QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress: Combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output.

Combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output.


QuarkXPress is a powerful layout application that has an intuitive, versatile interface which helps you combine writing, editing and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output.


QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalog houses, book publishers and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing


New Picture and Pen Tools


Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress.

Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool — no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image!


Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress with the redefined Bézier Pen tool — just like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications. Most importantly, you can focus on the task at hand because we’ve separated illustration tools from the tools you use for basic page-layout tasks.


Design and Output Flash (SWF) Directly from QuarkXPress


Page-layout professionals can create rich Flash projects — without compromising design — using the built-in Flash authouring capabilities included in every edition of QuarkXPress.


Working in the same, familiar print environment of QuarkXPress, you can take existing print jobs to Flash, or create new Flash projects, in minutes — no additional purchase or coding required! Interactive design in QuarkXPress includes support for all of the new typographic features, the improved illustration (pen) tool set, full integration with Item Styles and other features, and support for more than 30 languages, including East Asian scripts. No other page-layout application gives you such advanced design capabilities that you can apply directly and easily to Flash design!


Create Stunning Text and Achieve the Effects you Want with Hanging Characters


QuarkXPress offers easy-to-use, precise, and fully customizable control for hanging characters. You can control the look of your text margin alignment by quickly applying preloaded settings for Hanging Punctuation and Punctuation Margin Alignment. And only QuarkXPress offers the ability to apply your settings at the paragraph level, so settings don’t have to apply to an entire story. You can even include the hanging characters setting as part of a style sheet.


But our settings are just the beginning. You can build your own settings to precisely define the hang of any character you choose, including drop caps, to create the design effects that work for you.


Integration


Working together with other design applications has never been easier! QuarkXPress adds native Illustrator file import, standardized tools, and Adobe Bridge integration to existing designer-friendly Photoshop integration.


You can import or drag and drop an Illustrator file directly to your page. Better still, use our redefined illustration tool set to draw like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications, making illustration changes where it matters most — in the context of your layout.


Importing Photoshop files is just the beginning — QuarkXPress is also the only page-layout application that gives designers control of creative features such as layer transparency, blend modes, and spot colour channels right on the page.


Design Using Dictionaries and Hyphenation in More Than 30 Languages


Whether you’re designing multi-lingual documents or repurposing a document from another part of the world, QuarkXPress offers global publishing capabilities and support for more than 30 languages in every edition.


Virtually anywhere in the world your workflow extends, the new global file format, hyphenation, and spelling capabilities of QuarkXPress mean that you can be sure your team works together seamlessly. What’s more, you can even open, edit, style, and output East Asian documents without worries. QuarkXPress also includes multiple-language user interfaces that can be switched at will, letting your team members work in the language they choose.


QuarkXPress features:


- Modern, intuitive interface

- Built-in Web and Flash authoring tools

- Designer-driven typography with hanging characters and advanced baseline grids

- Native Illustrator file import and new illustration tools

- Common Illustrator and Photoshop keyboard controls

- Easy page layout with drag and drop functionality

- Items Styles and Item Find/Change

- Output styles suited for PDF workflows, including PDF/X and PDF/X PLUS

- International publishing features


Requirements:


- 1GB RAM (256MB minimum on Windows XP, 512MB minimum on Windows Vista)

- 500MB hard disk space

- An Internet connection for activation

- DVD-ROM drive


Limitations:


- 60 days trial