Happy New Year!
Wasn’t that year 2008 something? I’m hoping for an “understatement of the year” award, so if you know of any, please enter this post for me.
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.
Thanks for all the wishes ! I hope this 2009 will bring lots of good things… there is one I wish integrated in XPress ! The Xtension XScale, so we can, again, scale items exactly by giving a percentage and repeat this for different objects. I loose a lot of time now that this is missing. When I have an add in a specific format and need to adapt it in a new one…
Let me know as soon this is available again !!
Best wishes
Hi Christian. I agree: how hard could it be to add a numerical scaling feature? But I think you were referring to XPert Scale, which lets you scale groups of items, either visually or numerically, with control over which items and attributes get scaled and how (proportionally or not).
If you have some $$ you can throw at the problem, an even more powerful solution is Gluon’s ProScale. You can read about it at http://planetquark.com/2008/04/15/the-most-powerful-scaler/. It absolutely rocks.
Thanks for this information. I find the pack expansive (139 $) for 1 Xtension. I would be interested but it says for XPress 4, 5, 6 or 7 but no question of XPress 8. I had XPert Scale for Xpress 7, and it’s diffcult, once you were used to it, to work without it now. So is the Gluon ProScale working with XPress 8 ? And why buy it if Quark has bought ALAP and will certainly integrate it soon (at least that’s what I hope).
Christian
The Much Better Bargain is ProPack 8, which includes ProScale and costs $219. I wrote about it here:
http://planetquark.com/2008/09/02/gluon-propack-8-the-most-valuable-set-of-xtensions-you-can-buy/
One thing to remember about ProScale is that it’s FAR more capable than XPert Scale. Check out the description in this story:
http://planetquark.com/2008/04/15/the-most-powerful-scaler/
and you’ll see what I mean. It’s almost magic.