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That PDF is an important format for print production is now an accepted fact. But until recently, QuarkXPress — the dominant page-layout application — had no built-in support for PDF. You had to launch Acrobat Distiller to create PDF files of your QuarkXPress layout — certainly not a hardship, but a bit of a nuisance nonetheless.
While you can still make PDF files that way, it’s no longer necessary in QuarkXPress 6. That’s because Quark licensed Global Graphics’ Jaws technology — a PDF “clone, if you will — that allows you to export your layouts as PDFs directly from within QuarkXPress.
In this excerpt from “Real World QuarkXPress 6,” David Blatner explains the three main methods of making PDF files from QuarkXPress. If you produce print projects in QuarkXPress, you won’t want to miss this one.
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Excerpted from “Real World QuarkXPress 6” © 2004 David Blatner. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Peachpit Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
This article was last modified on January 11, 2022
This article was first published on January 23, 2004
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