Bob(tm) XTension The Bob XTension includes Colour Drag, which enables you to apply a colour to box backgrounds or frames by dragging a swatch from the Colours palette and releasing it over the item. Bob also contains a Go-to-page feature that provides apop-up display of icons that represent the pages of a document. The Line Check feature searches for widows, orphans, loose justification, hyphenated lines, and text box overflows. Bobzilla! for QuarkXPress 3.2 BOBZILLA contains the following collection of features previously found in Bob, Son of Bob and other QuarkFreebies, plus a new SUPER STEP & REPEAT... - Go-to-page displays a pop-up of the pages in your document - Line Check automatically searches for typographically undesirable lines - Super Step-and-Repeat is a sophisticated method for repeating objects on a page - Full Resolution TIFF Output adjusts the rendering of TIFF pictures for sharper output on your printer. ChangeCase XTension The ChangeCase XTension allows QuarkXPress users to change the case of characters in text boxes to either uppercase or lowercase by choosing the appropriate menu item from the Utilities menu. Click'X Clik'X is a small floating palette that gives fast and easy access to 3items in the View menu of QuarkXPress : show/hide guidelines, snap or not to guides, show/hide the document layout. In addition it allows you to: deselect/re-select the last known box (text/image/line) without having to click in the pasteboard or on some free space in the layout -- zoom in & out on the currently selected box, or the current page if nothing is selected Cool Blends The Cool Blends XTension enhances QuarkXPress 3.1's ability to create blends as backgrounds for picture and text boxes. The Cool Blends XTension adds five new blends to the Colour palette's Blends pop-up menu: Mid-Linear Blend, Rectangular Blend, Diamond Blend, Circular Blend, and Full Circular Blend. fcsAngles 1.5 fcsAngles v1.5 gives QuarkXPress users the ability to change the screen angles to specify custom CMYK angles and frequencies to use for printing, thus preventing moire patterns. The dialog box has three options for angles; XPress Default, Agfa Standard or custom (allows you to specify your own angles). FeaturesPlus FeaturesPlus adds eight new features to QuarkXPress. Included are the ability to create typographer's prices and fractions automatically. There is also a Value Converter palette that will convert values among any of the six measurement systems. The Windows feature provides a submenu that lists all open QuarkXPress documents. Choosing a name from the list brings the document to the front. GuideLiner 1.0 Guideliner is a Quark Xtension that allows the user to exactly place guides by typing the position of the guide as opposed to dragging. We found this useful because Quark Doesn't allow the user to place exactly in some zoom resolutions. Data is placed in the xtension as you would any other number in Quark. This Xtension should be compatible with QX 3.0/3.1. Multiple Master Utilities The Multiple Masters Utilities (MMU) XTension enables QuarkXPress to support Multiple Master fonts in three ways. The MMU will automatically create Multiple Master instances when you open a QuarkXPress document. The MMU also enables QuarkXPress to create font instances found in EPS files when printing. The MMU XTension also provides for the Multiple Master Font Creator. Under the Utilities menu, you'll find an item called Font Creator. Selecting it will open up the Font Creator dialog box, which enables you to create and delete Multiple Master instances from within QuarkXPress. Network Connection Network Connection provides users with the ability to send text, picture files, and messages to other QuarkXPress users over a network. Notes XTension for QuarkXPress 3.2 The Notes XTension(tm) displays a notes palette so you can enter and display non-printing notes in a QuarkXPress document. You can - Enter a note up to 255 characters - Cut/Copy and Paste text back and forth between notes and documents - Show or hide notes in a document - Move backward or forward through the notes in a document - See a visible marker where a note exists - View date, time, and author information with each note entry. - Notes are compatible with notes produced by the Quark Publishing System. Nudger Nudger is a palette that can be used to set the nudge amount in QuarkXPress 3.1. To use Nudger, open the palette from View menu. Enter the nudge amount in the palette and press enter. Optionally, you can use the popup menu to set the nudge amount. That is all there is to this. pantone(r) Colours The PANTONE Colours file adds three PANTONE colour matching systems to QuarkXPress: PANTONE Process Colours, PANTONE ProSim, and PANTONE Uncoated. Photoshop(r) Plug-In XTension Photoshop Plug-In allows you to take advantage of many Adobe Photoshop plug-in modules from within QuarkXPress, making it easy to import pictures from scanners, video recorders, compressed files, and other sources. PM Import b2 The Aldus PageMaker(r) Import XTension was created by Quark so that documents created in PageMaker version 4.0 and 4.2 can be opened in QuarkXPress 3.1. This beta copy of the Aldus PageMaker XTension is provided for testing purposes only. No guarantee of any kind is made regarding its fitness for any purpose other than testing. Prepare for Service Bureau The prepare for Service Bureau XTension was designed to eliminate common errors that occur when taking QuarkXPress documents to service bureaus. Prepare for Service Bureau includes a Document Statistics file that provides the service bureau with all the information necessary to output your document successfully. Professional Colour Toolkit The Professional Colour Toolkit for full PANTONE(r) Colour support is aControl Panel device which fully manages PANTONE Colour information both for RGB colour monitors as well as CMYK output. SetInset SetInset can set the inset individually for the four sides of a text box instead of only a single setting. Set Reg. Length This XTension allows the user to set the length of registration marks. (Registration Marks can be checked on or off in the Print dialog.) Son of Bob(tm) XTension Son of Bob provides a menu entry that lets you turn on "smart quotes," which automatically change inch marks to typographer's curly quotes. Son of Bob also provides a way to change document view size with the keyboard, send ASCII PostScript to printers, eliminate unwanted halftoning in TIFF-file output, and multiply or divide values in any numeric entry box. SpeedOpen XTension SpeedOpen adds a submenu to the Utilities menu that contains the two items Settings... and Hyphenation language.... The first item enables you to define a default behaviour for differing preferences, the second item lets you set the hyphenation language in your document to the language of your QuarkXPress version. Stars and Stripes The Stars and Stripes XTension adds two new features to brighten up documents created in QuarkXPress. Custom Underline allows you to create unique, color underlines. The Starburst feature adds a new tool which allows you to draw a polygon picture box in the shape of a starburst. SXetch Pad Viewer XT & Sample Doc This file includes the SXetch Pad Viewer XT which is an XTension that will allow users to view documents that contain SXetch Pad items that haven't been saved as EPS's and actually imported into the document. This file also contains asample document which contains SXetch Pad items that you can use the SXetch Pad Viewer XT to look at. TypesettingMarksXT 2.01 When installed, TypesettingMarksXT adds a new entry to XPress's Utilities menu called Typesetting Marks. This new command enhances the quality of the typesetting in either a specified range of text or throughout an entire document by making various edits to the text as described below. XTLite XTLite is a public domain toolkit that allows you to write software that adds custom features and enhancements to QuarkXPress(tm). Using XTLite and QuarkXPress, you'll learn how to: - add a Word Processing Filter - add menu items - trap and post user events You can also create dialog boxes and manipulate text using XTLite.