Mindfire has deep experience developing Quark Xtensions (plug-ins, extensions) on both Windows and Mac OS X. We describe some of these Quark Xtension development project experiences below, and will be glad to share our expertise in detail with you.
Quark Xpress Tools Suite (Universal Binary)
A Leading Software Products Provider for Publishing/Imaging software
Industry:
Imaging/Publishing Industry Business Domain
Technologies:
Mac OS X (Intel & PPC), Quark XPress 7.x, Codewarrior 9.x, Xcode 2.x
This is a complete suite of Universal Binary tools for Quark XPress 7.x, to simplify everyday tasks with over a dozen essential XTensions. Some of the features/tools include: • View your fonts in their own typeface • View and navigate multi-spread documents quickly • Drag and drop images and text documents directly from the Mac OSX Finder into XPress 7 documents Most of these tools are new. There is also a set of tools migrated and enhanced from XPress 6.x to 7.x, involving: • Migration from CodeWarrior to Xcode • Migration from PPC to Universal Binary
PDF electronic forms authoring in Quark XPress
Leading Documents Security and Forms Automation Solutions Provider
Industry:
Secure Documents/Forms Industry
Technologies:
Quark XPress, Adobe PDF, PDFMark, PostScript Standards, Adobe Distiller, C++, XML, JavaScript, Codewarrior, VC++, CVS, Mac OS X, Windows XP
This is an AcroForms-like environment as it exists in Adobe Acrobat Professional within Quark XPress 6.x on both Windows and MacOSX. This allows users to create PDF forms based on existing Quark XPress documents. This includes a PDF form fields importer feature allowing a PDF's form fields to be imported onto Quark XPress documents. Essentially, to allow a user to use existing PDF forms for creation of an electronic form via Quark XPress documents.
Attribute Editor for Quark6 and InDesign CS
A Classified Advertising company
Industry:
Publishing
Technologies:
C/C++, Quark QDR, Adobe InDesign CS SDK, Adobe Dialog Manager
The software follows text and inline classified ads in columns, and there by applies several paragraph and character attributes to it. Provided tools can perform several actions on the ads, such as selection, cut, copy and paste of whole ads, reflow of ads with and without headers, kept slug info of the picture files. The software is available for Indesign and Quark on both Mac and Windows.
