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Automatic Numbers & Bullets in QuarkXPresss

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 [...]

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Kill PasteBoard XT

Markzware’s $29 PasteBoard XT is tremendously useful when you need to increase the space above and below your QuarkXPress pages while working on them.
However, the very first version of it, way back in the QuarkXPress 3 era, wrote code into each document requiring the XTension to be present when re-opening the document. Some of those [...]

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QuarkXPress and Xdata Free With Purchase of QuarkXPress 8

I’ve mentioned the remarkable Xdata XTension many times, including this video, and now you can get it for free when you buy a new copy of QuarkXPress 8. Below is the announcement that explains it all…
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XChange UK and ThePowerXChange are pleased to announce a new promotion starting January 4th 2010 that offers users a free [...]

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SpellBound: Much Better Spell Checking

CompuSense’s SpellBound is an XTension for QuarkXPress 4–8 that adds enormous power to XPress’ built-in spell checking. You can open up to five auxiliary dictionaries at the same time, use non-alphabetic characters in entries, use ligatures, and create an exception dictionary to specify the preferred alternative between two or more correctly spelled versions of the [...]

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