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Happy Valentine’s Day! Especially to my dear friend QuarkXPress. Oh how I love thee! Let me count the ways…

Just this morning I was struggling with OpenOffice, trying to get a relatively simple document laid out properly. It was a nightmare! The biggest problem is trying to get pictures in your document to work properly. There’s pretty much no easy way to just plop an image box in the middle of your page that you can position absolutely on the page. Furthermore, I was trying to get horizontal rules to show up between certain paragraphs, and then suddenly it wouldn’t let me delete the horizontal rules any more! I fought with OpenOffice for about two hours until I finally gave up. “When I get home, I’ll do this in Quark and be a much happier man.”

And I was right. In between periods of the Vancouver/Minnesota hockey game, I was able to put together an awesome-looking layout in a fraction of the time it took me to consign OpenOffice to the trash bin of layout programs. Thanks, Quark! Once again you have saved the day.

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