Xactuell for QXP 4.0r26 review
DownloadXactuell provides all the tools for creating and managing links from a QuarkXPress document to a database.
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Xactuell provides all the tools for creating and managing links from a QuarkXPress document to a database. It communicates with all common databases, e.g. FileMaker, Access, Sybase and Oracle, as well as Excel and simple text files. In the QuarkXPress documents, the passages are marked with an either visible or invisible marking to link any number of passages to the database using the field name and the reference (e.g. product number).
A link to the database can be made from text passages in the body of the text (text link), from text frames (text frame link) and graphic frames (graphic frame link). Once the links have been set from the document to the database, the prices, texts or pictures in the document which are linked to the database can now be updated at any time. During the update, the database is queried via the links in the document and the latest information saved in the database (prices, texts or pictures) is inserted in the corresponding points of the document.
The update can cover the whole document (all links are updated). But the update can also refer just to certain queries (e.g. price but not corresponding descriptive text) or just to certain page areas in the document. If necessary, the process also works in return: the contents of the QuarkXPress document can be written back onto the database.
What's New:
Free trial for testing all functions of Xactuell. Select the different stages of expansion!
New serial letter function
Support of tables and layers
New samples and Quick Start Tutorial
FileMaker 7 Connectivity on Mac OS X!
Database connection to FileMaker, MySQL and Oracle for free!
iODBC is supported.
Requirements:
QuarkXPress 6.x.
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