XPert Layers 2.1.3 review
DownloadXPert Layers provides an easy way to work with QuarkXPress items by letting you locate, select, and modify items by layer.
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XPert Layers provides an easy way to work with QuarkXPress items by letting you locate, select, and modify items by layer. Now Supports QuarkXPress 6's multiple undo/redo.
One of the most powerful features in the XPert Layers XTension is its ability to let you work with items in groups, called "viewgroups." Viewgroups let you work with sets of QuarkXPress items that you've selected. Once items are in a group, you can use XPert Layers to shuffle all the items in the group up or down the stacking order together. You can also select or deselect all the items in a group, delete all the items in a group, lock groups of items, and show or hide all the items in a group. Hidden items don't display on-screen or print.
The ability to hide and show viewgroups can be particularly useful. For example, you can speed the on-screen redraw of a page by hiding the slower-drawing elements. To do this, you would put draw-intensive items into the same viewgroup with other slow drawing items, then click in the XPert Layers palette to hide the group. You could also use this feature to make it easier to produce multiversion publications.
You customize how the XPert Layers palette and several of its features work using the XPert Layers Preferences dialog box.
What's New:
Added ConvertLayers functionality to the palettes flyout menu.
At times the palette would become out of sync with the state of the document. Fixed.
Requirements:
Mac OS 9.1 - 9.2x, or Mac OS X 10.3 or later
QuarkXPress 4.1 or later (including 6.x).
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