VTools

VTools is a collection of useful editing and product tools. VTools is designed to handle several of the mundane tasks in a workflow environment and add useful features to QuarkXPress.

Simply put, VTools provides you with these solutions:

• Fit to Content resizes a picture or text box to its content.
• Eliminate Duplicates interactively removes several sequences of duplicated characters such as space-space.
• Story Statistics displays the character, word and line count of a story.
• Process Colors changes the color separation.
• New Layout creates new documents from a database of stored document sizes.
• Advisory Board is a simple mark up utility for marking text for review, redlining changes and adding production notes.
• VTools Palette changes the text rotation, text skew, baseline shift and horizontal scale from a tiny palette.
• Copy & Apply is a copy and paste utility for copying text and paragraph attributes and applying these attributes to other text.
• Case Conversion changes the case of the selected text.

Advisory Board is an easy to use redlining and note tool for improving review workflows:
The Advisory workflow is simple. When editing a document, select the altered text and click on either the Mark or Review buttons on the Advisory Board palette. Text that is to be deleted is marked in magenta. While new or changed text is tagged for review in cyan.
When the changes are approved, use the Next button to find each change and click on Fixed to remove the Advisory. The magenta Advisories are deleted and the cyan Advisories are changed to black.

Need to give further instructions to the reviewer or artist, Advisory Board also create Advisory Notes. These notes are special boxes that Advisory Board can easily find and delete when they are no longer needed.

The VTools Palette puts several design and editing tools in a tiny window for instant access:
VTools features a useful styling tool called Copy & Apply. This tool copies the text or paragraph attributes from one selection of text and applies them to another selection. It is just like copy and paste but attributes.

VTools can rotate and skew the contents of a text box. Create unusal effects with your text.

This XTension is a must have for all designers. In addition to the above features VTools has many other must have tools.

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System and Demo Options

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Product Options

Product Pack Qty Platform Version Price Buy VTools [QuarkXPress 7.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 7.X 001 MAC 7.1 US $59.00 VTools Upgrade [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 001 MAC 8.0 US $25.00 VTools [QuarkXPress 6.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 6.X 001 MAC 6.1.2 US $59.00 VTools [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 005 MAC 8.0 US $265.50 VTools [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 010 MAC 8.0 US $472.00 VTools Upgrade from Text Toolkit, Ad Creation Toolkit, XDream [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 001 MAC 8.0 US $25.00 VTools [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 001 MAC 8.0 US $59.00 VTools Upgrade [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 005 MAC 8.0 US $112.50 VTools Upgrade [QuarkXPress 8.X] [ESD] QuarkXPress 8.X 010 MAC 8.0 US $200.00