A recent post gave an overview of Quark’s ability as a web-authoring tool and my conclusion was essentially ‘nice looking pages, shame about the code’. Alternatively, using the same method of exporting Quark to Word, you can also export a string of text to HTML in a similar fashion, although the results are similarly unsatisfying.
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Exporting HTML from QuarkXPress
Bullet points in QuarkXPress
For reasons that have long escaped me, QuarkXPress has no automatic method for making bullet points (or numbered lists for that matter). There’s no magic button, as in MS Word, that gives you an instantly formatted bullet point that’s easy to customise.
If you’re importing text from MS Word (Word 2003 at least) using File>Import Text, [...]
Making web pages with QuarkXPress
Now, you may have found this article in the expectation of a comprehensive guide to using Quark as a web-authoring tool. While I have spent some time playing around with this feature, I’m no expert. Having said that, I’ve found virtually nothing on the internet on this subject so in the kingdom of the blind, [...]
Crop marks and bleed
I expect you’re aware with the concept of bleed — essentially printers print your pages on oversize paper and cut them down to size. If you have colour or an image at one or more edges of a page and you send the file at its finished size, the printer only has to be a [...]
Excel and Quark
Speed up the creation of tables by directly importing Excel spreadsheets into QuarkXPress [link]Bringing in text
How to get MS Word files into QuarkXPress without losing your formatting [link]Create a table of contents
Automatic table of contents — a very useful but well-hidden QuarkXPress feature. [link]
