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Compares the computer software QuarkXPress from Quark and InDesign from Adobe Systems Inc. Mac OS X support of the software; Graphic support; Page layout of the software.

Features the desktop and Web publishing software QuarkXpress 5.0 from Quark. Cost; Capabilities of the software; Interface improvements; Printer support changes; Support for Portable Document Format files.

Presents a buyer's guide to desktop publishing software. Adobe InDesign 1.5; QuarkXPress 4.1; Adobe PageMaker 6.5 Plus; Corel Print Office 2000; Corel Ventura 8 Publisher; Microsoft Publisher 2000 Deluxe. INSET: PRINT IT ONLINE..

Presents guidelines in building a book index using QuarkXPress 4.0 software. Key difference of automated index generators; Benefit of building an index using XPress. INSETS: Choosing Your Index;Stylin' Indexes;Building a Table of Contents.

Compares the Adobe InDesign 1.0 software of Adobe Systems Inc. and QuarkXPress 4.0 from Quark company aimed at desktop publishing. Typesetting capabilities of the software; Features of the software; Complaints on the software; Ability of the software in creating PDF files.

Focuses on the benefit offered by the XPress Tag features of the QuarkXPress software. Background of XPress Tags; Purpose of using XPress Tags; Common application of XPress Tags. INSETS: XPress Tags Prep Course;Project 1: Massage the Table of Contents;Project: Format Imported Data.

Reviews several desktop publishing (DTP) computer softwares. Categories of DTP software; Factors to consider when selecting a DTP software; Features of PageMaker 6.5 of Adobe Systems company; Target market of the Ventura Publisher 8 of Corel Corp.; Capabilities of the QuarkXPress Passport 4.04 of Quark company; Price of the Print House Magic Deluxe of Corel Corp. INSET: Editor's Choice.

Tests desktop publishing software. Newsletter, story brochure and a telecommunications sales proposal as tasks; FrameMaker for Windows 3.0 from Frame Technology Inc.; PageMaker for Windows 5.0 from Adus Corp.; QuarkXPress 3.1 from Quark Inc.; Ventura Publisher Windows Edition 4.1.1 from Ventura Software.

Examines high-end desktop-publishing software that enables the small business to market itself more professionally. Example of Daniel Matson, Animal House Pet Shop, Norwich, Conn.; Production of advertising copy, letterhead, brochures, newsletters, reports; Serif's PagePlus, Microsoft Publisher, QuarkXPress, Frame Technology's FrameMaker, Xerox's Ventura Publisher; Advantages; Costs; Contact points; Getting started. INSET: CD-ROM: You can take it with you (recording your own CD-ROM)..

Presents a comparison between AppleScript and QuarkXPress. Macros vs scripts; Creating scripts; Self-running scripts.

Presents a look at the capabilities of QuarkXPress 4.0 for Macintosh computers. Definition of character-level styles; Long documents; Color and printing; Improved features; Text wrap; Shape your text; Add and subtract shapes; Guided tour of clipping controls; Managing character style sheets. INSET: Caution: Saving in 3.3 format..

Reports on the competition as of 1997 between PageMaker 6.5 and QuarkXPress 4.0 for the Macintosh desktop-publishing software market. Chart of who wins for each capability and why; QuarkXPress better in layout format; Graphics and color evaluation; PageMaker's enhanced typographical controls; Text editing and business publishing; Top ten needed features for future publishing; Buying advice.

Focuses on precision color reproduction of pictures using Macintosh software for desktop publishing. Variations in the color-matching theme; Color-management systems; Color-management process; ColorSync 1.0.5; MonacoColor 1.51; Precision Packs; ColorMatch; FotoTune 1.1.3. INSETS: Low-cost, precise color measurement comes to the Mac.;Simple color matching..

Compares and contrasts the Aldus PageMaker version 5.0 and QuarkXPress version 3.2 desktop publishing programs. Pages and pasteboard; Page elements; Add-on modules; Interface and document construction; Text and type; Color; Printing; Documentation, online help and support.

Reviews the features of the desktop publishing programs (DTP) for Windows, namely Adobe PageMaker, FrameMaker, QuarkXPress and Ventura Publisher. INSET: Desktop publishing for electronic distribution..

Reviews desktop publishing software packages which produce professional looking documents. `Easy Working Desktop Publisher version 1.1' and `PFS: Publisher version 1.1' from SoftKey; `1st Press version 1.0,' Pressworks version 1.0' and `Publish It! version 4.0' as similar packages; `Microsoft Publisher version 2.0'; `HomePublisher version 2.01'; `Publish It! Easy version 3.02'. INSETS: In brief.;Upcoming reviews.;PagePlus 3.0: One step beyond..

Compares the Aldus PageMaker 5.0 and QuarkXPress 3.2 desktop publishing programs. Adoption of XPress by arts and graphics professionals; Capabilities in spot color and four-color process printing; Achievement of platform compatibility; Rating of each publisher. INSETS: In brief (features of PageMaker and QuarkXPress).;Taking the high road... or not (alternative software).;Corel launches Ventura..

Evaluates desktop publishing software. Includes Adobe PageMaker 6.5; Corel Ventura 7; QuarkXpress 3.32. INSETS: How we tested.;Editor's choice.;Designed for the Web?..

Focuses on the spring 1999 publishing software industry in the United States. The 1987 development of Quark Inc.'s QuarkXPress; Adobe's competing product, InDesign, a page layout program; Quark's partnership team of Timothy Gill and Farhad (Fred) Ebrahimi; Employee complaints against Ebrahimi.

The article features companies that deal with print design, digital design, imaging and creative campaign. One is Gannett Imaging and Ad Design Cener which specializes in pre-media services. Another is manroland web systems which manufactures digital finishing products. Another one is Libercus, a software development company that provides editorial content management and delivery.

The article reports on key or emerging trends in the newspaper industry as of September 2015 that provide insights about where the industry is going. Topics include the arrival of Adobe Creative Cloud software as a service offering which provides newspapers with some advantages that they had not anticipated, why newspapers should consider the Scribus desktop publishing application, and newspapers' focus on centralization and regionalization efforts.

Presents a step-by-step approach in transforming tables using the Dashes & Stripes feature of the QuarkXPress software. Example of creating a custom dash that matched the size of a table; Use of custom dashed line in alternating tint stripes; Types of effects to add to the table.

Focuses on the way of improving QuarkXPress' performance in processing words. Check-box options of the Get Text dialog box of the software; Tricks for the shortcomings of QuarkXPress.

Offers advice on the use of software utilities called XTensions to add functionality to the QuarkXPress documentation and publishing program for Macintosh-compatible computers. Software for preparing documents before preflight; Tool for importing Adobe Photoshop graphics files into QuarkXPress; Tool for publishing database and spreadsheet data. INSETS: Where to Find XTensions;New XTensions in QuarkXPress 4.1.

Offers tips in using the QuarkXPress 4 computer software from Quark company. How to use the keyboard shortcuts; Hidden features of QuarkXPress; Ghosting images in text.

Provides tips and advice for making tables in QuarkXpress. Third party Xtensions for building tables; Setting paragraph tabs; Adjusting tab settings; Using style sheets with tabs; Browsing tab settings; Adding horizontal rules; Upgrading to Xtensions.

Discusses possible ways to use ColorSync color matching. Basics; Pitfalls; ColorSync and QuarkXPress; CMYK workflow; RGB workflow; Printing composite proofs; ColorSync and Photoshop. INSETS: What Apple doesn't tell you about LaserWriter;Dealing with out-of-gamut colors.

Discusses how to get prepress-ready Portable Document Format (PDF) files from QuarkXPress. The PDF advantage; Pitfalls; Two-part PDF process; Create a PostScript print file; Create a PDF file from Acrobat Distiller.

Informs about various features of different desktop publishing (DTP) programs influencing buyers' decision.

Offers commentary by Joseph R. Garber, management consultant with A.T. Kearney Inc., who states that were it not for the software entrepreneurs, the personal computer industry would be a flyspeck business. Real value is in the programming, not in the silicon; Companies that are profiting.

Evaluates several desktop publishing software. Aldus HomePublisher 2.0; Microsoft Publisher 2.0 CD-ROM Edition; Page Magic 1.01a; PagePlus Publishing Suite 3.05 CD-ROM Edition; PFS: Publisher 1.1. INSETS: Time isn't everything.;Do graphical word processors provide a DTP alternative?..

Evaluates and compares the desktop publishing softwares Aldus PageMaker Windows Version 5.0 and Macintosh Version 5, QuarkXPress Windows Version 3.12 amd Macintosh Version 3.2 and Ventura Publisher Windows Version 4.11. Program setup; Document setup; File preparation; Element placement; Layout modification; Documentation; Support policies; Technical support; Value. INSET: Summary..

A review is presented for open-source desktop publishing software, Scribus from Scribus company.

The article reviews the inDesign CS6 digital publishing program from computer software company Adobe Systems Inc.

The article provides reviews of several software products including Blow Up 3 and Snap Art 3 by manufacturer Alien Skin Software, and the QuarkXPress 9.1 desktop publishing program by Quark Software Inc.

Presents tips for using software for desktop publishing. QuarkXpress from Quark company; Adobe Photoshop and InDesign from Adobe company; Macromedia Freehand from Macromedia company.

Presents information on several Xtensions or plug-ins for the QuarkXpress desktop publishing software. FingerType typography plug-in from ALAP; FullMeasure XT measurement palette plug-in from Badia Software; XpressImage plug-in from Gluon; Autopage book layout plug-in from KyTek; ItemMaster plug-in from ALAP.

Offers tips on how to cope with the switch from QuarkXPress software to Adobe's InDesign printing and page layout software. InDesign's interface; Features of InDesign; Character styles and master pages; Color interface of InDesign. INSETS: Opening QuarkXPress Documents in InDesign;Clipping Paths and Text Wrap in InDesign.

Features electronic desktop publishing software. Adobe Systems Inc.'s Adobe Acrobat; No Hands Software's Common Ground; Frame Technology Corp.'s Frame Viewer; Interleaf Inc.'s WorldView; Folio Corp.'s Folio Views for Windows; Pennant Systems' Advanced Function Printing Workbench; WordPerfect Corp.'s WordPerfect Intellitag. INSETS: Electronic publishing with Adobe Acrobat.;Electronic publishing's lingua franca.;Your electronic-publishing options..

Discusses the dilemma faced by newspapers on whether to replace front end systems with pure desktop systems or install bridge and extension software to interface their existing platforms with various desktop components. Relation with training, cost, space and integration issues; Limitation of platform interoperability; Overall requirements of newspapers according to the `Seybold Report on Publishing Systems.'

Reports on the add-ons to Quark Inc.'s QuarkXPress system, running on both PC and Macintosh platforms. Indispensability of a number of QuarkXTensions; Color Change by Vision's Edge Inc.; Tableworks from Npath Software Inc.; More.

The article evaluates the Desk desktop publishing software from Yo gg for the Mac OS X operating system.

Describes the automated process of converting a QuarkXPress document into a Web-ready file using AppleScript and other utilities. Suitability of QuarkXPress for making simple advertisements; Need to use XPress 4.04; AppleScript's use of the EPS Generic filter to open in PhotoShop any EPS files that appear in the filter.

Provides information on XTensions, a plug-ins which increases the productivity of QuarkXPress. Reasons users tend to shy away from XTensions; Important rules in using XTensions; Shareware for XTensions.

Presents a chart which compares desktop publishing software for educational uses. Software includes `CreataCard Plus!,' by American Greetings; `Greetings Workshop,' by Microsoft; `Print Artist 4.0,' by Sierra On-Line; `Print Shop Ensemble,' by Broderbund and `PrintMaster Gold Publishing Suite 3.0,' by Mindscape Incorporated.

Focuses on desktop publishing (DTP) software for small business documents. Advantage of DTP software over word processing programs; Use of Microsoft Publisher; Serif's PagePlus 3.0; Highend software for professional publishers; Adobe PageMaker; Corel Ventura 5; QuarkXpress; Compatibility of software with computers.