Travel broadens the mind. Learning other languages increases our awareness of other perspectives and expressions. Using two page layout programs is a pain in the butt - kind of like travel or language lessons. I’ve noticed that I long for abilities on one application that are in the other application. But then, I (and probably everyone else) has longed for features in their favorite app that aren’t built into it. Tim Gill, Quark’s founder and chief architect, foresaw this and invented the first extensible application: QuarkXPress. Mostly because the hardware in 1988 was very limited, he created an application that efficiently performed most tasks a designer would want. Beyond that, you could buy an XTension. Today I’m spending time browsing the many plug-ins at ThePowerXChange.

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