Sophia, I'm not familiar enough with Quark 6.0 yet to know the answer. Plus, I've been using Quark (4.1) for almost 10 years here, and tend to treat it like a word processing/text editor program, right in layout view.

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Thanks Steph!

I have been doing that, but the layout I am working with are so graphic heavy and have such little bits of text all over the place that it is beginning to drive me craxy.

I'm hoping to get my hands on Quark 5.0, because apparantly I can then convert the file to InDesign, which I actually know how to use!

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This is cooler than a cool thing cooled by liquid helium:

This week the Roxio company introduces the Boom Box, a $50 suite of iPod applications that includes a DJ program called MusicMagic Mixer. Originally offered on the Internet, the Mixer is designed specifically to create mood-appropriate yet illuminating combinations of music from your own collection. Its method, according to software architect Wendell Hicken, is to analyze the digital files that store the acoustic information that tells your music player what sound to produce. For instance, by recognizing the bits that encode a drumbeat, the program can divine the volume, tempo and energy of a tune. What's more, by digitally decoding all songs in the same way, it's possible to find hidden affinities between unexpected tunes.

After enduring a long period where MusicMagic painstakingly "fingerprinted" my songs for analysis, I was instantly able to construct some great playlists based on a single "seed" tune that was the keystone of my musical desires that day. Though a seed of alt-country crooner Kathleen Edwards yielded a mix with similar artists like Lucinda Williams and Tift Merritt, it also included an unanticipated but snugly appropriate tune by rocker J Mascis.

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As per Usual, a Quark 6.0 Question.

Don't know quark at all, but have a general workaround I use for problems like that - create my text and even the basic layout in another program then import into the publising program for the final polish. For example, years ago I used to use Pagemaker once in a blue moon - never for long enough to really get up the learning curve. So I'd always create stuff in Word, including final wordng, and a rough layout (fonts. columns, approximately where the graphics woudl go), then import it into Pagemaker to for the final fiddly bits where you got it exactly the way you wanted. Could you do the equivalent with some program familiar to you with Quark?

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Typo-- I tend to do that too, except what I am doing is changing other people's Quark files, just the text. It sucks. Which is why I would like to export the Quark file to anything else!

But thank you!

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Disposable camcorder.

Neato!

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Which is why I would like to export the Quark file to anything else!

It's of absolutely of no help tonight, Sophia, but I will check it out tomorrow and e you if I can find the answer.

I'm a shipper for the PageMaker, for a while FrameMaker, and now finally learning InDesign. But I've done a lot of grudging work in Quark previously (and hated the lack of a story editor) and the new version is remarkably less annoying to me.

For translation issues: InDesign will open up Quark 4. Quark 6 will save back to 5, and 5 will save back to 4. I was messing around with files trying to figure out a bizarro gradient issue in InDesign last week...

t /layout natter

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For translation issues: InDesign will open up Quark 4. Quark 6 will save back to 5, and 5 will save back to 4. I was messing around with files trying to figure out a bizarro gradient issue in InDesign last week...

Hmmm... I don't, of course, have all those editions but where there is a will, there is a way.

Thanks for checking, Cass.

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What's the meaning of today's Google front page logo?

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Frank Lloyd Wright -- if you click on the custom logos, it'll take you to a search of the thematic terms.

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