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Software Suppliers to the Graphic Arts Industry
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Bar Code Software
All the information you need about bar codes is in "The Bar Code Book" by Roger C. Palmer.
- Azalea Software, Inc. bar code products for Microsoft Windows, the Macintosh, and other platforms and include fonts in both TrueType and Type 1 PostScript format. PDF417, UPC, Bookland EAN (ISBN), C39, C128, Interleaved 2 of 5, POSTNET, Codabar, MSI-Plessy, OCR-A, OCR-B.
- Bar Code Graphics Bar code information, as well as a service which enables users to create barcodes online.
Pre-printed pressure sensitive labels and bar code labeling software.
- Bar Code Info barcode information, software and equipment.
- BarCode 1 They don't sell any bar code products. They offer information about bar code free of charge. Bar code basics, user group, shareware, books, links, bar code specs and statistics
- BarTender Seagull Scientific, Inc. offers three Editions of BarTender in order to meet the requirements of all levels of users.
BarTender's three product editions provide full printer support for high-speed label printing as well as standard office printers, such as laser, ink-jet, dot-matrix and label printers with existing Windows drivers.
Numerous supported symbologies, including 2D codes: Regular and Full ASCII Code 3-of-9 (including LOGMARS, HIBC, AIAG, etc.); Code 128 (including all UCC/EAN-128 & Shipping Container Codes); Interleaved 2-of-5; UPC-A & E; UPC Supplementals; Code 93; Postal Bar Codes (including Zip+4 and DPBC); Codabar; EAN-8 & 13; JAN; MSI Plessey; PDF417; Code 1 (Intermec printers only); Data Matrix; Maxicode (Windows 2000/NT, 98/95/ME, DOS)
- CIA Bar Code Pro (Windows) software.
- Code 39 Bar Code Font Free Bar Code 39 TTF font.
- Infinity Graphics labels, EPS images, and film negatives/positives for bar codes, UPC, Bookland EAN (ISBN) for books sold by bookstores, UCC/EAN-128 Coupon Extended Code, European Article Number (EAN-13) for international applications, Shipping Container Symbol, National Drug Code (NDC) and National Health Related Items Code (NHRIC) for pharmaceutical products, Pharmacode, Codabar for library, blood bank, and air parcel express applications, Code 39 for parts and products in the auto, defense, and health industries, Code 128 for compact, complex product identification, Interleaved 2 of 5 Shipping Container Symbol (SCS), FIM and POSTNET Postal Codes.
- Peninsula Barcode Makes over 120 code types. Supports all the industry standard code types. It also supports all the other types you may wish for, categories include codes for Medical, Industrial, Retail, Publishing and many others. Produces many output formats. Illustrator Eps is standard. Also outputs picts, tiffs and metafiles even, wait for it, Text. Thanks to our unique technology. Compatible with all applications. Mac and Windows versions available.
- SNX Bar Code Pro (Mac) software, hardware, and services.
- TEC-IT Barcode Software, Data
Acquisition Tools, and Printer Management solutions.
The bar-coding tools supporting linear as well as two-dimensional symbologies like PDF417, MaxiCode
and Data Matrix. They are available for Windows, and UNIX-Variants. Beside Barcode ActiveX-controls, Barcode DLL's and Shared Libraries, a bar-coding extension for SAP R/3 is available too.
You can even create bar codes online! Demo versions and data sheets are available for free download.
- WASP Bar Code Labeler Wasp Bar Code is the industry leader for bar code office products. Wasp Bar Code has revolutionized the bar code industry by making these productivity solutions intuitive for small business, yet powerful enough to be used by Fortune 500 companies. More importantly, Wasp Bar Code offers time saving tools at a price point that anyone can afford.
Mac and Windows versions available.
- Zebra barcode software and equipment.
- Universal Code Council Inc. Maintains an extensive list of vendors for just about anything dealing with UPC and bar codes.
Clip Art & Logo Artwork
- Art Explosion Art Explosion 750,000. The Ultimate Library of Premium-Quality Clip Art Macintosh (48 CD-ROM set). Art Explosion is the #1 selling brand of Macintosh clip art year in and year out. And for good reason. You get unparalleled variety, unrivaled organization and a level of quality unmatched by the competition. And you get important tools many other clip art products leave out--like two CD-ROM keep-safe portfolios and a two-volume image catalog system spanning 1800 pages. Art Explosion is, quite simply, the best Macintosh graphics library money can buy.
- Clipart Free clipart.
- ArtToday Free and subscription clipart. 750,000 images and 200 fonts - plus a screaming-fast search engine - for only $2.50 a month!
- ClickArt® Infinity ClickArt Infinity gives you more than 500,000 stunning images, and you can easily edit them just the way you want!
You can also alter your personal photos, send fun 3D animated greetings, and design quality invitations, greeting cards, signs, banners, and more! ClickArt Infinity is perfect for updating your Web pages, too!
- Clipart.com The Net's best clipart, font, photo and Web graphic links according to the site.
- ClipartCity.com When you need clipart images, Web graphics, animated objects or photos, ClipartCity.com offers a world of online images at your fingertips.
Sign up and receive FREE unlimited access to 10,000 vector clipart and 100,000 Web art images.
Or get a yearly subscription for access to over 1,000,000 high-quality images.
- Corbis Images for a fee.
- Corel Clip Art Looking for CorelDRAW® and Corel PHOTO-PAINT® freebies? Download free clipart, brushes, frames and more from Designer.com.
- Freefoto.com Free and commercial images.
- Freeimages.com Free and commercial images.
- Kwikee Auto Advertising System Automobile manufacturer logos, pictures of cars, etc.
It is supported by the auto manufacturers and is used by the agencies that do car ads for newspapers. An extremely economical subscription service.
- La Logotheque Download company logos in Adobe Illustrator format.
The site is in French, but you can use AltaVista to translate.
The current content is: "All the logos available on this site are recorded by their respective owners and are subject to regulation for their use.
They are in Adobe Illustrator®(" ai ") format compressed with the ".zip" format.
The previews are in ".GIF" formats. The logos are classified alphabetically by company owner.
Certain known logos can be referred under another name, ex: KLEENEX is recorded under HUGGIES."
- Logo Type 100% free logos.
- Metro Creative Graphics Metro® Newspaper Service - art, photos and ideas in color and black & white.
Each monthly issue is jam-packed with perfectly timed ideas and ad themes that cover every salable event and important advertiser category.
This indispensable resource is one that every publication needs.
- Pro Logo Clipart An annoying front door, but people seem to like the clip art.
- Pro Seasonal Clipart Another annoying front door, brought to by the same Pro Logo people.
- TDI Clipart $1.25/image downloadable clipart.
Online catalog provides instant access to over 40,000 stock logos.
You can peruse the catalog, find exactly what you need, and download in a matter of minutes!
With over eight years direct experience and over 3000 clients around the world, T.D.I. are confident that they are the best in the business.
They digitize all of their logos by hand in a CAD system, never using a scanner.
Desktop Publishing Software
- Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker, PhotoShop, etc.
- Corel CorelDraw!, WordPerfect, etc.
- Dezign Supplies thousands of stock photos, fonts and hundreds of software packages.
- Elk River Systems Ticket design and numbering Software. TicketBench PRO and VenueBench.
TicketBench™ ticket printing software. Create your own event tickets with an easy click and drop environment.
Use TicketBench, TicketBench & VenueBench to design and print; Reserved Seating Tickets, Admission Tickets, Raffle Tickets, Table Seating Tickets, Membership Cards, Coupons, Gift Certificates. For your convenience we also have custom perforated paper in a
variety of colors. Elk River can also print your event tickets for you using color or black and white laser printed tickets.
- Extensis imaging, production, layout and freeware for creative professionals. QuarkXPress and PhotoShop plugins.
- Imation Data Storage, Document Imaging, Kodak Medical Imaging and Dry Technologies, Photo Products Home, Printing & Proofing, Products, Software, Specialty Papers, Digital Solutions, SuperDisk, Imation Publishing Software
- Macromedia Web & DTP software. Flash and Shockwave.
- MetaCreations image manipulation, 3D web solutions and 3D applications, web and graphics applications. KPT Goo, Kai's Power Tools, Painter, Infini-D, Ray Dream, Bryce, Poser, Carrara, Canoma, etc.
- Microsoft Corporation MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Publisher, etc.
- Pantone, Inc. color matching systems.
- Quark QuarkXPress
- Rena Systems, Inc. software and equipment for direct mail.
- Strider Software TypeStyler provides styled and special effects type to Illustrator, FreeHand, PageMaker, Photoshop, PageMill, XPress, MS Word and other popular programs
- ThinkFree Office Your workplace in cyberspace. A Web-based suite of office software you access and use with your web browser from any Internet connection. Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, E-mail. Free access regardless of your operating system.
Estimating Systems
- Crouser Guide to Estimating Small Press Printing
- Franklin Estimating Systems Franklin Estimator contains valuable information for the printing professional and provides a comprehensive, real-time shop floor data collection system.
- Graphic Arts IT offers hosted web applications that provide custom tailored order entry and order fulfillment solutions over the Internet. These premiere, managed applications are designed to meet the real world demands of business-to-business order entry and fulfillment. In addition, GAIT offers scalable fulfillment management software, programming services and consulting --plus robust back-end management systems that can be deployed on your web site or ours.
- Optimus 2020 Optimus of Optichrome Computer Systems, England. Around 550 installations worldwide, it’s a highly regarded Management Information System for the printing industry. Not just estimating, it’s a complete system including around 20 different modules. Be prepared to boil a pot of tea and eat some crumpets while you wait (and wait) for their Flash "enhanced" site to get to the meat and potatoes.
- Pace A Printing Management System for commercial and in-plant print shops having sheet fed, web, business forms or screen printing presses as well as prep houses and specialty printers. Windows NT.
- PowerQuote Estimating & management software for printing companies that want to sell more, print more, save time and become more organized.
This easy to use system makes estimating a breeze; at a price even small shops can afford ! Estimates are based on actual production rates, not just a price list. Built-in rates that you can fine tune to match your shop. Works in harmony with your existing accounting system. Handles offset printing, copy jobs, brokered jobs and more. Others have Mac software as a neglected sideline, but PowerQuote is exclusively Macintosh!
- Print Shop Manager Pricing/Estimating/Accounting: For Small to Medium Commercial and Quick Print Shops. Print Shop Manager was designed from the ground up with speed and ease of use in mind. The owner or manger of a printing establishment can be assured that pricing and accounting are handled easily and consistently for every job and every customer. Windows.
- Printer's Plan Soft USE, Inc.
- Printer's Plus Creative Software Specialists, LLC. Providing business management software for the printing industry since 1983. Windows, Unix, Xenix.
- PrintPoint The PrintPoint 4.0 Graphic Arts Management System is a full-featured estimating, job costing, and invoicing system that will help you run your shop the way you've always wanted to run it. Mac & Windows.
- PrintScore PrintScore is a comprehensive and versatile software package aimed primarily at the small and medium-sized printer. Complete information and a demo and tour are available at its website. The software includes the following full modules: estimating, customer database, jobs database, supplier database, point of sale system, accounting, reports, utilities, help, etc. Windows 95/98 or Windows NT.
- PrintSmith M Data
- printLEADER Visual printLEADER/IAS ADVANCE! represents a new era of business management and accounting software for Windows 95 / 98 / NT that will meet and exceed the needs of the small through medium size printing, copying, and graphic arts business. It provides the ability to sort and select voluminous data in fractions of a second at affordable prices.
- QuickEst According to Mark Meyers, QuickEst is the fastest, most comprehensive
estimating program available at any price - yet it is easy to learn and far easier to use than any other estimating application, bar none! Rather than drill down through many layers of overlapping windows on your screen (most
of us simply get lost or disoriented when we're more than two or three windows deep) QuickEst was designed to capture ALL the detail spec's for an estimate on a single scrollable
window, right up front where you need it. The QuickEst developers believe it offers such a huge leap in estimating productivity that you will want
to download the FREE , no-strings demo and use it in your plant for a full 30 day evaluation. Windows.
- SmartQuotes Legacy Software. Fast, economical estimates, quotes, order entry, and invoicing for printers. Mac & Windows.
- Tailored Solutions print
management software systems aimed at the medium size sheetfed commercial printer and narrow web flexographic printer.
File Extensions and Acronyms
OK. It's not actually software, but sometimes you get a file with an extension you've never seen before. "What application created it?" you ask.
Well, take a look at this site for the answer:
Fonts
- Adobe Type - commercial fonts.
- Agfa| MonoType - commercial fonts.
- Astigmatic One Eye - shareware and freeware fonts.
- Bitstream - commercial fonts.
- Chank - freeware and commercial fonts.
- DincType - freeware and commercial fonts.
- DsngHaus - commercial fonts.
- Emigre - commercial fonts.
- Etherbrian - freeware fonts.
- EyeWire - commercial fonts.
- Free Font Archive from Luc Devroye, School of Computer Science, McGill University
- Fontalicious - freeware fonts.
- Fontastic! - shareware or freeware fonts.
- Fontpool - shareware or freeware fonts.
- Fuelfonts - shareware fonts.
- Identifont A font identifier site that enables you to identify a font from a sample by answering a series of simple questions.
It is ideal if you want to match an existing typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a publication.
Identifont includes information about fonts from most of the major type libraries, including Adobe, Agfa-Monotype, Berthold, Bitstream, FontFont, ITC, Linotype, and P22.
- Larabie Fonts - shareware or freeware fonts.
- Letraset - commercial fonts.
- Mac Font Vault - shareware or freeware fonts.
- True Type Resource - shareware or freeware fonts. The interviews, friday nite type fights, font of the moment, the latest fonts from..., who wants to name a font, who wants to make a font, font archive, every known font site (links), fontplay, site reviews, articles & commentary, profiles, FAQ's, newsletter, resources.
Keyboard Alternatives
- Dvorak Keyboard Layout Almost everyone I know who's tried Dvorak thinks it's great, and many claim it has changed their life for the better. But your mileage might vary. Here are some factors that might make switching to Dvorak more or less desireable for you. Learning: Dvorak is much easier to learn than QWERTY, especially for new typists like your kids. Most schools will let kids use Dvorak if you ask. Beginning lessons designed for Dvorak can be much more productive (and interesting) because you can type thousands of real words on the home row. Speed: With careful training, it seems most QWERTY typists can switch to Dvorak and regain their old speed in about a month. After that, it's all gravy. Some people have had trouble regaining their old speed. This seems to happen if they don't give up QWERTY entirely while they retrain, or if they train too hard. If you have to type constantly and can't afford to lose a few weeks' work, I suggest you put off switching until you can take some time off. Although many people achieve much higher speeds in Dvorak, a few have complained that they still can't type much faster after switching, especially fast QWERTY typists (perhaps 60 or more WPM). Even so, they usually find Dvorak more comfortable. Comfort: Dvorak wins this contest hands down. The Dvorak keymap is carefully adapted to the English language. For example, most typing in Dvorak takes place on the home row, so your fingers and hands don't have to move around so much. Dvorak also divides words more evenly between hands, so one hand isn't typing whole words like agree, fact, grass, greater, opinion, regard... Although Dvorak has alleviated some people's repetitive-stress injury (RSI) symptoms, don't neglect other forms of prevention and treatment. Nothing is a cure-all. Accuracy: Most people have trouble typing some letter combinations. In QWERTY, the most frequently mistyped words are short, common, and easy to spell; many are only two or three letters long. Dvorak has typing "demons" too, but they tend to be longer and harder to spell. Only one ("new") is shorter than four letters. Compatibility: This is the point on which QWERTY still wins. The people who have switched back to QWERTY from Dvorak did so primarily because of this problem. Every popular personal computer (back to the IBM PC/XT, Apple IIGS, and Amiga at least) can be easily remapped to Dvorak, but there are still some situations when it can be inconvenient, difficult, or even impossible.
Mailing Software
- Accuzip mailing software.
- Bear Rock Bear Rock Technologies has been providing bar code software and hardware solutions for Windows, DOS and Macintosh customers for the past twelve years. They feature a full line of products, including fonts, Labeling Software, graphic utilities, portable and desktop readers.
- Firstlogic Desktop Products Automate your mail process with affordable desktop products designed especially for Windows users. The Firstlogic DeskTop products include: Postalsoft DeskTop Mailer® and Postalsoft DeskTop PostalCoder®.
- Mail Right specializes in the needs of the mailing industry. This company is dedicated to fulfilling the educational, software and equipment needs of businesses who are committed to providing mailing services.
- Mailers Software Postal automation software and services.
- Melissa Data Software, components, database, and services. Users report Excellent customer support,
easy interface.
- Neopost mailing software and equipment.
Numbering Software
- Auto-Number The Macintosh program is
used in place of a numbering machine on such jobs as raffle tickets, invoices, gift certificates, etc.
The site offers a demo version, complete with instructions for anyone to review.
PDF & Prepress
Creating separations from PDF files:
Method 1. Place your PDF in a Quark XPress, Adobe Illustrator, or Adobe InDesign document and print separations to a postscript printer.
(In the case of Quark, when you export a PDF as EPS, you MUST use Level 1 PostScript. Quark will not separate an EPS that uses Level2 or 3 operators.)
Method 2. Use Lantana's Crackerjack or Adobe Acrobat InProduction to create separations right from the PDF.
To check for overprint, use Enfocus' PitStop to detect the overprint status of objects.
You'll have to use your imagination to "see" the separations, or Adobe Acrobat InProduction will allow you to detect the overprint status of objects AND see color separations with the Separator tool.
What if your customer sends you a PDF with RGB text as well as images? After color correcting the images to CMYK using an Acrobat plugin, export the file as an EPS from Acrobat. Open it in Illustrator, select and group all the text and then change it from 0R, 0G and 0B to CMYK, 100% black.
- Adobe DTP software.
- Agfa high-end imaging hardware, software and digital imaging products.
- Ari's Toolbox Acrobat plugin 'Ari's Crop helper' from Dionis. More functionality than the crop tool that is built in to Acrobat.
- Enfocus PitStop lets you preflight your PDF documents, so that you find mistakes before you publish. It guides you to problems and lets you edit them either interactively or automatically. Features: Preflight and check the use of fonts, colors and images; On screen PDF editability; Guided correction; Use any font, embedded or system, when editing text; Paragraph editing and reflow of text; Spot color and named color support; Global change; and Search-and-correct.
- DynaStrip DynaStrip high-end imposition software includes features such as sheet layering and individual color control. Import/export PDF pages/signatures with no conversion to PostScript, output automation with the Page Pairing option, and import templates from competing products and use and edit them as DynaStrip templates.
- Extensis Preflight Pro prefighting software.
- ImageXpress ScanPrepPro is an award-winning plug-in that automates Photoshop's tools to produce top quality color separations, halftones, and line art. Pull-down menus, multiple choice selections, and built-in recommendations guide you to stunning results instantly.
- Intense Software PDF Seps2Comp enables users to merge separated PDF files back into fully editable composite documents. The composite document is a live, editable document - not a rasterized image -that can be manipulated and saved in the same manner as any other PDF file.PDF Seps2Comp provides for a fully composite workflow that is ideal for computer-to-plate and film-based prepress workflows. Users can now combine separated PDF files that originate from formats such as CopyDot, DCS 2.0, TIFF-IT, CT/LW, and separated PostScript from a variety of applications including Adobe PageMaker, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. The plug-in allows all types of separated files to be merged, including CMYK and spot color separations. PDF Seps2Comp can also take separated PDF files from QuarkXPress and integrate them back into composite documents that preserve the trapping done in XPress. PDF Seps2Comp allows users to save and load custom inks and ink sets, while preserving all of the original ink usage and overprinting information.
- Kandu Software Corp CADMOVER file converter for Autocad to Illustrator, plus a variety of other converters.
- Lantana Crackerjack and PDF ImageWorks. Crackerjack enables PDF-based color production printing. This plug-in extends the usability of PDF through expert control of print output and devices, such as imagesetters, proofers, platemakers, digital presses, and plotters. It uniquely provides buttons and dials for user tuning of output position, scaling, separations, screening, stored settings, etc. Crackerjack generates composite color PostScript files with in-RIP separations commands to yield significant performance improvements. PDF ImageWorks, a native image editing program for Acrobat, permits image editing and manipulation of PDF images where they appear in the PDF document, does not require any additional external applications, and is designed to meet user needs for control over image selection, integration, appearance and usability.
Lantana's PDF PowerPack bundle includes CheckUp (preflight) and PitStop (editing) from Enfocus, Imposing Plus (imposition) from Quite, and Crackerjack (output control) and PDF ImageWorks (image editing) from Lantana. Also included is "Adobe Acrobat and PDF Workflow" from Digital Media, an interactive tutorial CD for training and reference purposes. This collection is an excellent way to get started doing PDF print production.
- Linotype-Hell Co. prepress and press to postpress equipment and software solutions. Now part of Heidelberg.
- Markzware FlightCheck prefighting software.
- OneVision OneVision Plug-Ins, ASURA, SOLVERO, DIGISCRIPT, DIGISERVER, and IMPOSITION solutions for secure production are being used in over 500 commercial printing, newspaper, prepress and service bureaus in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. OneVision provides software solutions for secure and error-free processing of PS, PDF, and EPS files, two tools for repairing, correcting, and streamlining the data in your workflow. Our software is the ideal tool for all companies of the graphic arts and printing industry, such as publishing and printing houses, service bureaus, copy and print shops, advertising agencies, DTP studios a must-have for Newspapers or anyone who handles digital data. A close dialog with the printing industry enables us to provide innovative products that meet the requirements of the market. The seamless integration of our software solutions into any production environment copes with your demand for fast, secure, and clean production lines.
- PagePath Job Monitor DDC workflow software.
- PDFZone PDFzone.com provides the most timely and useful information on PDF and Acrobat on the Internet. With PDFzone.com's expert resources, vibrant discussion lists, comprehensive tool collection and timesaving tips and techniques, Acrobat, PDF and document management professionals receive solid information to help tackle their PDF and Acrobat projects. The sense of community that PDFzone.com facilitates is a driving force in the continual creation of relevant resources. The site brings together a broad spectrum of users worldwide, along with relevant hardware and software vendors, to share experiences and to learn from one another. Members of our PDF community play an active role in contributing reality-tested information through various channels within PDFzone.com. This information, in turn, helps their peers make the most effective use of Acrobat/PDF in a variety of applications across a wide range of backgrounds.
- Planet PDF is a comprehensive, popular and
independent Web site exclusively focused on Adobe Acrobat/PDF users and
uses. We also offer many free tools and useful plug-ins for Acrobat.
- Quite Software, Inc. Quite A Box Of Tricks was the first mass-market Acrobat plug-in to allow conversion of RGB information to CMYK in a PDF file using an ICC profile. It also generates low resolution images from high resolution images in a PDF. The features of Quite Imposing Plus have been expanded to recognize separated PDF files and produce separated impositions.
- Scenic Soft/Luminous Color Central, OPI and print management solution. This server-based software also automates printing activity. TRAPWISE is digital trapping software that can handle even the most complex PostScript elements. Use TrapWise with any single-page EPS or multi-page DSC-compliant PostScript file. You can either trap automatically, or from your Mac OS workstation specify trap settings, define printing preferences, and preview fonts, images and inks. Then simply drop the file into a trap queue and move on to your next job. Your file is automatically sent to TrapWise on your Windows NT server, offloading trap processing and creating a PostScript file that's ready for output. PRESSWISE is digital imposition software to quickly and easily impose most any variety of flat and folding layouts. PressWise accepts PostScript language and PDF (Portable Document Format) files from leading applications for compatibility with your existing workflows. PREPS A complete prepress imposition and print management solution that electronically imposes job pages into signatures. ScenicSoft's flagship product designed to fit into the traditional printing workflow.
- Wincore ToPress performs the color separation needed for offset printing. You can offset print documents generated by Windows versions of Microsoft Publisher®, Word®, Excel® PowerPoint® and other Windows® applications.
Operating Systems
Utilities
- Aladdin Systems Mac compression and binhex utilities: Stuffit, Stuffit Expander
- DataViz MacOpener 2000; Open Mac files on a Windows PC. MacOpener 2000 lets you use Mac media on your Windows PC, just as if they were Windows media. Copy files to and from Macintosh disks. Format disks as Mac disks on your Windows PC. Read Mac CD ROM's on your PC. MacOpener 2000 lets you get to Mac disks from the Windows desktop or any programs "Save as" or "Open" menu. Also, you can just double-click on the drive that contains the Mac disk, and all the files on the disk will be visible to you - just as if you were looking at a Windows disk!
Conversions Plus is a suite of utilities that converts files to and from various Windows, DOS and Mac formats - and keeps the original formatting. Included is MacOpener 2000, which allows you to mount Mac media on your PC.
- MacZipIt Mac compression and binhex utilities: ZipIt. Great Mac shareware for compressing and de-compressing both Mac and Windows files.
- MagicCookie Monster Concerned about what all those cookies are saying about you? This Mac freeware application helps manage Netscape Navigator/Communicator and Internet Explorer cookies. It provides information on what those cookies are telling the web sites who install them on your browser. Inspect and selectively delete individual entries from your browser's cookie file.
- MediaFour MacDrive 2000; Wish you could get to the documents on a Mac disk by simply popping it into your Windows PC? With MacDrive 2000, you can!Because MacDrive makes Mac disks of nearly every kind work just like any other disks, you can copy, open, save, delete and rename files on Mac disks anytime. So, it’s not only a great way to get Mac files to Windows—it’s also a great way to get Windows files to a Mac. You can even format Mac disks from Windows! Support for Microsoft Windows 2000, in addition to support for Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0.
- Network ICE BlackICE Defender is an industrial grade dynamic firewall system that detects hackers, identifies them, and protects your PC from break-ins. BlackICE Defender is a must for home-PCs, telecommuters and VPNs. The consumer version of BlackICE features the same powerful intrusion detection, monitoring and protection offered in the corporate version. This product presents an easy to use interface designed for all levels of users while still providing configuration flexibility to security savvy users."It represents a new generation of software that I highly recommend for anyone who now has a constant connection to the Web via a cable modem or a DSL line." John C. Dvorak, PC Magazine Online
- PagePath MyOrderDesk and LAUNCH! file transfer.
- PKZip Windows compression software.
- Symantec antivirus and utility software: Norton Utilities.
- WinZip Windows compression software.
- wsFTP FTP client software
Variable Data
- AutoPrice
AutoPrice is an XTension to QuarkXPress which provides sophisticated linking of
QuarkXPress documents to any external database of information. As the name
implies, AutoPrice is great for performing pricing updates on catalogs, retail
fliers, and similar publications, but is also perfect for updating phone lists,
time tables, or any other type of information that can be referenced by a key
value such as product number (SKU). Mac and Windows.
- datApex Data Assistant is an Xtension that adds data/mail-merge capabilities to QuarkXPress.
Everything you need to access any comma delimited data file for mail merge, business cards, etc.
- Data Link XT
Define variable fields in QuarkXPress and create a link between the QuarkXPress
document and a standard database.
- DataMerge
The DataMerge XTension to QuarkXPress provides sophisticated mail-merge,
variable-information printing, and document-assembly features. Variable
information means that each copy of a printed document can be personalized,
changing items such as name, address, and even graphics. The entire process is
database driven, completely flexible, and very easy to use. Mac and Windows.
- ex DBLink
This Quark XTension loads files from an external database or a structured ASCII
document. Place holders are defined in the layout which represent a database
entry. The place holders can be inserted anywhere in the document and move with
the text. They are saved with the document -- to update price lists fast and
efficiently. Through the update function, the latest database entries are
imported without changing the layout. The ex DBLink is ideal for price lists,
catalogs, and much more, because one article can be allocated different prices
(e.g., price discounts). Mac
- Meadows Information Systems DesignMerge is a mail-merge, variable information printing, and document assembly
XTension for creating personalized publications such as invitations, business cards, certificates, custom catalogs, etc.
- MergeMaster GalleyMaster is an Adobe PageMaker plug-in that lets you perform mail merge
and other variable data printing functions with PageMaker. You can also merge graphics into your PageMaker document with MergeMaster.
- MVS FlowTools
MVS FlowTools allows you to connect to a data server. The page-layout station
becomes the client of the database server. With
MVS FlowTools, the page-layout station calls, gives, or receives elements to
make pages. Text, logos, and images, update within the file dynamically. Mac and Windows.
- PrintShop Mail variable data production tool.
Design your own variable information print job, using your own documents and database applications. Supports Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Illustrator, MS Word, Quark XPress.
- Sal's AppleScript How to: Database
Publishing Lesson #1 How to create automated database publishing solutions yourself. This lesson is
for anyone--even those new to AppleScript. The lesson is a step-by-step procedure for performing a mail merge between a FileMaker Pro database and a
QuarkXPress document or template.
- XData
Xdata 3/4 is the very latest version of the best-selling, data-publishing
facility that brings all the typographical and pictorial power of QuarkXPress to
your data-publishing tasks: catalogs, directories, financial summaries, tables,
form letters, labels, parts lists, schedules, feature charts, and so on. Mac and Windows.
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