XactuellXT will create a link between text connections and database fields, and will optionally update the connections bidirectionally. For publications in which text information needs to be changed, XactuellXT will perform the updates easily and seamlessly.

Features:

• supports Xtags filter and SubStationXT in text-section and text-frame connections;

• database connections are supported through ODBC;

• exports text; and

• no SQL or database knowledge is needed.

XactuellXT Enhanced contains all XactuellXT functions and many more, including:

• import picture data and text files;

• pass on attributes to picture and text frames and set their behavior; and

• supports batch update.

XactuellXT 2000 contains all functions of XactuellXT and XactuellXT Enhanced, and many more, including:

• automatically make simple screen layouts from a copy; and

• all QuarkXPress functions can be used, since the creation of the copy takes place directly in QuarkXPress.

Manufacturer: CodeWare

Xcatalog, an XTension for QuarkXPress, is a powerful bi-directional linking tool for creating transparent links between QuarkXPress documents and external data. With these links in place, never enter or update data in two places (documents and database), simply update one or the other from the most current version.

Xcatalog, an XTension for QuarkXPress, is a powerful bi-directional linking tool for creating transparent links between QuarkXPress documents and external data. With these links in place, never enter or update data in two places (documents and database), simply update one or the other from the most current version.

Xdata is the best-selling XTension that brings the full typographic and picture publishing power of QuarkXPress to bear on all your data-driven repetitive publishing tasks: catalogs, directories, form letters, financial summaries, tables, labels, lists of all sorts, and more. Completely integrated with XPress, Xdata automatically formats data exported from your Macintosh or Windows database and spreadsheet applications, or downloaded from your corporate information systems, freeing you from endless manual formatting. Xdata can also import related pictures (of any type supported by XPress) into boxes anchored in the incoming text.

XPressImage, an XTensions module, allows the export of QuarkXPress documents, pages, spreads, or selections to over twenty formats — at any size or resolution. The various supported formats provide newfound options for QuarkXPress content. Repurpose QuarkXPress pages for use in image-editing applications such as Photoshop and Painter, and presentation applications such as Keynote, PowerPoint. or PresenterActive.

XPressImage, an XTensions module, allows the export of QuarkXPress documents, pages, spreads, or selections to over twenty formats — at any size or resolution. The various supported formats provide newfound options for QuarkXPress content. Repurpose QuarkXPress pages for use in image-editing applications such as Photoshop and Painter, and presentation applications such as Keynote, PowerPoint. or PresenterActive. Pro versions allows for batch processing and support more export options.

With XPressMath, users can typeset complex mathematical formulas and equations in QuarkXPress.

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.

The XTWonderPack is made of two basic XTensions modules containing several modules: WonderBlend and WonderText.

WonderBlend includes:

• convert to produce high-quality color separation inside QuarkXPress. Any TIFF, PICT, or Photoshop RGB image is converted to high-quality CMYK images with full control of the black plate.

• montage to build composites of up to 64 layers of images in RGB or real CMYK. Every layer has its own set of density masking and montage enables work on very high-resolution images with full pan and zoom provided and with limited amount of RAM memory.

• brushes offers a set of powerful brush-on raster images inside QuarkXPress such as clone, etch, and noise. It also lets users work inside QuarkXPress on RGB or CMYK images of any size with limited amounts of RAM.

• clip provides a full set of paths tools to create precision clipping paths on RGB or CMYK, and lets users pan and zoom on any image to create precise clipping paths which are directly accessible as silhouetted images inside QuarkXPress.

Features:

• high-quality color separation;

• full-detail image masking;

• multilayer image compositing and blending;

• cloning and etching brushes;

• drop shadows;

• bevels;

• embosses;

• full range of amazing gradients;

• more than 400 effects ready for any Type 1 titles or headlines;

• royalty-free library of 60 high-resolution images, drum scanned; and

• more than 100 seamless tiles.

WonderText includes:

• huge library of more than 400 effects sorted per category;

• shadows for all kinds of inner or outer shadows made of solid tint or vignettes;

• bevel or emboss with a collection of effects to be applied within any Type 1 outline font;

• distressed transforms any headlines with amazing distressed effects;

• earth features special text effects such as fire, glass, smoke, lava, magma, ice, and moss;

• vignettes for gradient within type

• astounding color waves effects;

• neon providing a rich collection of glowing and gradient effects; and

• material for chrome, aluminum, wood, and mercury effects on titles or headlines.

The interface has been designed for straightforward and simple manipulations. Buttons guide the user, even beginners, to add very complex effects immediately to a title or a graphic. WonderText features a very large preview and an advanced zoom and pan to preview one effect at any level of detail without really applying it. A set of commands allows users to tune any parameter of the effect to be applied: changing a color, an angle, a feather, or a gradient is very easy. Any new effect can also be saved and incorporated to the current library for future reuse.

Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The