Crops XT creates crop and registration marks as well as color and grey bars around any selected object or group on a QuarkXPress document page, in one easy step.

For additional savings, check out the bundle: Dashes & SpellBound bundle.

The Dashes XTensions module provides high-quality hyphenation for QuarkXPress text. Its aim and purpose is to provide a tool that improves the appearance and readability of a user's page by inserting hyphens which are inconspicuous, so as not to disturb the flow or meaning in the story.

The internal-hyphenation code that is used in this XTensions module has been licensed from Circle Noetic Services, thus, the user is guaranteed the same high standard of hyphen breaks as is provided by their renowned hyphenation products.

Features:

• inserts discretionary hyphens into a selection of text, the current text box, or the complete document, and when inserting hyphens, the user-specified auto-hyphenation rules are fully obeyed;

• removes discretionary hyphens from a selection of text, the current text box, or the entire document (if the way the XTensions module hyphenates a word is undesirable, enter it into a custom Dashes exceptions dictionary);

• provides each Dashes hyphen with a stylistic ranking, this allows the exclusion of hyphens that are not up to the stylistic quality the user specifies;

• import and export hyphenation exceptions lists into and out of the XTensions module;

• will correctly hyphenate words that contain ligatures;

• as all the hyphens inserted are stored as discretionary hyphens within the document, the document will not reflow, when opened or printed on another machine;

• will correctly hyphenate the document, regardless of the system or program language; and

• provides a linguistically based algorithm that puts in over 99% of the possible hyphens with over 99% accuracy in all the languages offered.

Supported Languages: Arabic, Bela Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French (European and Canadian), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmal and Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss, and Turkish.

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.

Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

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

Bundle includes Dashes XTension and SpellBound.

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Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

The complete bi-directional connection between your database and QuarkXPress.

Manufacturer: GASSENHUBER Systementwicklung

(Not available for electronic delivery.) StockLayouts' high-end graphic designs of customizable templates for users of professional layout and graphics applications provide fast and affordable solutions for producing exceptional marketing materials.

StockLayouts offers predesigned templates for brochures, newsletters, stationery and logos, postcards, ads, and more. The high-resolution layouts are built to exacting technical standards for commercial printing. Layout files are available in QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, and Adobe Illustrator formats for Mac or Windows users.

The design templates are royalty-free. Use them repeatedly without restriction and have the unlimited creative freedom to make changes.

Features:

• 126 design templates, completely designed and ready to go;

• 613 graphic elements including stock photos, logo designs and artwork;

• exceptional agency-quality designs;

• royalty-free license — repeatedly use layouts, photos, and artwork;

• mix and match artwork, stock photos, and layouts to create unique designs without starting from scratch;

• choice of professional page layout formats: QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe PageMaker, or Adobe Illustrator for Mac or Windows;

• fully customizable layout files with editable linked graphic files;

• high-resolution, royalty-free stock photos and artwork;

• photos are CMYK and 300 DPI;

• illustration and clipart graphics are scalable EPS;

• commercial press-ready files;

• colors accurately defined with bleeds pulled out and folds set up; and

• suggested copy content for headlines and subheads.

Note: Adobe Illustrator version does not include editable text boxes. Type has been converted to outlines.

Manufacturer: StockLayouts LLC

Import native .docx and .odt documents directly into QuarkXPress 8

Import native .docx documents directly into QuarkXPress 8

explainIt will annotate QuarkXPress documents with style-sheet and image-usage information. This simple tool places small contextual labels next to styled text or image boxes, making understanding a document a breeze. No more scrolling around a document, clicking in paragraphs to find out what style-sheet, font, or attribute is applied. A must have for teams working on the design of new publications.

Features:

explainIt can label:

• paragraph style-sheet usage;

• character style-sheet usage;

• local text attributes;

• text box and story text counts; and

• image box specifications.

explainIt also generates lists for:

• style-sheets;

• colors;

• text counts; and

• images.

Labels and reports have a wide range of settings in order to suit most content and display needs.

Manufacturer: ALEF

Each language-support package is sold separately and is only required for ArabicXT v6.x.

FarsiXT provides the Persian language in QuarkXPress. It is sold as an addition to ArabicXT (serial number required) or as a stand-alone application. Farsi fonts are included with FarsiXT.

Jawi is the Malaysian language. JawiXT is sold as additional support for ArabicXT or as a stand-alone application. Jawi fonts are included.

HebrewXT requires Arabic XT and the Hebrew Language kit from Apple Computer. There are no fonts included with Hebrew XT, rather it uses an application, Font Converter, to convert any Hebrew system font to an HXt font that will work with the Hebrew XT.

FitinXT, a new QuarkXPress and QuarkXPress Passport XTensions module promises to make work ultimately more efficient with features that make complicated tasks exceedingly simple, from instant rule creation to automatic text fit to display of text overset.

Features:

• quickly, with the click of a mouse, create inter-column and inter-box rules, which are also easily edited;

• fit text automatically to an existing text box or line, without having to resize the text box;

• paste boxes at the same location on different pages, as well as in different documents;

• find boxes with text overset;

• click on an overset mark at the text-box corner to temporarily display overset text;

• be warned of boxes with text overset when printing a document; and

• count words and lines of an article.

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 $75.

Manufacturer: Layout Limited

The FlexoPrint XTensions module is designed for use in flexographic printing where it is often necessary to adjust the horizontal and vertical scale of a printed page. This XTensions module allows the user to specify a percentage of horizontal and vertical scale for a document which will be applied at print time. The original QuarkXPress document remains unchanged.

Manufacturer: Meadows Information Systems, LLC

FlexScale scales a document as it is output to a printer. The vertical- and horizontal-scaling percentages are independent of each other so a document may be scaled vertically and/or horizontally. The XTensions module scales printed output between 50% and 150%. Optionally, specify decimal percentages for precision scaling.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

FlightAlert is a QuarkXPress XTensions module operating in the background and scanning for specific preflighting issues on Open and/or Save and/or Save As and/or Print and/or Close. Alerts are only displayed when a problem is detected. This product is designed for a pressured production or prepress environment to pick up key RIP killers and film burners without being obtrusive.

The user can designate that the XTensions module's monitory mechanism should be activated after a document is opened, when a document is closed, at print time, when saving as an EPS, when saving or saving as, and/or during FlightAlert's Collect for Output routine.

The alert dialog can optionally make the user aware of the presence of the following items in QuarkXPress documents:

• RGB, TIFF, JPEG, or EPS graphics;

• 1-bit TIFFs and EPSs;

• grayscale and EPS graphics;

• PICTs;

• empty picture boxes;

• missing or modified graphics;

• text-overflow items;

• picture boxes containing TIFFs that have a background color of None (these can cause jaggies);

• spot colors used;

• items that have a rotation of non-90¯ incremental angles;

• items that have their printing suppressed;

• graphic files that are larger or smaller than a specified size; and/or

• graphics that have a definable file extension.

The Collect for Output (c.f.o.) option enables the user to select a document and specify a destination disc and/or folder for the file. The document and all its linked graphics (including DCS files if required), screen and printer fonts (including fonts used in EPS graphics) will be transferred.

When copying a file, the user may select to also collect the preferences file and any other required files at the same time. If any linked graphic or printer fonts are missing, FlightAlert provides an auto-find utility which is a high-performance search tool that will scan through predefined volumes or folders for the required files. The user can completely control the process by specifying default-search paths.

If desired, all the files collected will be compressed into a self-extracting archive (bundle). The naming convention used for the bundle will immediately identify whether it is complete or if font or required graphics are missing.

When moving files, the XTensions module will also optionally present a special-instructions dialog which allows the user to direct the receiver as to what print medium, film setting, line-screen, and other settings to use. Shipping and general-comment fields are also provided. This feature will show what color plates are required for each individual page, and therefore will accurately instruct as to what plates are to be output on a page-by-page basis. All items in the special-instructions dialog are user configurable — decide exactly what options are available in the popup menus that appear. The batch-C.F.O. option enables the user to select a number of files which can be moved at the same time.

Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

Fluid Mask enables the user to cut out images with results never thought possible — tools like this will change the nature of object extraction forever.

Fonts and problems — these two tend to be synonyms in the publishing world. It is often difficult to track what fonts are needed in order to successfully output a file on an imagesetter, laser printer, or digital proofer. FontIncluder 2/XT ends this nightmare.

FontIncluder 2/XT embeds TrueType, Type 1, and Type 3 fonts into EPS and PostScript files. Drag and drop EPS or DCS files (DCS 1.0 multiple file, and DCS 2.0 single and multiple file) onto the FontIncluder 2/XT icon.

FontIncluder 2/XT not only embeds TrueType and Type 3 fonts but will also embed Windows fonts into a file on the Macintosh. The Windows version will embed Mac fonts into a file on the Windows platform as well.

FontIncluder 2/XT checks any PostScript file (e.g., PostScript output printed to a file as well as EPS files of any nesting level) for needed fonts. If any fonts are not yet included (as is usually the case with standard EPS files), FontIncluder 2/XT scans folders (that are predefined) for the respective font files and includes these into the PostScript or EPS file. Whenever such a PostScript file is output afterward, there will be no missing font, and thus, no substitution with Courier will occur.

Though in some cases it is not absolutely clear what licensing agreements and copyright laws apply for this embedding procedure, most font vendors, such as Adobe, AGFA, and Linotype, explicitly allow for embedding fonts into a PostScript file.

Although FontIncluder 2/XT is a stand-alone application and a QuarkXPress XTensions module, it must be stored in the XTension folder within the QuarkXPress folder when driven by MadeToPrint XT (sold separately).

Manufacturer: callas software gmbh

FRAEMZ PS XT is a collection of decorative borders which install directly into QuarkXPress. Once installed the user can modify the size and shape of the border. With FRAEMZ PS XT place dynamically sized border graphics that are custom-tailored to the size and design of elements in their page layout.

FRAEMZ PS XT is not clip art, but rather once installed an integral part of the program.

Features:

• 404 high-resolution PostScript borders;

• CMYK color compatibility for process separations;

• high-resolution PostScript output;

• intuitive and efficient user interface;

• precise selection of border parameters using scroll bars or numeric fields;

• selectable drop-shadow effect;

• resize corner and side elements of the border independently; and

• place corner or side elements of the border independently.

FRAEMZ PS XT contains 404 proportional borders that scale without distortion to any size and print out. The libraries are resident within QuarkXPress and can be easily accessed from the document, using only a few clicks of the mouse. Use FRAEMZ PS XT to enhance newspapers, yellow pages, newsletters, ads, and any other documents produced with QuarkXPress and FRAEMZ PS XT is easy to use.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

FullSwitch

FullSwitch is ideally placed to help you reclaim your time to be creative and help your customers. It is a robust automation product that is easy to install and use. Like the entry-level LightSwitch product, FullSwitch offers file reception through FTP and email, sorting of files based on file type and naming conventions and automatic email notifications to customers.

Elpical Claro Single 7

Elpical Claro Single in an integration module for automatic image processing fits seamlessly into Enfocus Switch®. Through its command line interface it can also easily be integrated in home-grown workflows.

Claro technology, based on Claro Individual Image Analysis, automatically and individually analyses images of varying type and quality. It delivers information on parameters such as sharpness, contrast, brightness, colour balance, natural greens and blues, skin tones, Exif information, etc. It then solves possible issues and automatically delivers consistently superb image quality.

Manufacturer: Enfocus

FullSwitch

FullSwitch is ideally placed to help you reclaim your time to be creative and help your customers. It is a robust automation product that is easy to install and use. Like the entry-level LightSwitch product, FullSwitch offers file reception through FTP and email, sorting of files based on file type and naming conventions and automatic email notifications to customers.

MadeToPrint Auto for InDesign or QuarkXPress

Stop wasting time, paper and ink – print automated and flawlessly with InDesign or QuarkXPress

Besides providing all the features of the standard version, MadeToPrint Auto for InDesign or QuarkXPress runs hotfolder-based and offers unmatched power regarding automated printing, proofing or file exporting. Files are processed completely unattended through printing queues—24 hours a day, all around the clock. MadeToPrint Auto helps to realise efficient print production, wherever large quantities of InDesign or QuarkXPress files have to be processed.

Manufacturer: Enfocus

A palette displays the status of imported images (OK, modified, or missing), and can be used to replace an image with another (even of a different type), keeping the same characteristics (position, scale, rotation, and so on).

Applies case conversion to selected text boxes maintaining accented characters.

Menu allows the user to separate all colors in the current document and to convert text boxes to picture boxes and picture boxes to text boxes (disabled in QuarkXPress 4.0).

Manufacturer: Qolmamit