Matrix Page2PictXT 1.1.4 review

Compatible with the Retrieva asset management applications, Matrix Page2PictXT provides a preview of all the Quark pages within the document along with previews of all images used and co-ordinates of the picture boxes.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 41K Developer: Matrix Software Price: $0.00 Updated: 01 Jul 2006

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Compatible with the Retrieva asset management applications, Matrix Page2PictXT provides a preview of all the Quark pages within the document along with previews of all images used and co-ordinates of the picture boxes.

This info is stored in the resource fork of the file and can be easily accessed using applications such as ResEdit, Resourcerer or procedurally using FileMaker, 4D, Omnis, REALbasic or C.

The preferences allow the user to switch previews off, set the size of the previews or allow the previews to be their natural size, as well as settings for JPEG compression quality for page & image previews.

What's New:
Lots of improvements gleaned from various internal releases.
Fixed glitch introduced in 1.1.0 where JPEG compressing image previews could alter Quark's clipping rect.
The currently selected box is now restored after adding page previews. This could have resulted in a crash if you saved the document with page previews, then hit Select All.
Saving at zoom factor of more than 100% extended the canvas by that percentage. Very large percentages could cause page preveiw generation to fail.

Requirements:
QuarkXPress 6.