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Real World Tips for QuarkXPress 5: Ready for Output

Excerpted from “Real World QuarkXPress 5” (Peachpit Press). Peachpit Press is offering this book at a discount to creativepro.com readers. Follow this link. Collect for Output To make [sending files to the printer] significantly easier for y’all, Quark has included a cool feature called Collect for Output. Selecting this command from the File menu copies […]

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Something Elph: Canon’s S200 Packs Big Features into Tiny Camera

When Canon released the PowerShot S100 Digital Elph a few years ago, it stood alone in the category of “tiny, high-quality digital cameras.” Then came stiff competition in the form of excellent small cameras from Sony and Nikon (especially the Nikon CoolPix 2500), and the Elph was no longer the obvious small-camera choice that it […]

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dot-font: The Human Side of Sans Serif

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro.  If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]

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QuarkXPress How-To: Working with the Bézier and Freehand Tools

This story is taken from “Inside QuarkX-Press” (Element K Journals). Creativepro.com readers can subscribe to Element K Journals at a discount. Click here to learn more. Although QuarkXPress isn’t technically a drawing program, the engineering of Bézier and Freehand tools in version 4 certainly opened a world of opportunity and creativity for many users. As […]

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Hands On With The 700MHz iBook

I’m a big fan of Apple’s iBook line, and the latest 700MHz model only increases my affection. Despite the fact that it only has a G3 processor, the iBook is more than acceptable for anyone using it for word processing, e-mail, Web surfing and the occasional game. The iBook runs Mac OS X fast enough […]

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