By Dale Farris, Reviews Coordinator
Golden Triangle PC Club
May 2007

General Overview

QuarkXPress is the industry standard in desktop publishing. On the market since 1987, QuarkXPress is the pre-eminent professional desktop publishing program. Ever since its initial release, QuarkXPress has been the desktop publishing program other software vendors have tried to emulate.

More people use QuarkXPress for creative design and page layout than any other software in the world. Millions of users are now discovering the power of the new QuarkXPress 7, the most important QuarkXPress upgrade ever.

All the bells and whistles QuarkXPress 7 boasts 160 new, innovative features.

Take control of transparency with total independence. Create visually stunning graphics from within QuarkXPress 7 — no need to switch to another application. Use the revolutionary Composition Zones functionality to collaborate with multiple users anywhere in the world on the same layout at the same time. Optimize your production workflows with new Job Jackets technology. Work faster with a streamlined user interface and dynamic design tools.

Top 10 Features

Smart transparency

Revolutionary Composition Zones

Quark Job Jackets

In-the-layout image editing

Superior palette controls

Versatile typography with OpenType and Unicode

Shared content

Advanced color management

Easy PDF/X production

Multi-channel rich-content publishing

Super Features

Basic Functionality and Navigation

Unify major functionality in a single location with tabbed Measurements palette
Apply colors with a single action from Measurements palette
Use keyboard shortcuts to tab through Measurements palette
Use improved space/align controls on the Measurements palette
Create tabs quickly and accurately with new Measurements palette controls and guides
Save screen real estate by using palette groups and sets
Organize your workspace with palette smart snapping
Switch image alpha channels on the fly from Measurements palette
Open and edit QuarkXPress Passport files with single-language versions of QuarkXPress
Apply language settings at the character level
Retain picture attributes when replacing pictures
Create smaller files with new optimized file format Identify layer items with layer colors
Set EPS preview preference
Take advantage of improved locking, including position locking and content locking
Take advantage of a 30-day evaluation period to experiment with fully functioning software
Display images at the file's full resolution to scale or magnify images with minimal pixelation and to position page elements more precisely
Change document display from 10% to 800% (maximum percentage for Windows version may vary depending on monitor resolution)
Size and position items manually or by using precise coordinates
Nudge items 1 point or .1 point using arrow keys
Run text around a picture's subject matter including inside the "holes" of a picture's subject matter
Add QuarkXTensions and XTensions modules - software created by Quark and third-party developers that expand the user interface and capabilities of QuarkXPress
Manage which QuarkXTensions or XTensions sets will be active when you launch using XTensions Manager
Use the Scripts menu to choose from a wide variety of default AppleScript scripts, or add your own scripts to customize and automate QuarkXPress (Mac OS only)
Create documents up to 2,000 pages long, or 2 gigabytes in size
Use multiple undo/redo capability for actions, including Import Text, Import Picture, Crop to Box, linking and unlinking text boxes, and many functions in the Layers palette
Take advantage of some new and reorganized menus and commands
Access Find/Change controls from a movable palette for convenient text editing during search and replace
Activate a context menu on pages or items to access context-sensitive options
Display visual indicators to identify Web items and their attributes
View actual page numbers or "absolute" page numbers in a sectioned document in the Page Layout palette
View multiple spreads simultaneously
Take advantage of live scrolling and dragging
Work with full support for Danish, Dutch, International English, U.S. English, French, German, German (Reformed), Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss-German when you purchase QuarkXPress Passport
Use spell check in various languages with QuarkXPress Passport
Use hyphenation dictionaries for various languages when publishing in multiple languages with QuarkXPress Passport
Run under the operating system for any one of the supported languages
Save documents in single-language or multiple-language format with QuarkXPress Passport
Exchange single-language documents with single-language versions of QuarkXPress
Create book files consisting of multiple QuarkXPress files for efficient network-based construction of long documents
Synchronize style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, and line/frame styles among documents that are part of a book
Generate a table of contents or index across an entire book

Layout, Design, and Graphics Management

Apply individual opacity settings at the color level to text, box backgrounds, frames, lines, blend colors, etc.
Support alpha channels in imported images
Control layer opacity and blending mode of imported PSD files
Automatically flatten with resolution control
Export transparent PNG images from Web layouts
Apply soft drop shadows to page items
Skew, offset, and scale drop shadows
Synchronize drop shadow angles throughout the layout
Create text runaround from drop shadows
Use independent or inherited item opacity and shadow opacity
Knock out drop shadow with item
Multiply drop shadow to combine drop shadows with objects below the shadow
Synchronize boxes, pictures, text, and lines
Synchronize attributes (color, transformations, picture effects, styles, etc.)
Work in single-layout mode to simplify file naming
Append layouts within projects for easy content sharing
Export layouts into individual files or save them as an earlier version
Use split window view
Display multiple windows for the same layout
Use native transparency and drop shadows in Web layouts
Import Shockwave Flash (SWF) files for interactivity in Web pages
Export vector objects and text as SWF from Web layouts
Improve anti-aliasing on graphic export for Web layouts
Benefit from superior smoothing with the new graphics engine
Export anti-aliased graphics from Web layout
Render shapes and rotate text more smoothly with the new graphics engine
Apply Blur and Diffuse to alpha mask Integrate image formatting with shared content feature
Edit contrast curves numerically Integrate alpha mask with existing layer opacity and blending mode features
Control content flow by linking text cells within a table or linking tables to each other
Create synchronized headers and footers for tables
Split tables within a page or across pages
Rotate tables
Automatically resize cells in tables
Automatically select all even rows, even columns, odd rows, or odd columns in tables for quick formatting
Group tables to other items
Use independent transparency settings for table, cells, borders, and content
Script table rows, columns, and gridlines with AppleScript
Create single-sided or facing-page print documents
Share specifications such as style sheets, colors, H&Js, and lists among layout spaces (a collection of layouts that reside in the same project)
Use layout-wide layers (similar to clear plastic overlays) to organize items
Convert selected text to a table or convert a table to text while maintaining anchored pictures
Combine and split table cells to create a complex table layout
Merge multiple items to form one composite box
Draw five standard picture box and text box shapes
Convert text into Bézier-outline box and fill with a picture or text
Create scalable, custom dash or stripe styles for use with lines and frames or choose from 11 default dash and stripe styles
Automatically create and place rules above and below paragraphs
Anchor picture boxes, text boxes, lines, and rules to flow with text including non-rectangular or Bézier-shaped items or groups of items
Anchor tables in text boxes or other tables
Convert a table to a group of boxes that can be moved, rotated, reshaped, and more
Define tabbing order between cells
Resize table columns and rows numerically or by dragging
Maintain table size while resizing table elements
Create documents for the Web or for printed output
Use consolidated preferences to quickly set document and application preferences within the same dialog box
Export tables as HTML tables from Web documents
Save files as write-protected templates
Automatically save and make backups of documents
Automatically save library changes
Import style sheets, colors, line and frame styles, H&Js, and lists from other documents
Edit items on master pages for global changes
Edit master items locally in the document for special-case pages
Create multiple-page spreads (gatefolds) in print documents
Select from three automatic page insertion options, or insert pages manually Insert, delete, and move multiple pages
Drag pages within and between documents
Apply the color of "none" to cells and gridlines for placing a table over graphic elements
Draw Bézier picture boxes, text boxes, lines, and text paths using point-by-point tools or freehand tools
Convert boxes to lines and vice versa
Change traditionally shaped items into Bézier items and vice versa
Convert text boxes to picture boxes and vice versa
Change Bézier lines to text paths and vice versa
Rearrange the stacking order of layers
Send items to the front or back of their layer or one level forward or backward within the layer
Snap items to guides, and define your own "snap to" distance
Scale box contents (text or picture) while resizing the box
Resize groups of items, with the option to scale all picture contents, text contents, frame widths, and line weights
Number and renumber pages automatically
Divide a single document into independently numbered sections
Specify "Continued on" and "Continued from" page numbers that update automatically
Link text boxes to create a story
Use automatic text boxes with auto page insertion to avoid manual creation of multi-page text chains for books and other long documents
Rotate lines or boxes with their content in .001 degree increments
Skew pictures, text, boxes, and lines
Specify line widths from hairline to 864 points in .001-point increments
Apply color and shade to box or table cell backgrounds, lines, gridlines, frames, and gaps in non-solid lines and frames
Paste low-resolution pictures into boxes to embed them in the document, or import high- and low-resolution pictures to link the original picture files to the document
List all pictures in a document, and display each picture file's full path, file size, modification date, dimensions, and color depth Import pictures in most
Mac OS and Windows formats
Automatically update modified pictures
Update all modified images in a document using a modifier key
Create editable clipping paths based on white areas, an alpha channel, or an embedded path Invert any clipping path
Remove a picture from its bounding box
Apply color and shade to 1-bit and grayscale pictures
Convert color pictures to grayscale or grayscale pictures to line art during import
Scale, crop, rotate, and skew pictures
Scale a picture to fit its box or resize a box to fit a picture
Position pictures manually or numerically
Control contrast of a grayscale bitmap picture or for each channel of a color bitmap picture
Control OPI swapping on a picture-by-picture basis
Group items so they can be selected, moved, rotated, resized, or modified as a single item
Automatically control alignment and space between multiple items
Lock or unlock single or grouped items on a page
Lock or unlock all items on a given layer
Automatically create and position multiple duplicates of items

Printing and Production

Use Composition Zones technology to share layouts among multiple projects and workstations with live updates
Use Composition Zones technology to design simultaneously in multiple media types or layout sizes
Use Composition Zones technology to divide a page for collaborative design
Synchronize design settings (among multiple users)
Synchronize color management settings (among multiple users)
Initiate jobs from tickets with built-in production settings
Customize preflighting and automatically evaluate layout at output, open, save
Access Job Jackets Manager for advanced users such as printers, who can provide Job Jackets to clients
Use JDF-compatible settings
Send real-time updates on all Job Jacket settings to layouts
Use always-on, always profile-based color management
Automatically monitor profile detection
Bundle key settings of source and output setups for color management
Use casual and advanced modes for color management
Easily soft proof files on-screen
Simulate various output devices on-screen, such as grayscale
Embed CMM preferences in layouts
Use LogoSync for black point compensation
Color manage whole workgroups with live updates via Quark Job Jackets files
Use presets for major color management standards
Color manage non-destructive image color correction
Color manage vector EPS and PDF files
Emulate color transformations of previous versions of QuarkXPress via ICC profiles
Access numerous additional advanced settings for color management
Create, share, and use PDF Output styles
Use preset standard PDF styles for typical workflows
Gain support for PDF/X 1-a and PDF/X 3 Export PDF with JDF
Evaluate PDF/X criteria during layout
Verify based on standard Callas libraries
Create smaller PDF file size through optimization and preset use
Embed fonts in EPS files
Export multiple pages as separate EPS, PDF, or DCS files
Take advantage of Print Layout dialog box enhancements
Use always-on preview in the Print dialog box Improved output styles for PDF and EPS
Output JDF Support in-RIP workflows
Use PostScript 3 smooth shading
Get output enhancements for EPS and PPML output
Specify print layout sizes ranging from 1" x 1" to 48" x 48"
Choose from eight measurement systems for print layouts, including agates for classified ads
Export print layout pages in PDF format
Save pages as EPS picture files
Create "multi-ink" colors that consist of user-specified percentages of any number of inks
Choose rendering intents to indicate to the Color Management Module what color properties it should preserve when it performs color translations for RGB, CMYK, and Hexachrome colors
Output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without third-party software
Use As Is Color Space to allow print devices to handle color conversion (rather than QuarkXPress) for optimum color
Output blends, multi-inks, colorized TIFFs, and other items as composite color while retaining spot color information suitable for in-RIP separations
Take advantage of a Layers tab in the Print dialog box for outputting specific layers
View a display of inks used in a layer
Override Suppress Output settings for individual items on a layer without modifying them in the layout
Create reusable print styles for common print settings
Trap colors automatically or on an object-by-object basis (choke, spread, knockout, or overprint)
Specify the shade at or above which an object color will overprint its background color
Print individual plates for spot and process colors
Control screen frequency, angle, and dot function separately for each plate
Specify line frequency, screen angle, and dot function for grayscale pictures
Print spot and process color separations of EPS graphics
Use high-fidelity color compatibility to reduce the need for spot colors
Separate RGB pictures into high-fidelity color space for minimal loss in gamut
Separate RGB pictures into process color space
Create two-color blends (gradients), including blending to None for a transparent effect, for box backgrounds in six patterns
Create process and spot colors using any of these color models: HSB, RGB, CMYK, LAB, PANTONE, PANTONE Hexachrome, FOCOLTONE, TRUMATCH, and Japanese color systems TOYO and DIC
Create default and project-specific colors
Predict color using ICC-based color management from Apple ColorSync (Mac OS only) or Kodak (Windows or Mac OS)
Specify picture sources, device profiles, and color management preferences using the full suite of controls in QuarkCMS QuarkXTensions software
Automatically learn which item is causing a printing problem using the Quark PostScript error handler
Preview how your page will be positioned on the selected output medium
Print a non-continuous range of pages
Print actual size, percentage of actual size, and thumbnails
Print oversized documents in automatically or manually tiled pieces
Print spreads as continuous output
Print registration marks centered, off center, or at user-defined offsets
Create bleeds by extending items beyond page boundaries, and select from three options to specify bleed distance from page edges
Suppress printout of any item
Control output of OPI comments for TIFF and EPS picture formats individually
Select normal or low-resolution printing modes
Suppress or enable picture printout, either individually or on a layout-wide basis
Print TIFFs at printer resolution to non-PostScript printers
Print master pages
After being automatically notified that pictures are missing, re-import those picture files at the start of a print job
Send print information in binary, ASCII, or Clean 8-bit format
Collect any print layout and its high-resolution picture files, fonts, and color profiles in a folder for delivery to a service bureau
Automatically generate an electronic report containing all the information a service bureau needs to print your document, including information about required XTensions software

Text Processing

Use OpenType font features including:

Standard and discretionary ligatures
Cross-platform support for ligatures
Ligatures on-the-fly
Ordinals
Titling alternates
All small caps
Fractions
Swashes
Contextual alternates
Proportional Figures
Tabular Figures
Oldstyle Figures
Lining Figures
Superscript and subscript
Numerator and denominator
Case-sensitive forms and capital spacing
Historical forms
Kern
Ornaments
Scientific inferiors
Cross-stream ("vertical") kerning pairs
OpenType styling support in Find/Change
OpenType styling support in XPress Tags
OpenType Kerning Preference
Glyphs palette
Insert Invisibles from Glyphs palette or Utilities menu
New glyphs for invisible characters
Font fallback to find correct font for unsupported characters

Find related alternate glyphs through the alternate glyph window in the Glyphs palette
Store and access favorite glyphs
Insert special characters from a menu
Access style sheets through any character attribute location, including Measurements palette
Revert paragraph attributes without removing local character formatting
Change Case
New default values for standard H&Js
Five new default H&Js including "No Hyphenation"
Paragraph rules can be set at "Column" length
Synchronize text to edit once and see the change reflected simultaneously in corresponding text across all layout spaces
Export text in a variety of text formats
Import text from XPress Tags and ASCII formats and from RTF on Windows
Import text with style sheets from Microsoft Word and WordPerfect documents
Tag words for a four-level nested index or a two-level run-in index with cross-references
Automatically generate formatted index from tagged words according to punctuation preferences
Create formatted tables of contents and other paragraph or character style sheet-based lists automatically
Display the QuarkXPress interface in any one of the supported languages for QuarkXPress Passport
Automatically hyphenate text in each language used in a QuarkXPress Passport layout
Perform language-specific spell checking for each language used in a QuarkXPress Passport layout
Drag and drop text within a layout or, on Windows, drag and drop text files directly from any Windows file list into a layout
Generate word counts for stories and layout
Automatically type "fi" and "fl" pairs as ligatures, while maintaining the ability to edit text, Find/Change text, hyphenate, and check spelling as usual
Automatically convert straight quotes and inch marks into typographer's quotes while entering or importing text
Create automatic drop caps up to 16 lines in height
Create hanging indents using the "Indent Here" character
Break paragraphs and columns using special characters such as "New line," "Next column," and "Next box"
Choose among a wide variety of breaking and non-breaking dashes, hyphens, and spaces
Find/change text and specific attributes — including fonts, style sheets, and text color — in a single story or a whole layout
Use built-in spelling dictionary along with user-defined dictionaries to check spelling
Check the spelling of a single word, a story, a selection of text, or an entire layout Use the Automatic Word Lookup feature to check spelling
Create interaction in Web pages and PDF files using hyperlinks and anchors
Apply color and shade to text
Create and apply paragraph style sheets
Create and apply character style sheets for faster local text formatting
Embed character style sheets in paragraph style sheets for consistent formatting
Horizontally or vertically scale text from 25% to 400% of normal width or height
Scale text proportionally while resizing a text box with the mouse
Kern and track text in .001 increments
Edit tracking and kerning tables individually for each font without altering font files
Prevent a subhead from separating from the lines of a paragraph with the "Keep with Next" feature
Control widow and orphan lines by specifying the minimum number of lines that can break from a paragraph across a column
Specify left, centered, right, justified, and forced paragraph alignment Vertically align text (top, centered, bottom, or justified) within a box
Control the text inset for each edge of a text box
Control spacing before and after paragraphs
Automatically align text baselines across columns
Specify absolute leading in .001-point increments, or specify leading based on font size
Specify left indent, right indent, and first line indent
Apply custom hyphenation settings to individual paragraphs
Insert discretionary hyphens to control hyphenation on a case-by-case basis
Create multiple hyphenation and justification (H&J) specifications
Save hyphenation exceptions with a layout
Specify the maximum number of consecutive hyphens allowed
Control hyphenation of capitalized words
Specify minimum word size to hyphenate and the minimum number of characters before and after a hyphen
Specify optimum, minimum, and maximum word and character spacing for justified text
Select from six tab alignment options
Place tabs numerically or manually
Specify tab fill characters (such as dot leaders), including two-character fills Place a right tab stop flush with right indent regardless of established tab stops
Base automatic runaround path on a picture's white areas, its box, an alpha channel, an embedded path, or a clipping path
Automatically run text around non-rectangular boxes to match their shape
Edit text runaround paths using Bézier tools

Web Page Design

Export Web layouts in HTML format
Export Web layout pictures in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format
Create two-position rollovers from images or text boxes
Create and apply secondary menus that display when the cursor is held over a primary menu
Easily create page-to-page hyperlinks
Create Web forms to collect and track information using as many as eight types of form controls
Create rectangular, oval, and Bézier image maps
Specify font families for cascading style sheets
Quickly create form boxes by changing the content of an existing box to Form, place a form on a layer, or create form boxes in table cells
Engage HTML Preview and Export from the context menu
Use the Append feature to add hyperlinks associated with URLs to a layout Use the Hyperlinks palette to specify how hyperlinks and anchors are displayed
Create rollovers for a Web page
View the active Web layout in different Web browsers — before you actually export it as HTML

PPML, XML, and Media Independent Publishing

Export PPML for custom printing
Use PPML consumers/output style
Import XML for variable data
Extract QuarkXPress content and store it in XML format
Import/export XML without the need for a DTD
Take advantage of a convenient method for identifying tagged content
Use improved error handling
Take advantage of a new industry-standard parser
Combine a series of boxes into a named sequence
Place XML content automatically in a QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport layout for print, HTML, or PDF output

Target Customers

After you have installed QuarkXPress 7, you will want to immediately go to www.quark.com and download the latest 7.2 upgrade to the program. The update provides performance improvements and addresses customer input. This important update also aligns support for recent announcements, including Windows Vista and Quark XPert Tools Pro (the most popular suite of QuarkXPress XTensions), and new language support with user interfaces in five additional languages -- Czech, Greek, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Turkish. The update also includes improvements in Job Jackets, Flattening, and within XPress' Color Management Module.

User interface modifications in Job Jackets enable users to create new rules directly from a layout evaluation dialogue box, create and edit output specifications directly from the Output job dialogue box, and create new layout specifications directly from the layout menu.

Users can now specify resolutions for different types of objects, specifically vector graphics, drop shadows, and blends, while color management gets a boost in the form of support for Kodak's new module which adds Black Point Compensation.

The above listed impressive features in QuarkXPress 7 should convey the power of this high end program that is so commonly found in so many businesses. With three million registered users worldwide, Quark is more focused on keeping existing customers happy than on converting Adobe InDesign users to QuarkXPress. While many people have switched to InDesign, many more have stayed with QuarkXPress, just biding their time.

The new QuarkXPress 7 is what these InDesign customers have been waiting for. QuarkXPress 7 fulfills two fundamental objectives: Its design-related features are improved enough to keep QuarkXPress interesting and vital, and it solves deep-seated workflow problems. This latest version 7 of QuarkXPress more firmly turns the desktop, page-layout market on its head.

There are scores of significant new features in QuarkXPress 7. Some make XPress more efficient to use, such as moving 95% of the controls once available only in modal dialog boxes to the Measurements palette for instant visual feedback. Other new features are more design features, such as implementation of transparency and drop shadows that are markedly superior to InDesign. Coupled with a dramatically improved on-screen display of text and graphics, the designer's world takes a great leap forward.

The more profound changes involve collaboration and workflow. For the first time in the page-layout world, the artificial barrier of "one user per document" is gone, without the need for a server. Instead, anyone with a copy of QuarkXPress can work on a document at the same time as other users, and changes can appear in real time.

Another big change, which is actually required for the most successful collaboration, is a technology that ensures that everyone working on a project uses the same color management settings, output goals, and mechanical specifications. With the new Quark Job Jackets technology, Quark has tapped into the JDF (Job Description Format) standard and brought it upstream to the original content creator. The designer doesn't need to know anything about how Job Jackets work.

Quark has also lowered the price of XPress 7 by $200 to $749. Upgrades from any version of XPress are $249. Quark has also lowered the price of QuarkXPress Passport, the multi-language version of QuarkXPress, by $400 to $1,499.

As with previous versions of XPress, version 7 lets you save your project down one level, to version 6. Of course, if you used any features new to version 7, they'll be ignored when saved down to version 6. The new version 7 is such a tremendous upgrade, it's unlikely that anyone would create a new project without using the new features. On the other hand, it's handy for editing projects that were created in version 6 without having to launch the older application.

The XPress box contains a 420-page printed guide that explains how to use all the new features, along with a 41-page quick-start guide that briefly explains what each feature is, where it is, and how to use it. The box also includes two training videos (one 40 minutes, one 80 minutes) on CD that show you how to use each new feature. Including these training materials is a welcome return-to-form for Quark, who had been roundly criticized for not providing printed manuals with past releases. To make the manuals even handier to use, the installer also places PDF versions of them inside the XPress folder. This inclusion of a paper manual also indicates the tremendous power and complexity of QuarkXPress, as the company recognizes that the page layout market still continues customers who are new to QuarkXPress. The program is so deep with tools and features, that it cries out for some sort of paper guide to operation, especially for those customers who may still not be thoroughly familiar with the program. In addition to these resources, Quark also has brief training videos on its Web site and free technical support by phone, in English.

Quark has caught up with InDesign in many areas (OpenType, colored layers), and surpassed it in others (Photoshop support, transparency, drop shadows). However, QuarkXPress 7 still lacks many of InDesign niceties (multi-line composer, print preview, a color sampler tool).

On the workflow front, Quark beats InDesign hands down. If your company relies on pumping out pages, you'll make more money because of the new automatic color management, collaboration, Job Jackets, and output capabilities. QuarkXPress 7's interface is now even more efficient to use,  a benefit that cannot be overestimated.

This upgrade is about Quark keeping its existing users happy enough to upgrade to a new version of QuarkXPress. Its new design features let QuarkXPress 7 users create pages that are difficult or impossible to produce in InDesign. XPress 7's new collaboration features have the potential to revolutionize the way workgroups lay out documents, while simultaneously reducing production time and errors. Its new output features, including Job Jackets, make it far, far easier to successfully output jobs the first time.

Recommendation

I highly recommend QuarkXPress 7 for anyone involved in desktop publishing, or page layout, such as magazine layout or newspaper layout. The dominance of QuarkXPress in these specialized markets indicates its preferred status, but customers who may not yet have experienced the power of QuarkXPress will definitely be amazed at what the program will do for them. Customers brand new to QuarkXPress 7 also may want to budget for additional training, in order to maximize the power of the program as quickly as possible. QuarkXPress also is the page layout program that would be a better choice for educational institutions that have developed classes around this technology. While students may not necessarily find QuarkXPress in all companies, when they learn the tools and features of QuarkXPress, they will also be much more likely to more quickly adapt to other established software, such as Adobe's InDesign, or other desktop publishing programs.

Those who may be complete novices to desktop publishing are encouraged to begin learning about page layout programs by starting with lower priced, home-based desktop publishing programs, such as Microsoft's Publisher, or any of the other many inexpensive page layout programs that are commonly found on the retail shelves.

Price

$749 - QuarkXPress 7 Retail
$249 - QuarkXPress 7 Upgrade

Contact the company for licensing arrangements for large-scale corporate structures.

Multiple user license pricing is also available.

System Configuration Requirements

Windows
Microsoft Windows
250MB free hard disk space
128MB RAM
CD-ROM drive for installation

Mac OS
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later
G4 or faster PowerPC-based processor or Mac Intel-based processor
350MB free hard disk space
128MB RAM
CD-ROM drive for installation

Quark is pleased to announce the introduction of platform-independent licenses that allow you to install QuarkXPress 7 on PowerPC-based Macs, Intel-based (Universal) Macs, and Windows machines. QuarkXPress 7 continues to support dual-activation of licenses to allow for installation on two workstations — regardless of platform.

About Quark, Inc.

Quark was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1981. Named after the subatomic particle proposed as the building block for all matter, the goal was to create software that would be the platform for publishing.

QuarkXPress made an immediate impact when it was released in 1987. Desktop publishing was in its infancy, and most publications were produced mechanically. QuarkXPress introduced precision typography, layout, and color control to the desktop computer, and delivered those features to designers at a fraction of the cost of proprietary typesetting systems. There are now more than three million QuarkXPress users worldwide.

In 1988, Quark began international operations with the establishment of offices across Europe and the Far East. Quark maintains service, support, and development offices in France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Customers in more than 100 countries worldwide rely on Quark products to create, design, and manage their documents - from newspapers, magazines, and books to catalogs, brochures, packaging, and online material.

Today, Quark maintains its industry leadership with a product line that ties together traditional print publishing with enterprise content management, personalization, and tools for creating collaborative, cross-media workflows.

With QuarkXPress, Quark, Inc. has helped spark the revolution in desktop publishing. With the Quark suite of enterprise publishing software — Quark Publishing System, Quark Content Manager, and Quark Dynamic Document Server — Quark is paving the way for custom publishing in a multiple-channel environment. The company's industry-leading design, publishing, personalization, and content management software let publishers efficiently create content once and deliver it anywhere, now.

Quark is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The company is privately held.

Contact

Lisa Johnson
Quark, Inc.
2001 Central Ave
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82007
800-998-1716
307-772-7426
FAX 307-772-7122
ljohnson@quark.com
www.quark.com