Monthly Archives: December 2011

eBooks Evolve: Support for HTML5 and CSS3 Growing

Posted on December 23, 2011 by AGI

Amazon has announced forthcoming support for HTML5, CSS3 and more graphically rich-documents that will display on their color Kindle Fire e-reader. Support for these new capabilities on the Kindle will come as part of a new Kindle Format 8 (KF8) that should … Continue reading →

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Convert QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 9 + 10

Posted on December 23, 2011 by AGI

Continued… Step Nine: Import Graphics Graphics can be placed into your InDesign template using the Place command. If the image you’re importing contains layers (as in a .PSD or .AI file), you can choose which layers are visible on import. … Continue reading →

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Convert QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 7 + 8

Posted on December 22, 2011 by AGI

Continued.. Step Seven: Create New Master Pages Central to the template conversion process is the rebuilding of InDesign Master Pages to match those in the existing Quark template. Like Colors and Styles, InDesign can load Master Pages from other InDesign … Continue reading →

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Converting QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 5 + 6

Posted on December 21, 2011 by AGI

Continued.. Step Five: Build Colors Since you cannot import color palettes from a Quark document into an InDesign file, you’ll need to rebuild all CMYK and Pantone colors used with InDesign’s Swatches panel. Thankfully, you’ll only have to do this … Continue reading →

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Converting QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign: Steps 3 + 4

Posted on December 20, 2011 by AGI

Continued.. Step Three: Create a New Document in Adobe InDesign To convert your templates from Quark to InDesign, you’ll have to essentially recreate the template pages in InDesign. Page creation begins with the basics: starting a new document, setting up … Continue reading →

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Converting QuarkXPress Templates to InDesign

Posted on December 19, 2011 by AGI

For more than 15 years we’ve been helping users convert documents into new file formats so they can take advantage of new software tools and publishing platforms. More than 10 years ago we started helping publishers adopt InDesign and convert … Continue reading →

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