Exportools: Export in Many Formats at Once
Badia’s Exportools 2.0 is an XTension for QuarkXPress 4/5/6/7 that lets you export your document pages in many ways, including:
- plain or rich text (RTF)
- PostScript
- EPS
- GIF
- JPEG
- PICT
- HTML
Each format has many options, notably: EPS and Screen Picture can be scaled 10% to 1000%, in B&W, grayscale or color; Text can be exported using any filter in QuarkXPress (XPress Tags, MS Word, etc.), and you can choose the order that text boxes are processed on a page.
Each page in a project can be exported as a separate file, and can optionally include visible page guides.
Exportools can also automatically send exported files to other applications for processing, such as sending PostScript to Distiller to make a PDF, or sending an EPS to Photoshop to rasterize at any size and resolution. Exportools costs $100. Their $180 “Professional” version can export from up to 5,000 QuarkXPress documents at once.
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.