Arabic Collection for Mac includes: ArabicXT 5.0 bundled with Kalimat 3.0, along with CD 3 or CD 4 Arabic fonts.

Arabic Collection for Windows includes: ArabicXT 5.0 bundled with Al-Rassam Al-Arabi 3.0, along with CD 3 or CD 4 Arabic fonts.

Arabic Collection Upgrade for Mac includes: ArabicXT 5.0 upgrade from 4.1 bundled with Kalimat 3.0, along with CD 3 or CD4 Arabic fonts.

Arabic Collection Upgrade for Windows includes: ArabicXT 5.0 upgrade from 4.1 bundled with Al-Rassam Al-Arabi 3.0, along with CD 3 or CD 4 Arabic Fonts.

Manufacturer: Layout Limited

These new Arabic font CD-ROMs contain beautifully designed Arabic XT/Kalimat/Al Rassam fonts. The entire Arabic fonts library for Arabic XT/Kalimat is now available on four CD-ROMs: Collection 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. More than 100 Arabic fonts are available in these collections.

• Collection 1 contains 75 Typefaces;

• Collection 2 contains 25 typefaces;

• Collection 3 contains 10 typefaces;

• Collection 4 contains 10 typefaces;

• Collection 5 contains 32 typefaces;

• Collection 6 contains 10 typefaces;

• Collection 7 contains 10 typefaces;

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.

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Manufacturer: Layout Limited

ArabicXT versions 7 & 8 allow you to publish in Arabic, Jawi, Farsi, Kurdish and HXT and to create outstanding designs for both print and electronic media. All in one package without the need for additional language modules, like previous versions required.

ArabicXT versions 7 & 8 allow you to publish in Arabic, Jawi, Farsi, Kurdish and HXT and to create outstanding designs for both print and electronic media. All in one package without the need for additional language modules, like previous versions required.

BarCoder XT creates UPC, EAN, and ISBN barcodes. The barcodes are saved as EPS files for high-resolution output. With BarCoder XT, select the symbology, enter the data, and BarCoder XT does the calculating and creation.

Features:

• include supplemental digits;

• make full- or half-height bars;

• include the digits;

• add color; and

• create transparent backgrounds.

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Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

BlackLining works in conjunction with QuarkXPress and InDesign to allow a user to retain a complete audit trail of all changes made to text in QuarkXPress, InDesign, or Word documents. It is essential for users in financial, legal, reporting, medical, and other markets where the tracking of text content changes is critical.

Regulations now make executives of companies personally responsible for the content in their publications and BlackLining ensures that they are fully secure in the knowledge that they have reviewed all the alterations that may have occurred.

BlackLining tracks changes made to the text of a document as it is being revised. See a complete history of changes that have occurred. Text inserts are shown as underlines and text deletes can either be shown as strike through, or have a caret mark from where text has been deleted. BlackLining has the unique feature of tracking different revision cycles. By choosing different revision cycles it is possible to show a complete history of all the text changes made to a document as it passes through the revision process.

If a run of text or word or letter is deleted it will be marked as strike through — a line through the center of text in a bold form or color that shows it as being struck out. New text that is inserted will be marked as underlined, again in bold or colored, so that it is apparent to the reader that it is a new insert.

It may be obvious though that to retain all the deleted text in a document could mean that it becomes greatly increased in pagination to encompass all the deletes; to enable the pagination to remain correct, it is possible to change views so that strike-through text is hidden but its presence marked only by a small mark or caret. Words that have been inserted or deleted will appear or disappear depending on the revision level being displayed, Up to 98 revisions level can be recorded.

Preferences govern the screen display and the printed output, and these can be set for individual revision levels as well. In addition there is an option to highlight all on-screen marks and have sidebar markers when printed.

A special characters' feature allows a live header of a document to be created so that, if used on a master page for example, all pages can have document information such as name, date and time, as well as BlackLining revision numbers and a checksum.

A history file records the actions taken in a documents' history and this can be printed or exported — which may be useful for billing or auditing.

Features:

• deleted text can be shown as strike-through or by caret mark;

• inserted text will be shown as underlined;

• up to 98 revision levels can be recorded;

• through the active revision display, a true history of the document can be shown;

• words that have been inserted or deleted will appear or disappear depending on the revision level being displayed;

• paste text with BlackLining marks in place;

• special characters allow a live header to be built for displaying job information;

• comprehensive set of preferences give full options and control;

• on-screen highlight display;

• merge, remove, and erase functions for BlackLining marks at all levels;

• complete document BlackLining history log file;

• manual BlackLining marking and clearing;

• special characters allow a live header to be built for displaying job information;

• compatibility for Acrobat Distiller PDF drivers;

• optionally show the BlackLining level(s) in the same line as the document name;

• generate and print a checksum on the same line as the document name when printing with registration marks (checksum is a unique number generated for the page, and if the items on the page differ from one print session to the next then the number will be different);

• export all text from a document;

• enhanced BlackLining user information report;

• open architecture allows ease of interface with other developers and customization; and

• Mac and Windows versions available. (Mac Universal PowerPC and Intel for QuarkXPress 7).

The original version of BlackLining has been available since 1996 and has been widely adopted by major companies involved in preparing documents such as annual reports, share issues, bond and debt Issues, and statutory reporting to US (EDGAR), UK, and other stock exchanges. For certain types of document, maintaining an audit trail of changes is a mandatory requirement of such regulatory bodies as SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) in the US, LSE (London Stock Exchange), and FSA (Financial Services Authority) in the UK.

Over time, BlackLining has gained new features that have increased its value in a wide range of non-financial sectors such as legal documents, disclaimers, terms and conditions, and government reporting. Many non-financial industries are also now stringently regulated so BlackLining QuarkXPress might well be used for documents relating to pharmaceuticals, health and safety, food labeling, and so on.

BlackLining provides particular benefits for the production of consultative documents. A good example might be a committee, which is preparing an industry standard or specification. Typically, the members of such committees are in several different countries. Amendments can be clearly indicated and the revised draft circulated as a PDF for the next round of consultation.

Manufacturer: EMS

QuarkXPress automatically creates facing pages in reader's spreads format. Page two faces page three, just as the pages appear in the final publication. This is the easiest way to edit text as the user can view entire spreads at one time, but when it comes time to output a saddle-stitched publication the document needs to be rearranged into printer's spreads format. Bookletizer XTensions module rearranges reader's spreads document into printer's spreads document for final output.

BureauManager XTensions module is the definitive and ultimate tool to easily and completely prepare a job for delivery to a service bureau. It quickly extracts information from the original document to determine which fonts (screen and printer) and high-resolution graphics are required to be copied. It also has a built-in auto find utility that will search for any missing graphics. The XTensions module incorporates a powerful document-report generator which enables the user to choose from over 100 document attributes on which to report. These include general document information, picture- and text-box attributes, fonts, colors, style-sheet details, and many more.

With a file mover option, the user can select a file and specify the destination disc and/or folder to where the file will be copied. The file and all its linked files (including DCS files if required) will be transferred. When moving or copying a file, the user may select to also move the QuarkXPress preferences file and any other required auxiliary files at the same time.

If any linked graphics are missing or modified, the XTensions module provides an auto find utility which is a high-performance search tool that will search through predefined volumes or folders for the missing graphics. The user can completely control the process by specifying default search paths.

When moving files, the XTensions module will also optionally present a special-instructions dialog which allows the user to direct the service bureau in choices of print medium, film setting, screen-line settings, and resolution. Popup menus for instructing the service bureau as to the priority of the job and trapping instructions are also available as well as shipping and general-comment fields. As part of the special instructions, the user may include such information as company details, the system, and QuarkXPress environments. All items in the special-instructions dialog are user configurable, therefore, the user has complete control over what options appear in the popup menus. The report generator comes with 12 predefined document reports. Each of these can be easily modified to include the exact document report details required. A report can be created on the fly for any document, opened or unopened, or generated for the document during the move-to-bureau process.

Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

Color markup of documents is a time-consuming task that art directors and production managers have been doing manually since the advent of color printing.

ColorManager is a powerful, yet simple-to-use XTensions module for QuarkXPress. It allows users to identify, control, and easily manipulate any color usage within a document. Its aim and purpose is to provide a tool that makes the production of any color publication less arduous and more efficient in terms of time and money.

Features:

• allows users to easily search and replace any color that appears in text, lines, frames, or backgrounds, and when searching for a color, the user can optionally specify what percentage shade of the specified color to look for;

• when replacing a color, the user can optionally specify what percentage shade the resultant color should be;

• allows the user to change individual occurrences of a color or to globally change all occurrences in the document;

• provides a process-separation flag for all colors in the document and colors can be checked and set in a facile manner;

• provides epsf usage feature that enables the user to keep track of the custom colors used in high-resolution EPS files;

• allows the user to locate and view EPS pictures in an active document (for each custom color that appears in the EPS file, know that color already exists in the present QuarkXPress document, if it doesn't, choose to create it);

• allows the user to print a report of all EPS files in the document, listing for each the custom colors contained within;

• provides a screen angles feature that allows the user to specify custom CMYK screen angles and frequencies to use for printing, thus preventing moir patterns; and

• provides a file mover option that allows the user to select a file and specify a destination disc and or folder where the file should be copied to (the file and all its linked files will be transferred to that location).

Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

For additional savings, check out the bundle: Grabber Bundle.

With the Copy Grabber XTensions module, cut, copy, or paste an entire column of tabular copy — don't delete columns one line at a time — move them whole. Like all of the Grabber XTensions modules, Copy Grabber is incredibly easy to use. Select Copy Grabber from the QuarkXPress tool palette and drag a marquee around the column to be changed. Release the mouse and a dialog box appears enabling the user to cut or copy all text within the selected area. Click the desired button, or use the Copy Grabber shortcut keys to complete the process.

In an instant remove a column, or copy it to the clipboard. To paste a column, just place the cursor where the column is to be inserted and hit Command-Option-V. Copy Grabber will automatically insert and position the text column like magic. Perfect for catalog work, annual reports, or anything else involving tabular composition.

Manufacturer: Meadows Information Systems, LLC

CopyFlow Gold adds powerful page-assembly capabilities to QuarkXPress. It provides menu selections which enables the end user to automatically import and export text and import artwork into QuarkXPress documents. Perfect for translating a document from one language to another.

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.

Cropster is the professional's choice for setting up mechanical and page markings. This powerful XTensions module will set up crop marks for bleed, trim, safety, folds, and page gutters. It sets up guides for all of the aforementioned crop marks. Cropster enables the choice of machine centering on a page to facilitate double-sided printing, and it features user-definable presets. Use Cropster and see why it is the industry standard for setting up electronic mechanicals.

Cropster will lay out crop marks for any number of folds (e.g., a tri-fold brochure). Cropster saves valuable time by enabling the user to simply choose the number of folds instead of drawing fold and gutter markings manually.

Arrows label the sizes of bleed, trim, and safety, making it easy for proofreaders to know exactly what size the crop marks were set to. Saves time by only asking for oft-used settings once and saving them as a preset.

Custom fold marks provide for very complex crop and fold marks as well as gives a convenient method for doing two-up, four-up, ten-up, and so on.

Interactive crops saves choices, so if after a few minutes or a few days they need to be changed, open the dialog and all the settings for that page are there.

Features:

• set up square or round registration marks;

• specify guides for bleed, trim, safety, all, some, or none;

• specify crops for bleed, trim, safety, all, some, or none;

• specify set up on master page; and

• optionally include date and time, document name, logo, and color bar.

New to Cropster 5.0:

• create trimmed document (takes a defined Cropster area and then creates a new document to that trim specification with content copied);

• control colors and fonts of all items;

• delete Cropster items from menu;

• label trim, bleed, and safety as desired;

• set scale of dimensions to indicate huge sizes in feet or meters;

• copy even folds to custom folds;

• nudge fold marks for proper real-world folding;

• mirror fold marks;

• add scale legend;

• toggle CMYK legend; and

• fully integrated with Slugger (sold separately).

Manufacturer: GLUON

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.

DocuSlim processes images within a QuarkXPress document globally or individually. DocuSlim crops excess image material (with specified bleed), resizes and reimports images at 100%, resamples to a target resolution, converts RGB to CMYK, and turns off LZW compression.

All processing is done automatically in Photoshop and new versions of pictures are then reimported to the correct location (even though they might have been cropped). The user can optionally choose which pictures to process.

In testing, documents have gone from 14 MB to 2 MB, still maintaining the high quality of the original document. DocuSlim is great for saving space on servers and uploads to printers or emailing. DocuSlim is bundled with a special automation Plug-in to allow the transfer of information between QuarkXPress and Photoshop 5.X or higher (required).

Features:

• new tabbed dialog;

• separate checkboxes for each process;

• control over rotate and skew;

• change specified images to grayscale;

• master-page controls and logic;

• process selection, current page, spread, pages, document and/or master pages;

• several options for choosing images to omit from the process;

• ability to create new folder with document images automatically;

• ability to launch Photoshop automatically; and

• presets for saving, recalling, and sharing complex settings.

Enhanced version includes:

• ability to change file format;

• ability to process each instance of same image;

• ability to call additional Photoshop action;

• ability to create a low-resolution version of images; and

• AppleScript support.

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Manufacturer: GLUON

Never before has it been so easy to get graphics into QuarkXPress. Whether you need to import a single image or a hard drive full, simply drag images or folders over a QuarkXPress document and DragIn does the rest!

ArabicXT with Farsi Support, or FarsiXT, enables the user to publish in Farsi and to create outstanding designs for both print and electronic media. Using FarsiXT in conjunction with QuarkXPress Passport, anyone can learn to create superb Farsi language page layouts - without a Farsi operating system.

ArabicXT 6.1 with Farsi support also opens up the world of self-publishing in Farsi/Persian to the novice, including students, freelancers, and home-based professionals.

In a very short time, anyone can learn to create superb Farsi page layouts. ArabicXT 6.1 with Farsi support does not change in the original code of QuarkXPress Passport and all features are available in this Farsi XTensions software.

FarsiXT 6.1 runs flawlessly under MAC OS X, and has been specifically designed to run in the native Mac OS X v10.2 environments. This version is a more efficient solution that conforms to the new user interface of the MAC operating system.

FarsiXT 6.1 can also be used in conjunction with QuarkXPress Passport, the multilingual version of QuarkXPress, allowing users to justify, hyphenate, and spell check text in 11 languages, including International English, U.S. English, German, French, Spanish, Swiss German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian.

Features:

• create eye-catching Farsi/Persian web documents;

• gain more control over Farsi layout spaces;

• synchronize Farsi text among different layout spaces for greater accuracy;

• manage tables efficiently;

• multiple undos;

• automatic Kashida insertion, using powerful Kashida algorithms for perfect justification;

• controllable ligature selection;

• automatic vertical and horizontal positioning of accents over characters;

• drop words over several lines at the beginning of paragraphs;

• mix Farsi and Latin text in the same text box;

• import Farsi text from Macintosh or Windows word processors;

• export Farsi text for editing in other Farsi word processors;

• copy and paste Farsi text attributes on a character-level basis;

• change attributes of a specific language within a mixed selection range;

• enhanced flip-document layout feature handles lines and bzier curves;

• bilingual find and replace;

• convert text to table and table to text;

• improved handling of style sheets;

• includes 17 high-quality Farsi fonts; and

• bundled with 1 free in-pack premium: Zakhrafat(TM), Layout's professional collection of more than 140 oriental clip arts and 30 drop caps, created by top graphic designers.

FarsiXT 6.1 can run in reader-mode, in which the user works without a dongle. A full FarsiXT version is not necessary to view or print a document created with FarsiXT 6.1.

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

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.