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Gluon’s ProBullets & Numbers is an XTension for QuarkXPress 6/7/8 that adds a feature that’s common in word processors: automatic bullets, numbers and indents.

You select multiple paragraphs of text on a QuarkXPress page, then choose among bullets, various numbering schemes, and whether to indent or not. Bullets don’t even have to be bullets: they can be any character from any font. Bullets and numbers can be bold or not, and styled with any existing Character style. Different levels of indent can have different numbering schemes and you can set the amount of indent — in other words, you have control over just about all the formatting.

If you change your mind, all bullets & numbers can be removed with one click. Unfortunately, the numbers don’t change if you edit the list, so you have to reapply the formatting after any changes.

Find out more about this $59 XTension at Gluon’s website. www.gluon.com

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In Acrobat, you can add a header and/or footer to a PDF by choosing Document> Header & Footer> Add…. There, you can choose a font and size, set its location on the page, enter text for Left, Center and Right headers and footers, and insert a page number and/or date.

Under the Appearance Options item in the Add Header and Footer dialog box, you can also force the PDF to shrink the items on the page to accommodate the header and footer (if necessary), and/or keep the position and size of the header and footer constant when pages in the PDF are of different sizes. The Page Range Options item lets you choose which page range to apply them to, and optionally Even or Odd pages only.

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Recently, I wrote a brief article in Macworld that covers the issues surrounding the use of fonts across platforms, including Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Windows.

It includes the short list of fonts you can count on having on all platforms, why documents created in Mac OS 9 may have “missing fonts” when opened in Mac OS X, when and why you SHOULD use the Bold and Italic buttons when formatting text (!), and more. Read it at http://www.macworld.com/article/144660/xplatype.html

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As Quark says on this Web page, “Want to improve the Quark Xperience? Drop your suggestion(s) here:”

http://forums.quark.com/39.aspx

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