HebrewXT introduces a new era of Hebrew publishing. It is designed as an XTensions module to QuarkXPress Passport, therefore, its features are limitless. Any enhancement to QuarkXPress enhances HebrewXT. Also HebrewXT can be enhanced independently of QuarkXPress.

HebrewXT features are based on the performance of a traditional system with the flexibility of a desktop system. QuarkXPress' precise typographic controls and its sophisticated page-layout features are now applicable to the Hebrew language. HebrewXT is easy to use; just open QuarkXPress and start publishing without the need of any additional program.

HebrewXT can now be purchased without the requirement for Arabic XT or the Hebrew Language kit from Apple Computer.

No fonts ship with the package, though it does include a small application which converts the Mac system fonts so that they can be used with the software.

All Arabic products are shipped directly from Lebanon at the time of the customer's order and incur additional shipping charges. In the event that the product cannot be delivered electronically, as some cannot, you will be notified of the shipping surcharge. Note that this surcharge is generally $45.

Manufacturer: Layout Limited

For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.

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Manufacturer: Virginia Systems, Inc.

An XTensions module for creating indices across one or more QuarkXPress documents. IndeXTension enables the user to insert index markers throughout documents, manually or automatically. Whether single entries or in multilevel subcategories, IndeXTension puts the user in control.

INposition is a QuarkXPress XTension that offers complete and easy-to-use imposition capabilities.

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Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

Besides providing all the features of the standard version, MadeToPrint XT auto for QuarkXPress runs hotfolder-based and offers unmatched power regarding automated printing, proofing or file exporting. Now includes imposition features.

MadeToPrint XT optimizes and extends output and print options in QuarkXPress and has been designed for professional users, who have to create, organize and control larger numbers of print-/output jobs.

MagazineXT is an efficient QuarkXPress XTensions module that enables a user to monitor the progress of a magazine's editions through a web browser — while being produced. MagazineXT provides email previews of QuarkXPress pages and warning alerts, thereby reducing costs.

Features:

• electronically export a preview of the magazine in HTML format;

• preview is exported in specified time increments, or when the document is saved allowing continuous job status monitoring through a web browser;

• access a thumbnail preview of the magazine's pages as they are being produced and a full preview of each page; and

• preview previously published issues by specifying a desired date and the range of pages, and the selected portion of the magazine is accessible in a web browser.

Manufacturer: Layout Limited

The Math Grabber XTensions module performs spreadsheet-like calculations on numerical text appearing anywhere in a QuarkXPress document. This XTensions module is great for updating price charts or modifying financial-information tables.

To decrease all prices in a column by 15%, click on the math grabber tool, drag a marquee around the price column to change, enter the discount, and click ok. Math Grabber XTensions module scans the selected area, calculates the new amounts, and inserts the resulting values automatically.

Math Grabber XTensions module is flexible. Specify precision and create separator sets which can be recalled and applied at any time. This feature can be very useful, especially when working with mixed currency formats in the same document.

Manufacturer: Meadows Information Systems, LLC

MathMagic XTensions module provides you with the user interface (a menu and a tool button) which enables you to create and edit equations inside the QuarkXPress document. It then communicates with the external MathMagic Pro application seamlessly.

The Nametag XTensions module automatically labels graphics placed in a QuarkXPress document. This makes it easy to identify which graphic files are used in any area of a document. The labels are placed in QuarkXPress text boxes on, above, or below the graphics in the document, and the user may specify the font and size of the text which identifies the graphics. Optionally, labels can include full path information.

Nametag labels are made of standard QuarkXPress text boxes, so they are fully printable. The labels can be manually deleted before final output of the document or by using the label-removal feature that quickly strips the Nametag labels back out of the QuarkXPress document.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

NewspaperXT, a QuarkXPress XTensions module, enables managers and chief editors to monitor the progress of the current newspaper edition, while it is being produced, on a web browser. Additionally, NewspaperXT also allows users to receive customized warnings on errors.

NewspaperXT provides total control over the newspaper because status can be monitored electronically at all times through any web browser.

End costly design and pre- and post-printing errors. NewspaperXT saves valuable time and money and ensures that no last-minute mistakes are found in the final stage of a print job.

An XPort feature electronically exports a newspaper preview in HTML form. The HTML preview is exported in specified time increments or when the document is saved so that the job can be continuously monitored.

Access a thumbnail preview of the current newspaper pages, as they are being produced, and a full preview of each page. In addition, preview previously published issues; simply select a desired date, specify a range of pages to preview from previous editions, and the selected portion of the newspaper is accessible right in a web browser. NewspaperXT guarantees total control over a newspaper and provides updates on progress at all times.

A warning manager alerts the users to different problems through a customized warnings list. Based upon user-definable preferences, NewspaperXT displays warnings for missing picture files, overflow text boxes, cropped pictures, and pictures having a resolution under a predefined DPI value, a predefined color mode (RGB, HSB, LAB, grayscale, and so on), a specific file format (JPEG, TIFF, PICT, EPS, PSD, GIF, and so on), or nonuniform scaling ratios.

With NewspaperXT, receive automatic and customized warnings based on user-defined preferences noting different problems in a document's items. A mistake-free operation saves valuable time and money, and ends costly design and pre- and post-printing errors.

Manufacturer: Layout Limited

PageShot XS adds the ability to specify multiple pages, spreads, portions of pages, and multiple documents to be saved as EPSs from within QuarkXPress.

Specify multiple pages either by page number or by checking the all pages check box. The XTensions module provides several choices of EPS file formats and lets the user designate a certain area of the page to be saved as an EPS. PageShot XS can also save a text or picture box as an EPS.

Features:

• optionally save EPS at document close;

• hot folder to automate EPS creation;

• optionally include crop marks;

• flexible naming options;

• comprehensive logging;

• save a box or selection to an EPS; and

• optionally add page bleeds.

PageShot XS enables the user to define automatic naming rules when creating multiple EPSs from one or multiple documents.

PageShot XS supports unattended processing via the AutoShot feature which enables the user to set-up a hot folder to be checked at a user-specified interval. Files within the hot folder are exported to EPSs, optionally logging any errors for later review. Automatic processing has the capability to be integrated into large workflows.

The AutoShot feature uses a hot folder for input. Additional hot folders can be created by adding aliased folders to the hot folder.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

The PictureManager XTension is a must for any XPress user who works with graphics in their documents. It incorporates a comprehensive credits management utility that allows you to create caption boxes for graphics with ease. It also has an automatic picture updating facility.

PictureXTracker searches a selected folder or a selected volume for all picture files related to one or several documents. PictureXTracker searches the volumes selected or the subdirectories contained. This allows even complex file systems to be efficiently searched for picture data — if the picture exists anywhere in the selected directory system, PictureXTracker will find it and present it to the user.

Features:

• picture-data swap can be carried out simultaneously for several documents;

• embedded pictures in QuarkXPress documents can be edited separately;

• master pages can be included in the editing process;

• updates the assignment between the document and pictures with only a few mouse clicks, even for complex directory structures;

• allows the simultaneous reassignment of pictures to several documents;

• embedded pictures in QuarkXPress documents can be taken into account in different ways for editing with PictureXTracker; and

• master pages can be included in or excluded from the editing process.

Optional settings enable the user to locate pictures when file suffixes are to be taken into account or not, or the search is to be case sensitive, or whether the file used for assignment should always be the one with the latest date.

In QuarkXPress documents, embedded pictures can be included or excluded from the editing process. Reassignment can even be carried out for all open documents at once.

After PictureXTracker has searched the directory or volume, the status dialogue shows how many pictures have been found in the directory system searched. If required, a list of the missing pictures is generated.

If PictureXTracker finds several pictures with the same name in the searched directories during the search process, the user will individually decide which picture file is to be valid.

PictureXTracker loads the selected pictures into the document, and the document is updated. PictureXTracker enables the user to replace complete or partial picture paths with others. Using Macintosh or Windows path separators, even the platform can be changed when required.

Define certain settings to be taken into account for assignment. For instance, make the search case-sensitive, or if all open documents are to be searched at once, the relevant settings are defined. Use wildcards in the search field. PictureXTracker thus becomes an essential tool in handling QuarkXPress or InDesign documents as well as the related pictures in changing or multiple work environments.

Quark Print Collection is a feature-packed set of prepress tools for QuarkXPress(R) 7 and Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 7 and 8, the industry's most-popular publishing applications.

One of the most popular XTensions modules on the market today, Resize XT scales a group of page elements to a specified percentage just as is done in an illustration program. Scale proportionally keeping the horizontal and vertical ratio even, or amorphically choosing two different percentages for fitting the page elements into a design. Graphics, font sizes, text indents, border widths, and line thickness scale automatically along with the selected text and graphic boxes.

The resize xt tool, added to the QuarkXPress tool palette, enables the user to drag the group to the desired size for a perfect layout every time. Size the group visually with the resize xt tool or enter an exact percentage to indicate the desired size. Enter a new width and/or height for the group in order to get the elements exactly the right size.

Features:

• scaling percentages between 10% and the maximum size that does not place the group off the bottom of the page;

• scale proportionally;

• scale horizontal and vertical directions independently;

• scale and maintain the position of the pictures in the scaled boxes;

• scale the line and frame widths;

• scale the text size, even with mixed text sizes;

• scale grouped boxes as well as several selected (yet un-grouped) boxes;

• scale single boxes; and

• scalable paragraph rules, leading, tabs, and indents.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

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SpellBound augments QuarkXPress' spell-check features while checking the spelling of a single word, an active story, an entire document, or the text on master pages. SpellBound can access up to five auxiliary dictionaries and provides an exception dictionary (this is useful for implementing house styles to ensure words are always spelled in a certain manner).

Features:

• detects capitalization errors (e.g., will flag proper nouns not capitalized);

• uses a comprehensive, phonetically based algorithm when looking for alternative spellings to words;

• has a more precise definition of word boundaries (spell check words such as Ph.D. and QuarkXPress);

• enables the use as a guesser (interactively type in a guess and do a look up);

• highlight portions of compound words and get spelling suggestions on the constituent words;

• distinguishes between words with the same spelling but different capitalization;

• when replacing a misspelled word, optionally choose only to replace words with the same capitalization as the present word or all occurrences;

• allows for the choice of casting capitalization of the replacement word to that of the original;

• enables the user to edit any of the open auxiliary or exception dictionaries while doing a spell check;

• enables the user to enter non-alphabetic characters into the auxiliary or exception dictionaries (if nonstandard characters are entered into an English auxiliary dictionary, then this dictionary cannot be used with the internal QuarkXPress spell checker); and

• will spell check words that contain fi or fl ligatures.

Hyphenation XTensions modules and spelling XTensions modules are language specific and require QuarkXPress Passport or the QuarkXPress language for which you are purchasing. For instance, a German hyphenation XTensions module will only operate on the German version of QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport.

Available languages:

• Arabic;

• Danish;

• Dutch;

• English (British or U.S.);

• French;

• German;

• Italian;

• Norwegian;

• Russian;

• Spanish; and

• Swedish.

Additional dictionaries and word count:

• Biochemistry

• Geographical 50,000;

• Dental 12,000;

• Technical 50,000;

• Legal 26,000;

• Medical 125,000;

• Pharmaceutical 28,000;

• Wall Street 8,000;

• American Heritage Dictionary 450,000; and

• Webster's Dictionary 800,000.

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Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.