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NEW XTENSION HELPS TO AVOID UNWANTED REFLOWS IN QUARKXPRESS
Released by Tobias Boskamp, Berlin, Germany, [100117,2007]
May, 26th 1994
The new XTension package FlowMaster helps users of QuarkXPress for
Macintosh to avoid unwanted text reflows. The problem is well-known
to many users: when exchanging documents between different systems,
platforms or different versions of QuarkXPress, one often encounters
unwanted text reflows that remain unnoticed until the document is
exposed or printed. Reasons for such unwanted reflows can be:
- different or missing fonts
- different preference settings
- different hyphenation languages
- different QuarkXPress versions
- ...
These problems can now easily be handled with FlowMaster. This new
XTension is actually two tools in one:
The first main feature of FlowMaster is its ability to record the
text flow and to later compare this recorded information with the
current text flow. This comparison reveals any reflows that might
have happened inbetween. Of course, this feature can be used
automatically: FlowMaster records the text flow whenever the document
is saved and checks every opened document for unwanted reflows. Thus,
you can be sure that a document opens with exactly the same text flow
as it was last saved by its author.
And there's more: FlowMaster is accompanied by the freeware XTensions
FlowWatch for both the Macintosh and the Windows platform. These
XTensions automatically store text flow information when a document
is saved. This information can later be used by FlowMaster to detect
unwanted reflows. Since FlowWatch is free, everyone who, for example,
sends his documents to a service bureau for exposure can benefit of
FlowMaster's reflow detection feature, provided that the service
bureau uses FlowMaster. The FlowWatch for Windows XTension offers the
same advantage to QuarkXPress for Windows users who send their
documents to a Mac based service bureau.
The second main feature of FlowMaster lets you lock the text flow of
a document to let it keep its line breaks and hyphenations, even if
the size of the text boxes change or the auto-hyphenation settings of
QuarkXPress are modified. This allows you to transfer a text from one
QuarkXPress version to another one with a different hyphenation
language. While QuarkXPress normally refuses to apply automatic
hyphenation to texts with a different language setting, locked text
keeps its hyphenations as if they were all manually entered by the
user. Indeed, the only difference between locked line breaks and
hyphenations as opposed to those entered by the user is, that locked
text can be easily unlocked again.
The following files related to the FlowMaster package are uploaded to
the DTP Forum on CompuServe:
Filename Library Description
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FWMAC.SIT [5] Mac DTP Utilities FlowWatch for Macintosh (Free)
FWWIN.ZIP [6] PC DTP Utilities FlowWatch for Windows (Free)
FMDEMO.SIT [12] Program Demos Demo version of FlowMaster
Also contains FlowWatch for Macintosh
FLWINF.TXT [17] News Releases This news release
For more information on the FlowMaster package, please contact one of
the following addresses:
Tobias Boskamp
Rathenower Str. 49 Tel. & Fax: +49-30-397 52 41
D-10559 Berlin CompuServe: 100117,2001
Germany
XChange Tel. : +1-800-788 7557
P.O. Box 270578 +1-303-229 0620
Ft. Collins Fax : +1-303-229 9773
Colorado 80527 CompuServe: 75300,2336
AppleLink: XChange.CO
XChange International
1-2 Bromley Place Tel. : +44-71-637 2966
London W1P 5HB Fax : +44-71-637 2842
Great Britain