UniQorn has a very rich feature set which includes many innovations. This document is intended to give you some understanding of the range of UniQorn's functionality. More detailed information and some reviews of UniQorn are available from our web site http://www.softpress.com/
The listings below are not intended to be comprehensive.
Interface
Open as many documents as memory allows
Simultaneous multiple views of documents including Layout, Master Pages
and Thumbnails
"Smart Outliner" for layout and content structures
Layout Palette to display, navigate and manipulate sections, pages and
frames
Contents Palette to display, navigate and manipulate the styles and structure
of a document's contents
Style Sheets Palette allows you to verify and assign Style Sheets to objects
Control Palette for fast access to most used type and layout parameters
Use eight measurement systems with maximum precision of 0.0001 points
Place and size objects manually or numerically
Zoom tool and dialogue let you zoom from 5% to 1000% in 1%
increments
Set the zoom tool increment
Show and hide invisible characters
Undo previous action
Rulers in independent measurement units
Control level of detail in palettes
Layout
Master Pages including multiple master pages in one document
Number of master pages only limited by memory
Number pages automatically
Drag pages and frames around document
Modify master items on document pages
Insert, delete and move multiple pages
Group pages into Sections
Select single or facing page display
Mixed sizes and orientation of pages within a single document
Page sizes from 1" x 1" to 400" x 400"
Frames can either be rectangular, rectangular with rounded corners, oval,
Bezier curves or polygons
All frame types can contain either text or graphics - Screenshot (22k)
Frames can be defined as page-relative or frame-relative
Flow text completely inside or outside any frame including Bezier shapes -
Screenshot (22k)
All frames can be skewed, rotated, mirrored and scaled to any degree
Text can be skewed, mirrored and rotated to different degrees to its
enclosing frame
Lock frames
Duplicate frames
Nudge Frames using arrow keys (coarse and fine increments)
Specify text flow offsets inside and outside frames
Assign default text style to any layout object
Define frame dimension in relation to its page or enclosing frame -
Screenshot (22k)
Objects can be automatically sized relative to changes in the enclosing
frame/page
Choose either line or character border for any frame
Assign any fill color to any frame
Specify foreground color for frames
Specify number of columns and gutter for any frame
Specify vertical and horizontal layout grids and baseline grids at document,
frame or page level
Specify guides for any page(s)
Specify color for grids
Show and hide grids, guides and pages
Display guides below or above frames
Snap to guides and grids
Send object to the front and back
Adjust ruler zero point
Align objects to grid
Align objects' tops, bottoms or centres
Text and Typography
QuickDraw GX font features and variations - Screenshot (22k)
Font dependent automatic ligatures, small caps, fractions, swash characters,
old- and new-style figures and more
Hanging punctuation
Optical alignment
Specify automatic kerning effect from 0% to 100%
User definable kerning overrides
Font sizes from 1 to 1000 points in .001 point increments
Up to three user defined concurrent underlines
Horizontal and vertical width change
Edit text while rotated, skewed or mirrored
Create automatic drop caps specifying number of lines and space
Apply color and shade to text
Define space and rules before and after paragraphs
Shift text below and above the baseline in absolute measure or relative to
the point size
Kern and track in .001-em increments
Save kerning overrides with document
Specify hyphenation zone
Specify minimum, optimum and maximum word spaces
Specify maximum letter spacing
Specify maximum consecutive number of hyphens
Specify number of characters before and after a hyphen
Specify minimum word size to be hyphenated
Automatic or absolute leading in .001 point increments
Left, right and first line indents
Style Sheets
"Smart Outliner" automatically creates style sheets when attributes are
applied to text
Apply a style sheet using menus or a palette
Make temporary styles permanent and vice-versa
Import styles from other documents
Style sheets include character, paragraph and mark-up attributes
Apple styles on a character by character basis
Word Processing
Multiple spelling dictionaries
Spell check a selection, story or document
User-defined exceptions for spelling and hyphenation
Hyphenation for multiple languages
Import text from popular word processing applications
Insert discretionary hyphens
Find and replace text and attributes in a selection, story or document
Color, Output and Presentation
PANTONE CALIBRATED Color Output
Save Pages as EPS or DCS files
Automatic trapping by object
Trapping overrides by color and object
Trapping preview
Print separations or composites
Separate spot colors
Separate colors from EPS files
Specify screen angle for each separation
Print crop marks, center crop marks, registration marks, star targets and
