Poly Box XT allows the QuarkXPress user to vertically re-size each column of a multi-column text box independently. This helps newspaper, magazine and newsletter layout artists create complex designs within QuarkXPress and helps them avoid complex text runaround problems (such as a line of type between a photo and a caption. A few keystrokes is all it took to create the text box shown below. This XTension only works with QuarkXPress version 3.x for the Macintosh.

Using Poly Box XT gives the user the flexibility of having their pages look more like what they want, without the hassle of making a polygon text box. This XTension allows you to vertically re-size any column in a multi-column text box to your needs. Once you process a box, if you don't like what it looks like, hit a keyboard command and start over. With two mouse clicks you can make two columns re-size together to make more precise spaces for photos, additional stories, advertisements, etc. It's simple to use and it's inexpensive.

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