VTools

Helpfull collection of editing and product tools for XPress

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
  
  
• Full Fit Picture
  resizes and crops a picture to fill its box
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Auto Create Library
  append the images in a folder to an existing library
  
  
• 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
  
  
• The 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
  
  
• Link Tools
  does linking and unlinking of stories that QuarkXPress does not do