XTags, XData and XCatalog now available for QuarkXPress 8!
em software announces various new and important product
releases for XTags, XData and XCatalog for QuarkXPress Mac and Win.
XTags is a powerful import and export text filter supporting the full Quark XPress Tags language plus its own extended tags, for even more document-building power. more information
new in this version:
- QuarkXPress 8 support
- massive unanchored box placement speed-up (10X)
- rotation, skew, flags and runaround for anchored boxes
- new "none content" boxes
- background blends
- auto-fitting of text boxes to width and depth, even multi-column
Xdata brings the full layout, design, 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. more information
new in this version:
- QuarkXPress 8 support
- human-friendly prototype formatting
- anchored text boxes, including auto-fitting
- anchored tables
- Excel-like formatting function 'format'
- background blends
- complete Unicode support, even in product "corners"
XCatalog is a powerful bi-directional linking tool for creating transparent links between your QuarkXPress documents and external data.
The Pro version of XCatalog differs from the normal version by offering ODBC support, providing connectivity to "big iron" databases such as Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server, as well as (under Windows) connectivity to Access databases and Excel files. more information
new in this version:
- QuarkXPress 8 support
- Pro/non-Pro versions now rolled into one XTension
- full table-tagging support (text within cells and whole cells)
- human-friendly editing in linked text (long-standing major nuisance)
- full up-to-date FileMakerPro direct access (was broken for a while)
