Jay J. Nelson

Review: QuarkXPress 9.1 with App Studio

For QuarkXPress users wanting to publish content to the iPad, the free 9.1 update to 9.0 is a no-brainer. If you're upgrading from pervious versions, 9.1 costs $299, but it's still one of the cheapest ways to publish magazines, books, and other content to Apple's App Store.

Review: QuarkXPress 9

New version of publishing powerhouse adds e-book export and new layout features. Is it time to upgrade?

QuarkXPress Tips for Type, Pages, & Paths

Learn how to replace fonts across a QuarkXPress document; give editable text a fuzzy edge; flip a Bezier path from top to bottom; and start a file with a spread.

QuarkXPress Tips for Everyday Tasks

With just a few words and a screenshot or two, we'll show you how to control text wraps, move pages between documents, preview printing colors, and uncover buried items -- all in QuarkXPress!

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.

CreativePro.com—Design Tools Weekly Podcast

Our podcast features the insights of two industry veterans. With their wide-ranging interests, each episode has something for everyone!

QuarkXPress Tips: Word Import, Printing Fix, Preview Prescience

In this collection of quick and handy tips, learn how to improve importing from Microsoft Word, troubleshoot QuarkXPress printer problems, cut paths, and more.

Top QuarkXPress Tips

Adjust dot leaders, link spreadsheets to tables, and learn the logic behind spaces before and after paragraphs.

QuarkXPress Text, Image, and Productivity Tips

Quickly adjust the space between letters or words, create embossed text, fade a photo with a gradient, and more.

New Features in Creative Suite 4

This article originally appeared in Design Tools Monthly. Cross-Suite Interface Changes Application frame (optional): * This large window contains all your open documents and panels, on a neutral-colored background. You can move the whole thing around, even onto a second display. Tabbed windows (optional): * Each document appears as a tab in the Application Frame

Tips for QuarkPress 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8

These tips on guides, layers, image attributes, and style sheets will leave you happy no matter what version of XPress you use.

QuarkXPress Tips: Graphically Speaking

Good design does not live by text alone. To master QuarkXPress, add these image-oriented tricks to your workflow.

QuarkXPress Tips

You're sure to find new nuggets of information in this diverse collection of tips.

Review: QuarkXPress 7

In many ways, it's a great leap forward. In other ways, it falls short. Is the new version enough to keep current XPress users in the Quark fold? Can it even entice some people back from InDesign?

Plug-Ins and XTensions: Helpers for Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, InDesign, and QuarkXPress

This month's round-up of plug-ins and XTensions includes tools for getting better black-and-white images, adding frames to photos, exporting PSD files from PDFs, educating style sheets in Quark, and more.

Plug-Ins and XTensions: Helpers for Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and InDesign

New and updated products that colorize grayscale images; add brushes and frames to Photoshop; label and rename graphics in QuarkXPress; apply image effects within InDesign; and more

QuarkVista Primer

What the heck is it and why should I care?

That Was Then

A brief history of QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress 7 Public Beta: Not the Same Old Toolbox

From the most modern laser level to the trustiest ol' hammer, we've got the facts about everything in the QuarkXPress beta.

Plug-Ins and XTensions: Helpers for Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, and InDesign

This month's new and updated products let you fix an unfocused image; remove noise; mimic a page curl; build RSS feeds; convert QuarkXPress 3, 4, 5, and 6 files to InDesign; and more!