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    Hopefully a simple layout question - but I'm stuck...

    It's also true that most desktop laser or inkjet printers aren't as consistent in positioning as printing presses, and you may want to avoid printing elements too close to your margins in case your paper shifts a little from sheet to sheet. Hope this helps G
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    adding dotted lines into a table

    When you say "table" are you referring to a tabbed text table, as in Quark 3,4, 5 and 6, or a collection of text boxes, in the new Table item (Quark 5 and 6)? If the former, you have to adjust your tab columns so that the fill characters are ". " (period and space) which will automatically...
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    Preflight Program

    Gluon also offers an XTension which can look for many user-specified problems. Not very expensive, works with QXP 4 and 5. I had very good luck when I was in organizations that used Flightcheck, but it's pricier than the Xtension.
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    Page Numbering in a 10 pg. Newsletter?

    Check with your printer before getting too far into the project. Most printers have software or well-established procedures to output in spreads to their liking, which could include adding extra center margins for outside pages, to allow for the added thickness of paper folded around the inner...
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    Recomendations for good Art Series? & Opinions: Art Explosion 600,000?

    Seems to me that most collections I've seen are geared toward quick fliers, company newsletters, small space ads and such: very general, very stylized art good for breaking up large areas of type but not necessarily offering a choice of style. Many reflect the historical era they were designed...
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    trifold, 2/1 with pms color + black

    I forgot to mention that Quark can colorize either foreground or background with tints of your spot colors (e.g., 30% Red, 70% PMS 325, etc). It's quick and easy to try out different combinations in Quark until you find something you like. To simulate those effects with a Photoshop duotone, the...
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    trifold, 2/1 with pms color + black

    Quark is very quick for dummying in these color effects, and I'll usually use it at least as far as client approval. I haven't yet had problems with the printers I use losing registration with these, but there may be some background trapping issues I haven't run into. Most of the larger print...
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    Printing a catalog to my Epson 740i outputs diff. colors. why?

    Also you will find big differences outputting as RGB or CMYK, due to the Epson software. I have used Adobe's PressReady (no longer supported, alas) very successfully to simulate press proofs using CMYK output setting. After a little setup, things went very well. G
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    Pantone colors?

    You can't rely on clients or printers calibrating to a tight standard. A physical object, like a well-produced inkjet print, gives an objective reference, but requires that your color workflow be reasonably well set up. (And even that print is subject to variations based on lighting!) G
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    Quark 6: won't print some fonts to Apple Laserwriter

    I'm not sure if this is the problem, but OSX has supplied some OpenType format fonts (more than 255 characters) which are not necessarily well supported in all programs. It may also be that your Laserwriter isn't recognizing the format (because its software comes from an earlier era). Since you...
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    trifold, 2/1 with pms color + black

    I generally will use a dark color with a strong middle value color for this kind of situation, but if you choose NOT to use a dark color as your second color, you can get some interesting atmospheric effects as well. Try playing with lime green and pink, for example. These colors are not great...
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    Speech Recognition

    For the first week after I got the speech recognition up and running, my kids were leaning into my computer and shouting "Tell me a joke". The scripts for voice recognition can be opened in Script editor (Applescript -- you may have to learn a bit about it to get it to work well). You...
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    QuarkXPress 3.32 (Import Footnotes? from Word?)

    See the other posting. I notice that you added to that one as well. No simple solutions, but you might want to cut-and-paste out of Word. (Pour the copy first, so you'll know where to put them.)
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    Footnotes from Word into Quark

    Additional thought: in a case like this, you basically have to think ahead so you won't get in your own way. That means having style sheets (esp. character styles) set up and Word copy-cleaned for the way you want it -- even changing the Word stylesheets so it will import cleanly (a lot of...
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    Footnotes from Word into Quark

    Okay, still think you should take my advice above: make a set of linked boxes at the bottom of your page (footnote area). Copy the footnotes as a block (see above), then shift-enter at end of each to force next one into next box. This is assuming that you do want footnotes at bottom of...
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