ShapeMaker

Welcome to the Design Revolution Made Possible by ShapeMaker!

ShapeMaker provides a new way to create an almost infinite number of unique and useful shapes. Perhaps best described as a shape synthesizer, ShapeMaker gives you control over the parameters that determine shapes. Shapes are indispensible in almost any design, whether it's a simple rectangle or a complicated silhouette. When Quark introduced bezier curves in version 4, they opened a whole world of new shape possibilites and ShapeMaker takes full advantage of this. You'll no longer need to switch over to Illustrator for those complex box shapes, it can all be done within QuarkXPress. In fact, ShapeMaker can make shapes that would take forever to create or, in some cases, would be impossible to create in Illustrator. You can also export the shapes to Illustrator for further editing or use.

Shapes can be combined and they can also be manipulated to further serve the designer's needs. Once a shape is created, this is often only the beginning. Because of the ingenious way Quark has implemented its bezier shapes, you can at any time switch a box into a text path or vice versa, merge and split shapes and much more. We encourage you to experiment and explore this vast universe of new designs.

Features:

• Sliders added to Wave and Polygon tabs making for super easy design and exploration
  
• Ability to alter currently selected box
  
• Ability to fill area with linked wave paths
  
• Ability to control where objects are created (was center of spread only)