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

Enfocus Instant PDF 08 makes producing press-ready PDFs easy for creative profes-sionals. Using award-winning Enfocus Certified PDF technology, it's the simplest and most reliable way to create PDFs that comply with your print or advertisement vendors' specifications.

Keeping track of document revisions isn't easy, and every time a document is printed out it adds to the puzzling paper trail around the office. There's no need to wonder whose document is coming out of the printer. Why is this JobSlug Pro and not just a 6.0 upgrade of JobSlug? JobSlug Pro has the following enhancements over JobSlug:

• Individual JobSlug information can be applied to a text box.

• TimeStamp is incorporated into JobSlug Pro.

• Option to have labels excluded.

• Job Information tracking.

• Seven customizable data fields.

• Visual Indicators allow you to easily identify JobSlugs.

• JobSlugs can be locked to certain computers that allow the JobSlug to be updated only when it is on certain computers.

JobSlug Pro is a new way of creating job slugs for your jobs. JobSlug Pro attaches a self-updating slug to a QuarkXPress document that includes the last time a file was modified, when it was last output, and which fonts and colors were used in the document. The slug updates whenever the document is printed so the information that appears on your printed copy is as current as possible. JobSlug Pro enables the user to attach full slugs containing job information to text boxes or to create slugs with selection document information.

JobSlug Pro can display these items:

• user-defined data about the project;

• client name;

• job number;

• job name;

• artist name;

• job-in date;

• due date;

• notes;

• document data extracted from the project;

• imported graphics;

• time of last print;

• fonts used;

• spot colors;

• time of last save;

• project or document name; and

• seven user-definable fields for custom data.

JobSlug Pro includes a template for entering job data in one convenient dialog. Job-information management is easy with JobSlug Pro, and it incorporates another Vision's Edge XTensions module, TimeStamp, making it useful for adding formatted data and a time stamp to a text box. Time stamps update only when the document is saved. JobSlugs' slugs can be simple, unformatted text boxes that require little set up or they can be complex layouts incorporating individual JobSlug data.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

Keeping track of document revisions isn't easy, and every time a document is printed out it adds to the puzzling paper trail around the office. There's no need to wonder whose document is coming out of the printer. Why is this JobSlug Pro and not just a 6.0 upgrade of JobSlug? JobSlug Pro has the following enhancements over JobSlug:

• Individual JobSlug information can be applied to a text box.

• TimeStamp is incorporated into JobSlug Pro.

• Option to have labels excluded.

• Job Information tracking.

• Seven customizable data fields.

• Visual Indicators allow you to easily identify JobSlugs.

• JobSlugs can be locked to certain computers that allow the JobSlug to be updated only when it is on certain computers.

JobSlug Pro is a new way of creating job slugs for your jobs. JobSlug Pro attaches a self-updating slug to a QuarkXPress document that includes the last time a file was modified, when it was last output, and which fonts and colors were used in the document. The slug updates whenever the document is printed so the information that appears on your printed copy is as current as possible. JobSlug Pro enables the user to attach full slugs containing job information to text boxes or to create slugs with selection document information.

JobSlug Pro can display these items:

• user-defined data about the project;

• client name;

• job number;

• job name;

• artist name;

• job-in date;

• due date;

• notes;

• document data extracted from the project;

• imported graphics;

• time of last print;

• fonts used;

• spot colors;

• time of last save;

• project or document name; and

• seven user-definable fields for custom data.

JobSlug Pro includes a template for entering job data in one convenient dialog. Job-information management is easy with JobSlug Pro, and it incorporates another Vision's Edge XTensions module, TimeStamp, making it useful for adding formatted data and a time stamp to a text box. Time stamps update only when the document is saved. JobSlugs' slugs can be simple, unformatted text boxes that require little set up or they can be complex layouts incorporating individual JobSlug data.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

With JobXPort, put an end to costly design and pre- and post-printing errors. JobXPort saves valuable time and money and ensures that no last-minute mistakes are found in the final stage of a print job.

Easily link or unlink any text selection or entire documents. Linkster instantly unlinks chains of text boxes, leaving all the text in the same text boxes. Linkster also gives a useful range of options for unlinking as many boxes at a time as needed.

Link and unlink text boxes without disturbing the text flow or placement, and handy keyboard shortcuts make it a snap. Linkster now allows the user to specify noncontiguous pages to be linked or re-linked. It uses the same method that the QuarkXPress print dialog uses. Specify whether pages are sequence or section-based. Linkster is also QuarkXPress 4.X native so it is much faster.

Manufacturer: GLUON

LinkUP! enables a user to connect QuarkXPress to a database. For different people this will mean different things. For a catalogue publisher this will mean they can automatically update all of the pricing, text, and picture information in a QuarkXPress document in minutes instead of weeks. Financiers can create styled reports that reflect up-to-the-minute market prices. Directory publishers can automate the entire building process of QuarkXPress documents.

Whatever the application, LinkUP! works efficiently and accurately updating any kind of data into documents and even sends data from the documents back to the database.

LinkUP! is an XTensions module for QuarkXPress. This means that when installed, LinkUP! adds features to the QuarkXPress menu.

Although LinkUP! has the ability to link with some of the most advanced databases currently available, this doesn't make it a solution that is complex or even difficult to use. Take a person with a database that is simply a spreadsheet file and they don't have a network connection between their QuarkXPress computer and the one holding their spreadsheet. LinkUP! is just as powerful and useful in this scenario as it is for a hundred-user site publishing directly from a corporate mainframe.

QuarkXPress and a data source of some description are all that's needed to use LinkUP! It works with existing QuarkXPress documents. The user need only to identify any items within the documents that need to be linked to the database. Alternatively, LinkUP! can be used to automate the complete production of data-intensive publications.

The benefits of LinkUP! will vary depending on the type of publication produced and, with it, the problems the user is trying to solve.

Benefits:

• time savings and increased productivity;

• accuracy is paramount, such as when publishing financial data or pricing information, and since LinkUP! is taking information directly from the data source, the data published will be as correct as the database;

• no need for proofing or re-keying;

• extremely cost-effective solution; and

• if the data is time sensitive, such as catalogue pricing, LinkUP! enables the user to make competitive decisions far closer to print deadlines.

Features:

• provides transparent hot links between QuarkXPress and any database;

• allows on-demand updating of text, numbers, and images;

• can be used to create a database from existing QuarkXPress documents;

• generates multilevel indexes and table of contents across multiple publications;

• automatic creation of conditional headers and footers;

• direct support for relational databases;

• browse, query, and search within database from QuarkXPress;

• extraction of geometric information for analysis;

• character-translation tables;

• conditional updating of picture-information export;

• full AppleScript support;

• will work with virtually every database in the world, regardless of platform;

• utility application accesses ASCII delimited data, though a live link directly to the database is preferred and which will remove the need for an interim ASCII text file; and

• supports ODBC and can connect to any ODBC-compliant database through the ODBC language.

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Manufacturer: MC Research

LinkUP! Workgroup is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that enables you to connect an existing QuarkXPress document to a flat-file database.

Features:

• use tagging to link items in the QuarkXPress document directly to database fields;

• data can be updated bi-directionally, so data is always accurate;

• not necessary to store key data into the document since it can be updated with clean data from the data source;

• update the data automatically to save input hours; and

• make edits right up to the deadline and rebuild the entire document in minutes rather than weeks.

As with LinkUP! Enterprise, users range from global companies to one-man operations. LinkUP! Workgroup produces all types of documents, such as: catalogues, travel brochures, price guides, directories, financial-services literature, reference books, magazines, product labeling, diaries, direct marketing, property listings, reports, television and radio guides, and show guides.

Create a flat-file database from existing QuarkXPress documents. Use LinkUP! Workgroup to handle character-set issues between platforms and provide conditional updating. There's also picture-information support enabling the user to maintain a database of the images used in the QuarkXPress documents.

Manufacturer: MC Research

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.

Users of the Quark Print Collection and ALAP's Imposer products* can now crossgrade to a product that supports QuarkXPress 8 and save $201.00 off the normal price of MadeToPrint XT.

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.

MIF Filter is currently the only way to exchange documents between QuarkXPress and Adobe Frame Maker. With MIF Filter installed, QuarkXPress opens FrameMaker MIF documents the same as another QuarkXPress document. MIF Filter also enables export from QuarkXPress to FrameMaker. All elements (large tables, page layout, graphic objects, styles, colors, and so on) are maintained during conversion.

MIF Filter was created as a professional tool with the convenience of its users in mind. It's easy to install, easy to buy, and easy to use. Use favorite FrameMaker documents with the added advantage of the QuarkXPress environment. With MIF Filter, never again to do the same work twice; once for each application.

Due to differences between QuarkXPress and FrameMaker, some manual adjusting might be needed after conversion.

Features supported during the conversion:

• page layout, including master pages;

• color and style definitions;

• anchored and unanchored pictures;

• tables;

• conversion of unsupported features (e.g., side heads, frames); and

• converts files between different platforms.

Manufacturer: DTP Tools (Goldwein Research Ltd.)

Multi Style is a must for everyone who works with tables, ad listings, catalogs, brochures, magazines, newspapers and other complex formatting activities. It allows users to swiftly copy and apply complex formatting. With Multi Style XT, once the typographic settings (multistyles) have been defined, they can be instantly copied and pasted onto unformatted text. Using Multi Style II, complex text formatting can be defined in a paragraph style and the formatting of a sequence of paragraphs can be copied onto another sequence of paragraphs.

MultiBox XT is a QuarkXPress XTensions module that automates the creation of complex boxed ads within QuarkXPress. For real-estate guides, auto-trader books, or any publication that contains a mixture of display ads and multiple-element ads, MultiBox XT saves time and money during the hardest part of the production process.

Used in conjunction with Page Director Ad Layout System (ALS) or Classified Layout System (CLS) (both sold separately and one is required), MultiBox XT is one of the most powerful automation tools available today.

Workflow is easy: first, plan the publication in ALS or CLS by deciding where all of the ads will run in the book, this is where ALS and CLS shine. Send the finished ALS or CLS file to QuarkXPress. MultiBox XT will import the ALS or CLS document and make all of the ad boxes. Once all of the boxes have been created, MultiBox XT will use the user-defined details about each box's layout, and insert all of the right pictures and text to complete the full content automatically. The final result is a QuarkXPress document with all of the ads and their parts — fully built and ready to print.

MultiBox XT uses a library of layouts to determine how the content of each ad should look. Tell MultiBox XT that some of the items may only appear in some of the ads (e.g., a star burst indicating a new product could appear in the top-right corner of only those ads that are listed as new). MultiBox XT can even adjust the dimensions of the content depending upon the size of the text for the description.

Since MultiBox XT uses standard, tab-delimited import files it can work with virtually any front-end, order-entry system. The more robust the system, the more MultiBox XT can automate the production workflow. Plus, since it enhances the power of ALS and CLS, use the flexible functionality of MultiBox XT to perform specialized functions such as folio creation, reader service numbers, or even inline text references.

Manufacturer: Managing Editor Inc.

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

ODT ImportXT for QuarkXPress 8 give users the ability to import native .odt documents directly into QuarkXPress.