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Beermonster,
This really is a "feature" of Quark, and one that is sadly lacking in ID.
Do you remember back to about 1984 or 85?
You had some Cheap Trick cranked up on the 8-track (by then I was firmly in the cassette camp, but my 1969 Ford F250 still had an 8-track), the galley copy from your Comp II or Comp IVB was freshly waxed, maybe you were lucky enough to work in a shop with an Itek Quadritek: 4 fonts on call and nearly any point size you wanted, no changing of Width Plugs, you could even record the jobs to cassette tape to edit after the proofreading.
You sit down at the layout table with the parallel rule, tape down page one of the eight page newsletter you are assembling, and put the galley copy ON THE PASTEBOARD around the page. After page one is assembled, tape down page two and pick up the galley copy that didn't fit on page one. And so on, and so on until everything was in place.
PageMaker and Quark were first made for old farts like me, who kept the galley copy at hand as the pages were assembled. Start an article on page four, it doesn't all fit, put it aside on the pasteboard, find a perfect spot for it when you get to page seven.
When we switched to OS X and InDesign back in 2004, my blood pressure dropped by 15 points, but I decided to leave the newsletter layout to the youngsters, because it kept a separate pasteboard for each page or spread, instead of using the more natural paradigm of a single pasteboard with a layout sheet taped in the middle. Just a different way of looking at the world, but one step too far from the way I started in the business.
Best to follow TimS's advice - just make a PDF and get into ID as soon as possible.
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