QuarkXPress 7: Amazing creativity combined with rock-solid productivity
QuarkXPress® is powerful design and page layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine superior typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output for print and Web delivery. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies and design firms, marketers, printers, corporate publishers, catalog houses, and book publishers.
A new way to work
Industry experts are calling QuarkXPress 7 one of Quark's most significant upgrades ever. With more than 160 new features and enhancements, QuarkXPress 7 cements Quark's tradition of innovation by enabling a new way of working that focuses on the layout, design, and production environments as a whole rather than as separate processes.
QuarkXPress® 7 software surpasses its competition by providing tools for the entire print and Web page layout and production environment. QuarkXPress 7 combines design freedom with production reliability and acts as the focal point for multiple collaborators.
New features take QuarkXPress 7 beyond competitors
Design in context
QuarkXPress 7 provides a flexible design experience with more reliable output than standalone image-editing tools. Because QuarkXPress 7 supports native Adobe® Photoshop® files and has a dedicated image engine, you can edit images in their final context. Or work with QuarkVista™ to experiment non-destructively — without altering original files — and transform, manipulate, and crop images globally.
Precise transparency
The unique QuarkXPress 7 transparency model lets you set transparency at the color level — for any frame, background, and even single character with total independence. By avoiding the "item-based" approach of most publishing tools, QuarkXPress 7 dispenses with time-consuming workarounds required by competing tools to produce ordinary transparency effects.
Simply faster
The QuarkXPress 7 user interface is designed for maximum design and layout efficiency. By minimizing the dependence on multiple palettes with features hidden in palette menus and by using a versatile and adaptable set of tools, users can work faster.
PDF/X that works for designers
To guide designers, rules can be built to ensure problem-free PDF/X production — right from the beginning of the design process. You can adhere to compliance rules because QuarkXPress 7 supports PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 with full reporting based on industry-standard certification libraries.
Unique peer-to-peer collaboration
QuarkXPress 7 is unique in offering peer-to-peer collaboration, both by allowing many users to work on pieces of a single layout simultaneously and by providing designers with a framework to automatically synchronize text, color, design, and output.
Built-in, dynamic support for JDF
Job Jackets™ technology in QuarkXPress 7 supports a JDF workflow that is not dependent on other software. (JDF stands for Job Definition Format, an XML-based standard for the publishing industry that improves communication and workflow among vendors.) This technology goes beyond merely attaching a generic JDF ticket to a finished PDF. With QuarkXPress 7, you can actually create jobs from JDF-based Job Tickets, which ensure that your files are ready for print before the design process actually begins.
Multi-channel, rich content publishing
Unlike other comparable software, QuarkXPress 7 features a built-in, multi-channel solution for rich media output. QuarkXPress 7 can create content for print, variable data print, HTML, and XML from the same file without the need for conversion or repurposing.
