UniQorn sets new standards in creativeness, flexibility, precision and ease of use for the page layout process. It offers professional designers and publishers a freshly designed range of frame-based page design tools together with superb control of typography, graphics and color. In addition, UniQorn provides many unique facilities which extend the creative frontiers of professional DTP for paper-based publishing and new media publishing. Here is a selection of highlights from the feature list.
LAYOUT
• Flexible page design tools for creating and modifying frames whose sizes and positions can be fixed or proportionally dependent on the enclosing page/frame.
• Creates layouts with rectangular, oval, polygon and path frames.
• Flow text around and inside layout elements of any shape.
• Flexible Presentation – design documents which can be easily adapted for use in modified formats, e.g., change from A4 to US letter; change from portrait to landscape orientation.
• Frames can be used for text or graphics without pre-selection.
• Apply complex grids to any frame, page or document.
• Fit graphics to frames or fit frames to graphics.
TYPOGRAPHY AND STYLES
• Superb typographic controls for type specification and justification.
• Give your designs new impact and elegance using traditional and creative typographic features of QuickDraw GX "smart" fonts. Get easy access to designed small caps, fractions, ordinals, ligatures and many more useful features.
• PostScript typefaces are also supported.
• Interactive editing of transformed text which has been rotated, skewed or mirrored.
• Style sheets are automatically created as you apply attributes to any text selection.
• Comprehensive text formatting facilities include paragraph rules, indenting, dropped caps and tabulation.
• Import text from word processing packages.
IMAGE HANDLING
• Professional color image handling, import and export. Import TIFF, EPS, DCS, PICT and QuickDraw GX formats. Export EPS and DCS.
• PANTONE CALIBRATED – extensive Pantone and POCE™ support.
• Fast image import and optimized image handling with down sampling. Images are automatically sampled for predefined screen ruling and imagesetter or printer resolution.
• Easy interactive control of partial text coloring through the unique Foreground Color feature.
• Color conversion with
ColorSync 2.0.
• Interactively control and preview trapping on screen.
INTERFACE AND PRESENTATION
• Use different page sizes and orientations in one job.
• Simultaneous multiple views of documents – master pages, layout or thumbnails.
• Get direct access to common specs through the Control palette.
• Use the Layout palette to see your whole document structure for easy navigation and repositioning of pages and frames.
• Navigate a document by story content or style using the Contents palette.
• Integrated conversion of text styles to HTML for internet publishing.
• Extensive implementation of AppleScript.™
• Use UniQorn for non-Roman languages with its WorldScript™ compatibility.
• Support for QuickDraw GX printing architecture.
• Output to PostScript imagesetters and printers, as well as QuickDraw printers.
