Does your boss keep referring to multimedia — and she means YOU?
 If you read
X-Ray Magazine, you are probably a designer or production person. You probably create stunning brochures, annual reports, or maybe in-house promotional products -- but someone is confused. Maybe it's you. Why is it that your boss (AKA, the customer) thinks you can just whip up some ultra-cool, animated creation that actually moves the customer to click here? Whether you are a die-hard InDesign or QuarkXPress fan you can be creating animated presentations or ads and multi-state buttons in a flash. I mean, "without Flash."
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Pitstop Professional for Adobe Acrobat is like having your own pitcrew for PDFs.
 Enfocus has developed a commanding tool set that takes care of all the would-be headaches in PDF exchange. Their certified-PDF technology not only guarantees that a PDF was preflighted with the relevant PDF profile, it also provides a comprehensive preflight report and keeps track of all the changes made to a PDF throughout the entire workflow.
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 Tim Banister, general manager of desktop software for Quark, Inc., says that QuarkXPress 8 is the best version so far. While the list of new features is comparatively short, they are far reaching. Everywhere you look — menus, palettes, and dialogues — there's something new, something streamlined, or something just plain cool.
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Sonar Bookends Professional for automatic indices and TOCs
 There are many ways to create a professional-looking index, table of contents, or site index for a web site, and there are a number of automation techniques, but none compare to the processing and text control of Virginia Systems' line of tools.
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It's not just the title; it's the content. Industry experts shed light on the most obscure and the most popular QuarkXPress features; making this the best source for feature understanding -- whether you're a beginner or an expert yourself.
TeXTractor for QuarkXPress 8 — for pulp-free text extraction
 If you're tasked with getting out what was once put in — text that is — TeXTractor for QuarkXPress 8 will fast become your favorite XTensions module. Now supporting QuarkXPress 8 (and 4, 6, and 7, too), breathe easy knowing that you can give your cut and paste keys a rest.
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Xcatalog Pro for QuarkXPress and InCatalog Pro for InDesign will reign in your wayward catalogues
 Catalogue production may be the most time consuming of all publishing projects. A single catalogue can be a burden on everyone: IT managers, database creators, designers, photographers, production artists, and even the customer. There may be dozens of collaborators, thousands of pages, tens of thousands of images, and yet somehow you are expected to pull it all together into a beautiful, easy-to-navigate design with every last-minute pricing update, product description, and photo in place and perfect. With Xcatalog and InCatalog, not only is this possible, it's easy.
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 Keeping track of pictures, updating modified pictures, and the most challenging of all, replacing pictures with new pictures, have been workflow drags for as long as publishing has been on the desktop, but Badia spends much of their time developing solutions.
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OpenNow Pro for
InDesign CS3 and
now for QuarkXPress 8
 When your fingers and brain cells are collaborating on your latest award-winning design, and the ideas are coming fast and furious, the last thing you want to do is actually stop and think about what you're doing. Editing graphics while you're deeply entrenched in your page-design application is always a pain, especially the part about choosing the best application for the job. OpenNow Pro -- for QuarkXPress and InDesign -- intervenes on your behalf.
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MadeToPrint for QuarkXPress, InDesign, and QPS automates printing processes and the generation of EPSs and PDFs.
 If your workflow includes output, of just about any nature, you might be spending more time than necessary to manage devices, output styles, or output tracking. MadeToPrint, for either InDesign®, QuarkXPress®, or Quark Publishing System® is ideal for minimizing this resource sinkhole.
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One-trick Ponies ride to the
workflow rescue
 Describing any extensions module as a one-trick pony borders on a misnomer, but for the purpose of this article, it fits. In the next few pages I'll shed some light on Photoshop, QuarkXPress, InDesign, and Acrobat extensible technology, and a book that is a must have for everyone. Each of these products provides a singular purpose — for less than $50.
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My 7 Favorite XTensions for 7
 Now that you've upgraded to QuarkXPress 7, or are considering an upgrade, what XTensions are available? Here's my favorite seven, but they are just a small selection of the myriad from which you may choose.
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