MarkZTools

MarkzTools is an XTension that can be used to prevent corrupted QuarkXPress documents, overcoming the dreaded bad file format [70], [39], and [108].

You can verify your saved Quark documents, so you will immediately know when the integrity of your file is suspect. Furthermore, using a special temp file MarkzTools can try to help you recover documents that have become corrupted during a save operation while using Quark. (*Note, this special temp file is only available to MarkzTools behind the scenes and is not selectable by the user.)

In the case of a badly corrupted file in which the page layout data cannot be salvaged, the (scavenge text) feature may extract text stories from a document file.

MarkzTools alerts you whenever you are about to save a lower version document to a higher version. It also makes QuarkXPress backwards compatible, allowing you to open higher version Quark documents.

The (gray previews) features allows you to convert your full color picture previews into gray pictures, greatly reducing the file size on your hard drive.

MarkzTools 8 can convert saved documents to Quark 6 or Quark 4 or allow Quark 8 to export open documents to those versions directly.