Planet Quark

Batch Print and Export from QuarkXPress and InDesign

Exportools Professional 3.0 is a standalone application that allows you to print or export files from QuarkXPress 8 and InDesign CS3/CS4. This is achieved by either manually dropping files into Exportools’ file list, or into a watched folder. Print and export settings are assigned ahead of time, so the output happens automatically. Use the built-in [...]

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Import/Export CAD to Illustrator

If you’ve ever been handed a CAD file to use in a page layout, you’ll appreciate this: Baby Universe’s EXDXF-Pro3 is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that lets you import CAD-standard DXF files and export Illustrator files to CAD. It costs just $90. Use it to get those CAD files into a format that works [...]

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FlightAlert Warns of Errors Before Output

CompuSense’s FlightAlert is an XTension for QuarkXPress 4–8 that warns users of a variety of file-creation errors, such as RGB TIFF and EPS graphics, 1-bit TIFFs and EPSes, empty picture boxes, missing or modified graphics, missing fonts in EPS files, text overflow, text with Bold or Italic applied styles, spot colors used, rotated items, suppressed-print [...]

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Neat Image: An Excellent Noise Reducer

Neat Image is a plug-in for Photoshop 7 through CS4, as well as Photoshop Elements and Apple Aperture, that reduces image noise and grain in digital photos and scans. (They also have a standalone version, and a version for video!) It works well at reducing noise in low-light action photos, as well as in portraits, [...]

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