QuarkXPress 3.2, 3.3, 3.31, 3.32 or 4.03 or later must be installed on the Macintosh in order for proper installation of XPert Tools Volume Two.
Installing XPert Tools for use with QuarkXPress 3.x
When the “XPert Tools Volume Two (for QuarkXPress 3.x)” package is being installed, the installer will ask you to locate a copy of QuarkXPress 3.x (the installer will NOT allow you to install to copies of QuarkXPress 4.x).
When using XPert Tools Volume Two with QuarkXPress 3.x we recommend a minimum memory partition of eight megabytes for QuarkXPress.
Installing XPert Tools for use with QuarkXPress 4.x
XPert Tools Volume Two are now native QuarkXPress 4.0 optimized XTensions.
When the “XPert Tools Volume Two (for QuarkXPress 4.x)” package is being installed, the installer will ask you to locate a copy of QuarkXPress 4.x or greater (the installer will NOT allow you to install to copies of QuarkXPress earlier than 4.x). Please note that native 4.x optimized XTensions will not work with QuarkXPress 3.x (they will crash).
When using XPert Tools Volume Two with QuarkXPress 4.x we recommend a minimum memory partition of fifteen megabytes for QuarkXPress.
Known Problems
If either "auto save" or "auto backup" preferences are turned on in QuarkXPress, all entries within XPert JobLog will get lost. The problem is within QuarkXPress and we are working with their engineers on how to solve the problem. (Technically speaking, QuarkXPress is not preserving the document's resource fork when "auto save" or "auto backup" is activated.)
Demo Versions
A demo installation of XPert Tools Volume Two will turn QuarkXPress into demo mode. To get out of demo mode, simply remove every demo version of XPert Tools Volume Two from your QuarkXPress and/or XTension folder.
Change History:
Version 1.1.1
All XTensions have been updated for use with OS 8.5
Version 1.1
XPert CharacterStyles
- Added the ability to convert XPert CharacterStyles to QuarkXPress character styles. (4.x Only)
- Added the ability to convert QuarkXPress character styles to XPert CharacterStyles. (4.x Only)
- Added the ability to convert QuarkXPress paragraph styles to XPert CharacterStyles. (4.x Only)
XPert ItemMarks
- ItemMarks can now be applied to rotated items.
- ItemMarks can now be applied to lines.
XPert Pilot
- At times when opening a document from the Finder XPert Pilot could crash. Fixed.
XPert Preferences
- XPert Preference will not work with QuarkXPress 4.x or later.
XPert Scripter
- XPertScriptor could crash if the AppleScript system extesion was not load. Fixed.
XPert TextStyler
- When used with QuarkXPress 4.x, style attributes can be based on a QuarkXPress CharacterStyle sheet.
Version 1.0.3
All of the XPert Tool Volume Two XTensions are now available in French.
XPert CharacterStyles
- At times XPert CharacterStyles would not apply the correct Font when applying a style. Fixed
- At times XPert CharacterStyles would not apply the correct Color when applying a style. Fixed
XPert ItemMarks
- Added a new square black target type, this target type can be chosen from a pop-up
menu that has been added to the XPert ItemMarks Preference dialog.
XPert JobLog
- At times when saving templates XPert JobLog would cause QuarkXPress to report a
"File Not Found" error. Fixed.
XPert PageSets
- The XPert PageSets menu now appears as a pop-up menu with a document icon in it.
- At times the XPert PageSets menus would appear as frames - not pop-ups. Fixed.
- At times when attempting to add a new page set, QuarkXPress may have locked up. Fixed.
XPert Pilot
- Setting the Come, Home or Close key commands with Caps Lock key down did not work. Fixed.
XPert Rulers
- Dragging guides from XPert Rulers did not work properly when guides were set to back. Fixed.
XPertTextStyler
- At times when selecting an XPert CharacterStyles, the Font was not selected correctly. Fixed
- At times when selecting an XPert CharacterStyles, the Color was not selected correctly. Fixed
Version 1.0.2
All of the XPert Tool XTensions are now compatible with QuarkImmedia‚Ñ¢.
XPert BoxTools
- Added a vertical text alignment menu to the Item menu.
- Added a scale picture menu to the Picture Style menu.
- Added an align picture menu to the Picture Style menu.
- At times anchored picture boxes would cause the menu item Change Box to display random text. Fixed
- Increased compatibility with Adobe Type Reunion.
XPert CharacterStyles
- The Xpert CharacterStyles palette can now be attached to XPert CommandPad.
- Increased compatibility with Adobe Type Reunion.
XPert CommandPad
- Enhanced XPert ComandPad’s API.
- Inactive buttons now display disabled.
- Added ability to apply desktop patterns to palettes and buttons.
- Added intelligence to buttons. (eg. The Lock button displays either a open or closed lock depending on the state of the selected items.)
- Increased compatibility with Adobe Type Reunion.
XPert ItemMarks
- When launching the XPert ItemMarks preference from the Item > XPert ItemMarks Menu will now also create the marks when clicking OK to the dialog.
XPert Pilot
- At times, clicking in the Zoom Box could result in the XPert Pilot palette being positioned and resized incorrectly. Fixed.
XPert Rulers
- XPert Rulers could at times crash when XPert View was used to close all palettes. Fixed.
- At times XPert View’s menu will remain enabled (due to menu limitations) even though no documents were open. If you attempted to show the rulers QuarkXPress would crash. Fixed.
XPert Scripter
- Changed developer id so it would not conflict with the developer id that was already being used by XPert Nudge.
Version 1.0.1
XPert BoxTools
- "Align Item to Page" and "Textbox Insets" did not work correctly when used
from XPert CommandPad. Fixed.
- Incorrect assumptions were being made about QuarkXPress documents that at
times may have resulted in a crash. Fixed.
XPert CharacterStyles
- Unable to Append styles. Fixed.
- Script, Underline, and Caps Check boxes/Pop up menus in the Style QuickMenu
dialog box were horribly confused. Fixed.
- At times, applying a style item from the list would need two clicks. Fixed.
- At times, style names in the palettes list would become unreadable. Fixed.
- XPert CharacterStyles now allows you to edit styles in Master Page mode.
- XPert CharacterStyles would crash if it needed to activate the progress indicator. Fixed.
- Deleting and reassigning a color is now reflected within an XPert CharacterStyle.
- Fixes an incompatibility with the "BetterNew" feature found in the XTension DOUG.
- At times after a document was reverted, new CharacterStyles could not be created. Fixed.
- Sporadic crashing when the XPert CharacterStyles palette was visible (Thanks Amy). Fixed.
XPert ItemMarks
- There were times that XPert ItemMarks would attempt to create multi-selected
QuarkXPress items that would result in a crash. This usually happened if you
only selected crop marks in XPert ItemMarks preferences and then tried to create
marks. Fixed.
- Incorrect assumptions were being made about QuarkXPress documents that at
times may have resulted in a crash. Fixed.
XPert JobLog
- Added Preferences Dialog
- Now works correctly with QuarkXPress libraries. There were times that after using
a library with XPertJob Log XPress would become unstable. Fixed.
- At times, virus checkers would report that suspicious changes are being
attempted. Fixed.
XPert Scripter
- The "Labels" Dialog and "Edit Script Set" Dialog did accept mouse clicks. Fixed
- Improved reliability of XPert Scripter when running scripts under low memory conditions.
- Improved redrawing speed of Script Player palette.
Technical Support
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