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Custom XTensions for QuarkXPress®

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LokPik Antidote

Macintosh Freeware
Append Hyphenation Exceptions
Break Picture Links
CaseIT
Cursor Position
Default Tab
Page Shadow
Preview
ProVJ
Sort Text
Step & Repeat Default
Text Insets
TruNew

Windows Freeware
Append Hyphenation Exceptions
Break Picture Links
CaseIT
Cursor Position
Page Shadow
ProVJ
SmallCrops
Sort Text
Step & Repeat Default
Text Insets

ProVJ changes the way QuarkXPress vertically justifies a text box. Instead of adding extra space between all paragraphs (and sometimes between all lines), ProVJ adds space only before paragraphs that already have some "Space Before" set in the paragraph format. In addition, the space that is added is proportional to the amount of "Space Before" that is already present.

One of my beta testers was kind enough to write a review:

Durrant Software has done the Quark community an absolutely wonderful service in providing ProVJ. Once installed and activated it allows one to forget entirely about vertical justification. Overcoming QuarkXPress's totally unacceptable method for reaching the page's bottom, ProVJ automatically follows long-ago established protocols in the book-making world—and it does so without any thought on the formatter's part.

Otto Barz, YBK Publishers, New York, NY

My thanks to Brad Walrod for the original idea for this XTensions module and for much correspondence and testing.

Version 1.2 fixes a small bug in versions 1.0 and 1.1, which prevented extra space being added to any paragraph that followed a paragraph that had a rule below.

Be sure to download the correct version for your version of QuarkXPress.

Download  ProVJ 1.2 for Macintosh QuarkXPress 7.01 and above

Download  ProVJ 1.2 for Macintosh QuarkXPress 6.x

Download  ProVJ 1.2 for Macintosh QuarkXPress 4.1x and 5.01

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