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- NEW XTENSION HELPS TO AVOID UNWANTED REFLOWS IN QUARKXPRESS
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- Released by Tobias Boskamp, Berlin, Germany, [100117,2007]
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- May, 26th 1994
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- 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:
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- - different or missing fonts
- - different preference settings
- - different hyphenation languages
- - different QuarkXPress versions
- - ...
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- These problems can now easily be handled with FlowMaster. This new
- XTension is actually two tools in one:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- The following files related to the FlowMaster package are uploaded to
- the DTP Forum on CompuServe:
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- 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
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- For more information on the FlowMaster package, please contact one of
- the following addresses:
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- Tobias Boskamp
- Rathenower Str. 49 Tel. & Fax: +49-30-397 52 41
- D-10559 Berlin CompuServe: 100117,2001
- Germany
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- 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
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- XChange International
- 1-2 Bromley Place Tel. : +44-71-637 2966
- London W1P 5HB Fax : +44-71-637 2842
- Great Britain
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