OPI_Swapper is a tool for managing low and high-resolution data in your layout program within the scope of an OPI system.

OverflowXTerminator is an XTensions module for QuarkXPress which provides a warning and a detailed listing of any overset text in a document. The XTensions module allows users to set preferences, such as the ability to test a document before printing, test before saving the page as an EPS, and to disallow printing if any overset text is detected.

The XTensions module can be distributed to printers or other users who will have a hand in the processing of the document, and provides a dialog box listing the status of the document and the page number where the overset text was found. With projects such as catalogs, where overset text is not necessarily apparent (e.g., item numbers or prices are dropped from the text box), OverflowXTerminator instantly alerts the user. Text can be automatically adjusted horizontally or vertically using the XTensions module, preventing the user from having to make manual adjustments.

Manufacturer: CodeWare

The MPS Page Printer module for QuarkXPress allows you to output each page or spread of a document in EPS or PostScript format. For EPS output, QuarkXPress users have the option of embedding fonts within the EPS files (requires the use of the free MPS Font Collector XTensions module). For PostScript output, you have the option of creating PostScript disk files, or printing directly to a PostScript printer. The handy “Page Selection” dialogue makes it easy to choose the pages or spreads you want to print, and the naming options give you control over the final output filename. Page Printer is a must-have for anyone working with third party imposition systems, or publishing PDF pages to the web.

PageShot enhances the QuarkXPress save page as eps command by including the ability to specify multiple pages or spreads to be saved as EPS files.

Specify multiple pages either by page number or by simply checking the all pages check box. The XTensions module provides several choices of EPS-file formats and enables the user to designate a certain area of the page to be saved as an EPS. Save a text or picture box as an EPS. Omit EPS or TIFF images, or omit them both to save disc space by minimizing file size.

This XTensions module will embed fonts, which in most cases saves several steps, resulting in increased efficiency. Store a set of preferences to be used as a style.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

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.

Top new features in PitStop Server 09:
• PitStop Server 09 is driven by the industry-standard Enfocus PDF preflight and auto-correction library that processes PDF files quicker and better than any other solution on the market. PitStop Server 09 takes full advantage of multiple processor or multiple-core systems. Its new predictive Action List engine that optimizes what parts of complex Action Lists need to be executed makes it faster than ever before.
• On the Mac, PitStop Server 09 is capable of behaving as a true background process. This processing mode makes PitStop Server 09 ideally suitable for use on a Mac XServe system in a true server configuration.
• To integrate PitStop Server 09 in a larger context, PitStop Server now comes with a command-line interface. The command-line interface is installed together with PitStop Server and is available to all PitStop Server 09 users at no additional cost.

PrintShop Mail is an application for variable printing. PrintShop Mail does only one job. It personalizes layouts. Using familiar layout and database tools, create the layout and manage the necessary data. Then let PrintShop Mail do the rest. The document layout is sent to the RIP only once, and variables (the personalization), text, or graphics are exchanged at high speed.

ProGrids is the ultimate utility for setting up professional QuarkXPress design grids with gutters, baseline grids, line counts, measurements, standard grids, and more. Set up any sort of columns, complete with exact gutters.

Features:

• margin-to-margin, edge-to-edge, and manual grids;

• independent control over horizontal and vertical grids and gutters;

• interlock allows certain fields to be locked and others to calculate automatically;

• choose from many colors;

• add measurements and line counts in the margins;

• powerful baseline-grid controls;

• create different master-page margins on each page or apply new margins to a page range;

• apply to page range or entire document;

• includes ten standard grids; and

• save, print, and add new grids to the menu.

ProGuides provides precise control over guide placement and guide characteristics, including color, locking, spread, crops, and rules. Places guides to the thousandth of a point. Set up hundreds of evenly spaced guides at once, or automatically divide a selected box into any number of rows or columns.

Enables the user to add tab markers (with user-defined offsets) to text boxes, making table creation a snap. Save entire sets of guides for use in other documents, or place crop marks at the end of placed guidelines.

Manufacturer: GLUON

ProBullets & Numbers was created to enable users to make bulleted and ordered (with sequential numbers/letters) lists in a snap. Anyone who has worked in QuarkXPress for any time knows that creating bulleted lists and ordered lists can be tedious, partially because of the precise control over these elements that using QuarkXPress provides. While these functions are commonplace in word processors and web-editing applications, they have always been absent in QuarkXPress — until now.

Features include:

• bullets applies current bullet settings to selected paragraphs;

• numbers applies current ordered-list settings to selected paragraphs;

• indent left applies current indent settings to selected paragraphs (moving down one level);

• indent right applies current indent settings to selected paragraphs (moving up one level); and

• Select from list of possible ordering methods and combine them.

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Using ProGreeker, the greek text menu item scrambles selected text. This proprietary technique leaves all the words right where they are on the page but makes them unreadable. This is useful for sending a dummy copy to the client, yet giving a clear picture of how the final piece will look. Once text has been greeked, un-greek it by selecting the text and using the same text-menu item. Not only will this save time when going to finals (one is not stuck replacing ancient Lorem Ipsum copy), but there cannot be any layout surprises because everyone in the production process will have been using the real copy.

The ProGreeker interface makes it easy to greek text document-wide by entering in the parameters of what sizes of text should be rendered unreadable. Greek live copy instead of using Lorem Ipsum or squiggles. The live copy will maintain all paragraph and line breaks. With this patented method, preserve the initial caps on words for an even more authentic look. Show clients the real layout without getting into the specifics of copy.

Un-greek returns the text to the original copy and saves a lot of time over Lorem Ipsum and other methods — get right back to working with the real copy instead of having to swap it back in.

Manufacturer: GLUON

Features:

• ProScale EV — scales groups and documents using IntelliScale. Undo and redo on Command-Z. Fit-to-menus, text fitting, and special palette;

• Cropster — places crops, registration marks, fold marks (with a fold calculator), guides arrows, and much more! Save setting as presets to share with other users;

• Linkster — unlinks and re-links text in a variety of ways. Great for large documents that are reflow each time the text chain is edited;

• Cloner** — accurate copy and paste and inter-document copying of selections or whole pages, or split documents into multiple documents;

• ProGrids & Guides — comprehensive tool for placing, saving, and printing 23 colors of guides, create design grids, line counts, and special margins, for instance;

• ProGreeker — special greeking and un-greeking utility provides exact word breaks and fonts and easy switch back to live copy;

• iDropper — multipurpose eyedropper tool copies colors from pictures or copies attributes from boxes and applies them to other boxes;

• QC*** — on-the-fly quality control checks and fixes documents;

• QC Collect* and ** — preflighting, collects, compresses, and sends documents and optionally collects multiple documents with shared fonts and graphics in one logical package;

• Reporter * and ** — full-featured report utility for documents with picture reports that show thumbnails and every detail about the pictures, story reports with useful word and letter counts, and style reports that detail every aspect of styles;

• DragIn* — full-featured drag-and-drop can make catalogs or drag images one at a time or folders at a time right into a QuarkXPress document, optionally automatically add captions to pictures, or other options allow dragging right out of browsers;

• Outlines** — Similar to creating outlines in Illustrator, this tool is great for logos and items where including the font is not optimum;

• ShapeMaker** — create all manner of shapes within QuarkXPress such as waves, stars, spirographs and spirals;

• SpotCheck** — changes process colors to spot colors automatically (and vice versa) and deletes unused colors from a finished document;

• BumpCity* and ** — ultra-handy tool palette for everyday adjustments of almost anything; and

• NaviZoom* and ** — create slide shows from QuarkXPress document pages, and navigate and zoom into documents.

*Not available in Windows ProPack.

**Not currently included with QuarkXPress v6 package.

***Will not be available for QuarkXPress v6.

Manufacturer: GLUON

The only scaling tool with IntelliScale Technology which allows QuarkXPress users to scale non-proportionally, without distorting type and graphics, using a click-and-drag tool or from the dialog. Scale entire multipage documents in one click (including page size and style sheets).

Combining document scaling and nonproportional scaling yields incredible time savings. For instance, scale an 8.5" by 11" document to a 7.5" by 11" document in a single action. ProScale's IntelliScale Technology scales to non-constrained proportions while keeping text and graphics proportional.

Features:

• document-wide scaling;

• choose specific elements to scale throughout the document, or in a multipage or single-page document;

• choose to scale just the text boxes, text size, line weight, style sheets, graphics, tabs, and so on, or any combination thereof;

• fit-to-column and fit-to-page;

• step-and-repeat scaling;

• choice of scaling from different item locations;

• unlimited number of items on a page to scale;

• resize in one step, quickly and accurately;

• scale grouped or un-grouped selections, or any combination thereof;

• scale combinations of grouped and un-grouped selections;

• palette-based scaling tool; and

• resize any group of items by simply dragging the corners or sides.

fit-to popup menus: to quickly fit something to a column width, a certain page size, or a business card size, fit-to is the quickest way. Imagine having an 8.5" x 11" document and in one menu selection the entire document transforms to tabloid size, perfectly formatted. Fit complex text passages exactly to a box or a box to the text — select the text and ProScale will do the rest. Fit a box to a picture, automatically.

Features of v6:

• QuarkXPress 5.0 and 4.1 native;

• new fitting technology to fit text to box, fit box to text, and fit box to picture; and

• scales native elements such as tables, web items, and anchored groups (from within QuarkXPress 5.X only).

Manufacturer: GLUON

QC provides on-the-fly quality control which enables users to stay on top of each document's quality for the entire life cycle of the document, not only at the very end of the cycle.

Among many firsts, QC is also the first to offer Merge Collect. This original function collects multiple related documents without creating redundant font and graphic files, making for much more compact archives.

Features:

• nicely organized tabbed dialog;

• trigger tab allows auto-triggered QC tests on certain events such as importing picture or saving, or use as a reminder;

• toggle whole lists or individual items;

• hundreds of things to check for;

• save complex settings as easy-to-use presets;

• sleek look and feel;

• super-handy QC palette with category column, clearly indented sub-info, remove items from list, call QC dialog button, and auto and dialog fix buttons;

• includes QC User Version (v5) which allows managers to control who gets to change and create QC presets; and

• includes QC Collect, the Collection Bin for the desktop and the free Bureau Utility

QC was first to bring a new kind of quality control to QuarkXPress users. It's been greatly improved over the years to help eliminate problems before they happen. Use QC throughout the life of a job interactively to check QuarkXPress documents for integrity. Save most of the time that is wasted between production studios and proof reading by running a QC check. QC will catch many of the problems that a proof reader would normally flag. Problems such as a space before a comma, misaligned boxes, text outside of live area, and many more, are found instantly. As a native XTensions module for QuarkXPress, QC quickly generates an interactive list of problems. Click on an item in the list and QC transports the view to that part of the document, where the user will find the problem highlighted. Once the document is perfect, easily collect it for output using QC Collect, along with graphics and fonts used including those in EPS files.

Collect Features:

• powerful QC Collect technology;

• advanced collect methods;

• pre-collect dialog shows the user what is going to happen and enables the user to alter it;

• collect all open documents function;

• improved checking while collecting;

• post-processing allows the user to stuff, BinHex, and FTP files directly (v5) ;

• QC Bureau Utility (free, and for use OS 9 and X for Quark 4 and 5 documents) allows service providers or departments to see what QC result was last produced; and

• drag and drop pass/fail check for one or many QuarkXPress documents, shows details of last.

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Manufacturer: GLUON

QC Collect v5 provides all the options to create a professional output package. It also neatly organizes fonts and graphics into folders and then re-links collected document to those files.

Now QC Collect merges jobs to collect multiple documents with shared graphics and fonts, eliminating excess folder creation.

With QC (sold separately), QC Collect will run any of QC's powerful checks as a preflight or last-minute quality check. Be absolutely certain the document is ready for print.

qc collection bin sits on the desktop and enables the user to collect multiple documents at once. Also, re-collect any document by dragging back to the collect column. Generates a collection status report.

New features include:

• new collect methods;

• pre-collect dialog box provides preview of what is going to happen and enables the user to alter it;

• collects all open documents;

• improved preflight; and

• post-processing compresses, BinHexes, and FTPs files directly.

Manufacturer: GLUON

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.