Automatically Fit Text to Boxes in QuarkXPress
MPS CopyFit Desktop ($225) is an XTension for QuarkXPress 4.11 through 6.5 that finds and fixes overset and underset text boxes, according to a set of user-defined copy fitting rules for adjusting point size, scaling, leading, etc.
CopyFit settings can be saved as presets, and each box in a QuarkXPress layout can be assigned a different CopyFit setting.
CopyFit can be applied to all boxes at once or just one box at a time. CopyFit can also check for overset conditions during Save, Print, or Save as EPS operations.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.