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- Become a Quark VS InDesign.com member (free), and;
- Throw your name into the giveaway hat at the bottom of this page.
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That’s all. No purchase or song and dance necessary. A winner will be chosen at random from those who enter on this page.
This contest has ended. On 2008-06-16 we gave
Arabic XT for QuarkXPress v6 or 7 from Layout LTD
To Peter H. of Uxbridge, Middlesex United Kingdom
Congratulations, Peter! Get some prizes for yourself on our Contests & Giveaways page.
The QuarkXPress XTension We Gave Away This Time
Arabic XT for QuarkXPress v6 or 7 (Mac Only)
QuarkXPress XTension from Layout LTD
ArabicXT, the award-winning Arabic desktop publishing software solution, transforms QuarkXPress, the most widely used publishing software worldwide from Quark, Inc., into a professional Arabic desktop publishing (DTP) software. ArabicXT 7.0 allows you to publish in Arabic and to create outstanding designs for both print and electronic media.
Using ArabicXT 7.0 in conjunction with QuarkXPress, anyone can learn to create superb bi-directional page layouts, producing top-quality professional Arabic and Latin publications. All this with no need for an Arabic operating system!
Since first introduced in 1992, ArabicXT has been adopted by thousands of publishing companies around the world. ArabicXT is widely used by newspapers, magazines, book publishers, catalogue houses, printers, prepress houses, advertising agencies and design firms.
ArabicXT with QuarkXPress Passport
ArabicXT can also be used with QuarkXPress Passport, the multi-lingual version of QuarkXPress, which allows users to justify, hyphenate and spell check text in 11 languages, including International English, U.S English, French, Spanish, Swiss, German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian.
Features & Benefits
• Create eye-catching Arabic-language Web documents to export as HTML documents and post directly on a website
• Gain more control over your Arabic layout spaces
• Convert your Arabic print-based designs to Arabic Web-based designs or vice-versa, within one file. You can even include an Arabic Web layout and a print layout in the same file and share Arabic text content between the two.
• Synchronise Arabic text among different layout spaces for greater accuracy: Include the same Arabic language text in multiple layout spaces and synchronise it between different layout spaces. You can then edit this synchronised Arabic text in one layout space, and it will automatically be changed in other layout spaces.
• Manage tables efficiently – You can link text cells to one another, or to any text box, in a mixed Latin-Arabic page layout. You can also easily set the tab order of cells, thus customising your tables.
• Multiple Undos – Enjoy this feature to reverse one action or a series of actions including text and picture import, text linking style sheet edits and much more.
• Automatic Kashida insertion using powerful Kashida algorithms for perfect justification.
• Automatic vertical & horizontal positioning of vowels over characters
• Drop word over several lines at the beginning of paragraphs
• Controllable Ligature selection
• Mix Arabic and Latin text in the same text box
• Flip page layout from right to left or left to right
• Bilingual find and replace
• Import Arabic text from Macintosh or Windows word processors
• Export Arabic text for editing in other Arabic word processors
• Copy and Paste text attributes on a character level basis
• Change of attributes of a specific language within a mixed selection range
• Improved handling of Style Sheets
• Enhanced Arabic “Flip Document Layout” feature to handle lines and bezier curves
• Support “text to box” feature of QuarkXPress directly in an Arabic textbox
• Convert “text to table” and “table to text” for the Arabic text
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