Welcome to The XPresso Bar. (Also known as Throb Spear Sex to those diagnosed with Anagram Insanity.) I created this page to provide useful information about QuarkXPress, the page layout program that is an integral part of my job as a newspaper layout editor. I hope you find it useful. Let me know if there is anything I've missed and should add. - Bob Last update: 2/29/96 What's new: Background image survey, gratuitous animation for Netscape 2.0 users, Amazon Books		In this document: XPresso Bar specials Nodes Online reading Interaction Downloads XTensions Quark-to-HTML Other products
I also have a page of non-Quark stuff called Bob's Home BASS. It's not about fish. If it's coffee you want, here are links to The Organic Coffee Company, MotherCity Virtual Espresso Magazine and Hawaii's Best Espresso Company.		Protect your right to xpresso yourself

Background image survey

XPresso Bar specials

• Tips for using QuarkXPress for Mac or Windows
• Easter eggs and other hidden QuarkXPress features
• Interface for sending commands to the Quark Express List
• Function key reference, presented as table or plain text

Nodes

• Quark Inc. has its own Web site if you want to go straight to the source.
• DTP Internet Jumplist has links to many desktop publishing resources.
• Tons of useful links can be found at the Prepress/DTP Center.
• If you're interested in developing multimedia titles with QuarkXPress, you might want to check out what appears to be the first independent Web page devoted to the forthcoming QuarkImmedia.

Online reading

• The QuarkXPressUsers Website includes lots of helpful information about XPress. You can also sign up for an e-mail bulletin, which the folks who put this site together will send out every week or two.
• A QuarkXPress FAQ is under construction. Several sections can be found at ftp.telalink.net/pub/quark/faq/.
• Quark Inc.'s data*faxes contain a wealth of tips.
• Digital Training & Designs has quite a few QuarkXPress tips.
• Jeffrey M. Glover's monthly Get Info newsletter offers tips and tricks for desktop publishing professionals.
• Then there's Design Tools Monthly magazine.
• The latest edition of Digital Directions is now on the virtual stands.

Interaction

• The Quark Express List (aka QUARKXPR) is read by hundreds of helpful XPress users, as well as tech support people at Quark. It's a great forum for asking (or answering) questions. Here's an interface for sending subscription commands to the list server. Here's the latest copy of QUARKXPR Administrivia, maintained by Daniel Walker.
• There isn't a distinct newsgroup for QuarkXPress, but it is often discussed in comp.text.desktop and comp.publish.prepress.
• You can sort of interact with David Blatner, a prolific writer of Quark books, through his page at Peachpit Press' site.
• The many ways to contact Quark Inc. are listed at Quark's contact page.
• The Herald in Everett, Wash., (where I work) is hosting a mailing list devoted to DewarView, a publishing system that uses QuarkXPress as its layout component. To subscribe, send e-mail to macjordomo@heraldnet.com with "subscribe dewarlist" (without the quotes) in the body of the message.
• The QuarkXPress vs. PageMaker survey results haven't been updated since May 1995, so there's probably no point in filling out the survey form (or in me even including the links, but the pages are still there, so why not).

Downloads

• ftp.telalink.net/pub/quark: This FTP site, maintained by David Anderson, is the best one around for QuarkXPress users. Note: Most of these files are stored in binary form, which Netscape sometimes has problems with. If you find that files aren't downloading intact, try switching to Fetch or another dedicated FTP program.
• ftp.funet.fi/pub/mac/appl/xpress: Easier to get into if you're in Finland.
• Quark Inc.'s file library: Straight from Denver to your desktop.
• The Virtual Shareware Library has become my first stop when looking for software on the net. It has front desks located around the world, indexes the contents of several big archives, lets you search by platform, and shows you all the mirror sites where a specific file exists.
• The Info-Mac Hyperarchive is the easiest way to look for stuff at the popular Info-Mac archive at Stanford.
• Astrobyte lets you download a demo version of its BeyondPress XPress to HTML converter for Macintosh. The demo expires at the end of December (unless they extend it again).
• Harri Jalkanen offers a downloadable demo of QXImporter.
• Quark to HTML: A downloadable Perl script being developed by Jeremy Hylton at The Tech newspaper at MIT, to convert from Quark Tags to HTML. Versions are available for DOS/Unix and Mac.
• Each month, font vendor Letraset hides a different free downloadable font somewhere on its Web site. Their site also has a cool feature called The Ripper that will render headlines for you in the font of your choice.

XTensions

• XChange, a clearing house for Quark XTensions, offers a searchable on-line catalog. You can also download a number of their demos from ftp.telalink.net/pub/quark/XChange.
• XTension developer Vision's Edge has its own Web site, including information about custom XTension development.
• Hologramophone has a line of XTensions called Gluons.
• QXImporter, developed by Harri Jalkanen of Finland, enhances Quark's text and picture importing capabilities. A downloadable demo is available.
• SoftQuad offers information and on-line ordering for its SGML Enabler for QuarkXPress XTension.
• Npath has descriptions and downloadable demos of its Tableworks and TextLinker XTensions.
• Extensis' Web site includes info about QX-Tools and a downloadable demo. On-line ordering, tips, FAQ, etc., don't appear to be implemented yet.
• Keep an eye on Markzware's self-described "slapped together" Web site for "more interesting things soon."
• deMacInnovations' PaginationPal automates many template creation tasks.

Quark-to-HTML

• Quark to HTML: A downloadable Perl script being developed by Jeremy Hylton at The Tech newspaper at MIT, to convert from Quark Tags to HTML. Versions are available for DOS/Unix and Mac.
• Eric Knudstrup's text-only HTML XPort XTension is available at telalink.
• Astrobyte has information and ordering of several XTensions. You can also download a demo version of its BeyondPress XPress to HTML converter for Macintosh.
• HexMac has an HTML converter for QuarkXPress called HexWeb XT, as well as a multilingual Web site with a cool animated globe.
• The latest entry in the Quark-to-HTML market is e-Gate, from Rosebud Technologies of France.

Other products

• PhotoDisc lets you browse and download images from its stock photo archives.
• Walnut Creek CDROM carries several shareware clip-art and font collections, which you can sample through FTP.
• Personal Training Systems produces hands-on, interactive CD-ROM training for QuarkXPress. Their site includes product descriptions and on-line ordering.
• Letraset offers samples of their many fonts.
• Dean Phillip Lem's web page describes and lets you order his book, Graphics Master 5. It's sort of a Swiss army knife for graphics people. Worth checking out.
• Search Amazon.com Books for books on QuarkXPress.

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