One of the most popular XTensions modules on the market today, Resize XT scales a group of page elements to a specified percentage just as is done in an illustration program. Scale proportionally keeping the horizontal and vertical ratio even, or amorphically choosing two different percentages for fitting the page elements into a design. Graphics, font sizes, text indents, border widths, and line thickness scale automatically along with the selected text and graphic boxes.

The resize xt tool, added to the QuarkXPress tool palette, enables the user to drag the group to the desired size for a perfect layout every time. Size the group visually with the resize xt tool or enter an exact percentage to indicate the desired size. Enter a new width and/or height for the group in order to get the elements exactly the right size.

Features:

· scaling percentages between 10% and the maximum size that does not place the group off the bottom of the page;

· scale proportionally;

· scale horizontal and vertical directions independently;

· scale and maintain the position of the pictures in the scaled boxes;

· scale the line and frame widths;

· scale the text size, even with mixed text sizes;

· scale grouped boxes as well as several selected (yet un-grouped) boxes;

· scale single boxes; and

· scalable paragraph rules, leading, tabs, and indents.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

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SpellBound augments QuarkXPress' spell-check features while checking the spelling of a single word, an active story, an entire document, or the text on master pages. SpellBound can access up to five auxiliary dictionaries and provides an exception dictionary (this is useful for implementing house styles to ensure words are always spelled in a certain manner).

Features:

· detects capitalization errors (e.g., will flag proper nouns not capitalized);

· uses a comprehensive, phonetically based algorithm when looking for alternative spellings to words;

· has a more precise definition of word boundaries (spell check words such as Ph.D. and QuarkXPress);

· enables the use as a guesser (interactively type in a guess and do a look up);

· highlight portions of compound words and get spelling suggestions on the constituent words;

· distinguishes between words with the same spelling but different capitalization;

· when replacing a misspelled word, optionally choose only to replace words with the same capitalization as the present word or all occurrences;

· allows for the choice of casting capitalization of the replacement word to that of the original;

· enables the user to edit any of the open auxiliary or exception dictionaries while doing a spell check;

· enables the user to enter non-alphabetic characters into the auxiliary or exception dictionaries (if nonstandard characters are entered into an English auxiliary dictionary, then this dictionary cannot be used with the internal QuarkXPress spell checker); and

· will spell check words that contain fi or fl ligatures.

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.

Available languages:

· Arabic;

· Danish;

· Dutch;

· English (British or U.S.);

· French;

· German;

· Italian;

· Norwegian;

· Russian;

· Spanish; and

· Swedish.

Additional dictionaries and word count:

· Biochemistry

· Geographical 50,000;

· Dental 12,000;

· Technical 50,000;

· Legal 26,000;

· Medical 125,000;

· Pharmaceutical 28,000;

· Wall Street 8,000;

· American Heritage Dictionary 450,000; and

· Webster's Dictionary 800,000.

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Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

For language dictionaries, please indicate language preference in the comments field. Priced per language or specialty dictionary.

The SpellBound spellchecker XTensions module checks the spelling of a single word, of an active story, of an entire document, or of the text on master pages. It provides functionality and features not found in QuarkXPress' spell checker, such as allowing multiple auxiliary dictionaries (up to five) to be open at any one time, and providing for an exception dictionary (this is useful for implementing house styles to ensure words are always spelled in a certain manner).

Available languages: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English (British or U.S.), French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

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.

Additional dictionaries and word count:

Geographical 50,000

Dental 12,000

Technical 50,000

Legal 26,000

Medical 125,000

Pharmaceutical 28,000

Wall Street Words 8,000

American Heritage Dictionary 450,000

Webster's Dictionary 800,000

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Manufacturer: CompuSense Ltd.

Stylin' enables the user to apply certain portions of a QuarkXPress style sheet to text while protecting local formatting. Style sheets are powerful formatting tools, but applying a style sheet may remove attributes that were applied locally. Stylin' solves this problem with a couple of clicks of the mouse.

Stylin' uses a floating palette that contains all the paragraph and character style sheets for a QuarkXPress project. Click on one of the style sheet's names and use the style sheet to override specific attributes. The attributes that are not reformatted are remembered between each use. This product will improve reformatting workflow.

Stylin' stores frequently used settings for easy recall. This prevents the need to constantly change the Stylin' preferences. Shift + click on the style sheet in the Stylin' palette and a simplified dialog interface enables the user to select the setting to apply.

Option + click on the style sheet in the Stylin' palette to choose the attributes to protect when the style sheet is applied to the text. Once the settings are correct store them for quick recall in either of the Stylin' dialog boxes.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

The Tab Grabber XTensions module enables users to select and modify tab settings without the need to edit QuarkXPress style sheets or change tab settings one at a time.

Manufacturer: Meadows Information Systems, LLC

Finally a way to select and modify text vertically, anywhere on a page. With the Text Grabber XTensions module, drag a marquee around the page area to modify.

Manufacturer: Meadows Information Systems, LLC

With TeXTractor, export all the text in a QuarkXPress document or selected portions of the text using any text-export filter installed in the QuarkXPress XTensions folder.

Open QuarkXPress pages in Photoshop. The TIFF Export XTensions module saves pages or spreads as TIFF for greater portability.

Select the DPI for the resulting TIFFs so the resolution of the image is as great as desired. The exported graphic file is more portable than an EPS because, with TIFF graphics, the fonts are part of the image. TIFF Export even allows user-definable page scaling.

Manufacturer: Vision's Edge, Inc.

VTools is a collection of useful editing and product tools.

Xtags provides an enhanced version of the XPress Tags language supported by QuarkXPress. Both XPress Tags and Xtags import plain text files into QuarkXPress as fully formatted text, using special formatting codes embedded in the text file; and you can also export formatted text within a QuarkXPress document via both XPress Tags and Xtags. Except as noted in the manual, all XPress Tags constructs are supported by Xtags.