or a good next step for those of you who create books and catalogues in a desktop-publishing application. Automatically activate links for URLs, email addresses, figures, page numbers, tables of content, and indices.

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Today there's more than just one video option — move over Flash — make room for Silverlight.

NBC will be streaming the Olympic video using Silverlight®, a new platform from Microsoft® for delivering interactive and video content to Mac®, PC, and mobile computers. As a viewer, you will be able to choose screen angles, get real-time information about events, and choose their own picture-in-picture settings.

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IconLogic — blended learning of desktop applications.

Given the popularity of online eLearning, IconLogic's approach — skills and drills — is making masters of novices in record time. These unique online, interactive, self-paced versions of his workbooks, include courses on Adobe Captivate, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. You'll find that these virtual classes provide you the benefit of the classroom, without actually traveling to the classroom.

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BigPicture for QuarkXPress and InDesign — picture-handling automation at its finest.

Keeping track of pictures, updating modified pictures, and the most challenging of all, replacing pictures with new pictures, have been workflow drags for as long as publishing has been on the desktop, but Badia spends much of their time developing solutions.

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Rumor has it that Quark is abandoning the desktop. Rubbish!

The future of content-driven, media-independent publishing comes to life with new Quark® enterprise solutions founded on Quark technology, partnerships, and open standards.

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Tools of the Trades: StudioPack for QuarkXPress & InDesign, Printools XT, and Exportools for QuarkXPress and InDesign.

Extensions technology, by its very nature, benefits production persons most. These three time savers will enhance any tool collection and you will likely find that you rarely approach a project without them.

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Galaxy Gauges:
professional measuring tools.

These ultra-professional and precise measuring tools will satisfy even the most discriminating designer or desktop publisher.

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ThePowerXChange Online

ThePowerXChange distributes nearly all extension-based technology used by QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, After Effects, Director, FreeHand, PageMaker, Painter, Premiere, InDesign, Quark Publishing System, QuarkXPress Passport, and many stand-alone applications for the designer, publisher, and printer. Search through thousands of products using keywords, product names, core applications, or categories. In addition, the web site contains thousands of megabytes of product demos, freeware, shareware, and updaters.

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Making the most of your effort: shared content.

Recently, Joe Root noticed that he was using a text and picture boxes in several places and constantly manipulating that content over and over in the different places where the content had been placed...and then it dawned on him... Find out what.

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