Introduction

FitInXT is a desktop publishing copyfitting solution designed to allow publishers, to automatically adjust and copy fit a text within a QuarkXPress box. FitInXT is mainly used by operators working in the layout departments of newspapers and magazines. FitInXT is a user-friendly QuarkXPress XTensionsT that saves time by transforming formerly complicated manual text copyfitting tasks into exceedingly simple procedures.

From now on, you can quickly and instantly copy fit text to box, box to text, and fit box to picture. With FitInXT, you can now choose one and more attributes to create your own fitting style sheets and then save them once and for all.

FitInXT enables you to insert inter-box and inter-column rules using predefined and easily edited rule style sheets. Again, you create these style sheets once and enjoy their properties as long as you wish. To achieve conformity, you can even have your colleagues abide to the same style sheets.

FitInXT allows you to temporarily display overflowed text by a simple mouse click on the red text overflow mark at the lower right corner of the text box. You can receive warning of text overflow while printing.

FitInXT eliminates these manual, repetitive and annoying tasks, known in the publishing business for wasting valuable time and money!
It is time to bid farewell to those manual fitting tasks which, for too long, have taken so much of your time and energy.

FitInXT: Compatible with MAC OS X
FitInXT 2.1 runs flawlessly under QuarkXPress 6.0 for MAC OS X.

Why FitInXT?
• Cost Effective: Affordable Price of $130 USD (FOB Beirut Price)- More than pays for itself, now that costly errors are eliminated

• Learning Curve nearly non-existent

• A QuarkXPress XTensions

• On-the-fly copy fitting of boxes to save on both time and labor costs

• Very reliable: Meet deadlines in today's high-pressured world of publishing on time your newspaper or magazine

• Its User-Friendly Floating Palette: FitInXT is controlled through the use of A floating palette which navigates along the working area and which allows the user to easily select among the different tool options and in one click of a mouse.



Features & Benefits

• Copy fit text to box or to line using pre-defined and easily-edited copy fitting style sheets according to fixed user-defined attribute percentages. FitInXT allows you to change any of the below attributes in order to force a text or block to fit into a defined space.

Attribute changes:
   1 - Text point size
   2 - Kerning & tracking
   3 - Vertical or horizontal scaling
   4 - Leading space between text lines
   5 - Paragraph spacing

• Instant Copy Fitting box to text by vertically increasing or decreasing size of box

• Instant Copy Fitting box to picture by vertically increasing or decreasing size of box

• Insert inter-box or inter-column rules using pre-defined & easily-edited rule style sheets
   1- Horizontal and Vertical Inter-Box Rules
   2- Vertical Inter-Column Rules

Properties:
   1- Line style: solid, dotted, dashed & more
   2- Line end-caps (arrowheads)
   3- Shade & width (fixed value or percentage of distance between boxes or columns)
   4- Length

• Copy boxes - single, selected or grouped - to same location. With regard to page coordinates, this feature forces pasting of items in same location as initially copied items.

• Temporarily display text overflow by clicking & holding down the mouse on the red overflow mark at the lower right corner of a text box - text overflow appears within a floating block for viewing and word count.

• Receive warning of text overflow while printing

• Display word & line count in a text box or article

• Find options:
   1- Find First text overflow box
   2- Find Next text overflow box
   3- Find Previous text overflow box


Who is FitInXT's target audience?
FitInXT is an ideal DTP solution for high-end publishers. This market segment is mainly comprised of publishers working especially in publishing institutions such as Newspapers, Magazines, Design houses, Service bureaus, and Printing presses.

This market uses Desktop publishing solutions in their daily procedures. They extensively search for solutions that save both time and labor cost and which ensure that all deadlines are met on time.

Try FitInXT before you buy it!
Click here to download your FREE FitInXT Demo Version



System Requirements

FitInXT Version 2.1 (USB)
• Power PC G3 or faster processor
• Mac OS X- Native Mode
• CD-ROM drive (for Installation)
• 4MB Available Memory RAM
• 2MB Free Hard Disk Space for Full Installation
• Parent Application: QuarkXPress version 6.X

FitInXT Version 2.0 (ADB or USB)
• Power PC G3 or faster processor
• Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X Classic Mode
• CD-ROM drive (for Installation)
• 4MB Available Memory RAM
• 2MB Free Hard Disk Space for Full Installation
• Parent Application: QuarkXPress version 5.0