http://www.theonemanpublisher.com Desktop publishing and printing for editors Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:40:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/quarkxpress/bullet-points-in-quarkxpress/ 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 ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/ms-word/exporting-html-from-quark-via-word/ 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 ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/quarkxpress/making-web-pages-with-quarkxpress/ 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 ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/printing/crop-marks-and-bleed/ This post continues from my previous post, explaining how to output a print-quality PDF via PostScript from QuarkXPress. It explains what further options you must enable in order to get the file size down as small as possible, without sacrificing too much quality. I personally distill my PostScript files to a ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/adobe-acrobat/web-optimised-pdfs-from-quarkxpress/ In a slight departure of style — and a slight outbreak of geekiness — here's a video outlining my methods for making print-quality PDFs from QuarkXPress, via a PostScript file. I'm not the world's best commentator, so you'll have to forgive me. If you're interested, the video was created using a ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/adobe-acrobat/making-a-print-quality-pdf-from-quarkxpress/ Now, there are an awful lot of these — some requiring considerable finger gymnastics — and really too many to remember. Here, I try to list the ones I personally use the most and also list some Quark-specific formatting that may make your life easier. The following are all based on QuarkXPress 7 ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/quarkxpress/some-quark-keyboard-shortcuts/ The surprising answer to this question is 'yes' -- but only up to a point. If you place the cursor inside a text box and go to File>Save Text, QuarkXPress will let you save the entire story -- the contents of the text box and all those linked to it. If ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/ms-word/can-i-export-quark-to-word/ Find and Replace, used intelligently, can save an awful lot of time and is really worth getting acquainted with. QuarkXPress and Word both have extensive capabilities, but I'll deal with MS Word first. Actually, Find and Replace is one of the better features of MS Word. I consider myself pretty decent ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/ms-word/finding-and-replacing-in-ms-word-part-i/ Yes, i've moved the site to a shiny, hosted server running wordpress.org and bought the domain name. This will no doubt allow to me to do lots of exciting new things (when I get around to it) and put some CSS feathers in my cap. Although there's a bit more ... http://www.theonemanpublisher.com/general/a-new-domain/