ContactPage

You can now catalog a folder containing images, create clip art manuals in seconds, or publish a product sampler online, all with QuarkXPress documents that are fully manageable and editable.

ContactPage has a comprehensive set of customizable features that lets you choose page size and margins, grid layout, picture and text box dimensions, as well as extensive caption information. What’s more, you can import pictures into an existing document, auto-save at regular intervals, and even resume cataloguing after a break.

Importing Pictures
To indicate where the images get imported from, you specify a source folder. There’s the option of including images located inside subfolders as well – that way, you can catalog an entire hard-drive or CD regardless of how may folders they contain.

Customizable Captions
ContactPage captions can be made to describe their corresponding images in minute detail. Choose from picture number, name, full path, image size, format, color model, image resolution, creator, date modified, dimensions and picture scale. You can also add any prefix/suffix custom text to be placed before/after the picture file information.

Captions can be positioned above or below pictures and at any specified distance. ContactPage can also create a style sheet for the captions so you can make global changes quickly and move on.

Resume Options
To facilitate the production of catalogs with a large number of images, ContactPage comes with a unique “resume” feature that lets you begin or continue cataloguing after interruption on any given page, picture, row or column you choose.

For example, you can instruct ContactPage to leave one blank page, start with the 25th picture in the folder, and leave one blank row and two blank columns on the first contact page.

Rows, columns and margins define the grid that ContactPage creates for you. And its interactive preview takes away guesswork by showing you exactly how the contact page will look.

You can customize the picture box width/height and shape, as well as specify how the picture should fit the box. You can choose to fit the picture to box, the box to picture, or specify any fixed scale. Options for centering and changing the layering order are also available