QuarkXPress Inspired by the designer’s passion for perfection, QuarkXPress 8 complements the way creatives work. Move freely through QuarkXPress 8 using its intuitive interface, be adventurous by sharing your print content across media with built-in Web and Flash authoring tools, and maintain control to achieve stunning text with designer-driven typography.

QuarkXPress-designed Web pages conform to open standards and can be opened and edited in standards-based HTML development tools such as Dreamweaver. The Web Documents feature enables the incorporation of Web-specific features such as dropdown lists, rollovers, hyperlinks, image maps and meta tags into Web page designs.

QuarkXPress Passport is a complete, fully functioning version of QuarkXPress that includes additional features for multi-language publishing.

·         Rotate and scale pictures directly with the new Picture Content tool, and preview cropping results as you work

·         Grab box corners and rotate without switching to a different tool

·         Draw with ease using new Bézier pen tools that follow graphics standards used by other professional creative applications

·         Explore new text-to-box support for multiple lines, entire stories, and even multiple boxes, up to an entire spread

·         When converting text to boxes, maintain the appearance of the text, including color, opacity, and most other text transformations

·         Make the most of dedicated tools for layout and illustration tasks

·         Drag and drop from your desktop or other applications that support drag and drop, such as Adobe Bridge

·         Drop a text file in the midst of existing text flow

·         Drag and drop images from your layout to the editing application of your choice

·         Work with or without pre-defined boxes

·         Import any kind of content into any kind of box — no need to switch box content type

·         Use any box tool to draw a box without worrying about its content (an easy keyboard shortcut enables this for template creation)

·         Select or switch tools using a single-letter command, or use traditional QuarkXPress keyboard shortcuts

·         Double-click a box with the Item tool, and QuarkXPress automatically switches to the proper tool for the box type

·         Grab a box corner to rotate without switching to another tool

·         Scale from the center or duplicate with Option/Alt+drag

·         Constrain an item’s proportions while resizing by pressing the Shift key

·         Transform multiple boxes in one action without grouping Use built-in Flash (SWF) creation, conversion, and export — no additional purchase required

·         Leverage your existing print design skills through a common, redefined interface and tool set

·         Output Flash files that support high-end typography features

·         Create SWF files in more than 30 languages, including East Asian languages

·         Make the most of rich design features including transparency, image manipulation effects, and robust illustration tools

·         Place Interactive layouts into Web layouts with live updates, and share them among multiple designers using Composition Zones®

·         Design once and use the content in multiple places with Shared Content

·         Use Shared Content in a single layout and across multiple layouts, even in different media types

·         Take an easy path to producing powerful, interactive communications with our page-based — not time-based — model

·         Apply more than one hundred predefined actions, easily customizing anything you can place on a page

·         Integrate video and audio into your designs

·         Create animation and buttons with ease

·         Build interactivity through simple pop-up menus and fields

·         Start producing interactive content quickly and easily, then develop more advanced projects with scripting and expressions

·         Use Hanging Punctuation and punctuation margin alignment presets to achieve smooth-looking margins with little effort

·         Customize settings to fit the exact needs of a specific design, font, or even character

·         Define hanging character settings down to the paragraph level

·         Integrate hanging character effects in style sheets

·         Create custom hanging character classes, including settings for left side, right side, and when used as drop caps

·         Apply a unique grid to each master page or even to each box

·         Build a grid based on existing text styling automatically

·         Apply Grid Styles to achieve quick and easy consistency

·         Link to page or box grid on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis

·         Create a master page grid automatically based on your intended line count

·         Link a Grid Style to a style sheet for automatic grid updates

·         Define baselines, centerlines, toplines, and bottomlines either manually or by reading settings from fonts

·         Specify different view settings for page and box grids

·         Drag boxes by their grids to snap two baselines into alignment

·         Lock Margins

·         Find glyphs by character or by Unicode number in the Glyphs palette

·         Pick the perfect font from WYSIWYG Font menus

·         Choose from more than 20 new OpenType features for East Asian scripts

Quark Higher Education Licensing Program:

HE/FE institutions must purchase a minimum of 2 licenses to qualify

Includes QuarkXPress 8 & QLA 4.5

Licenses are fully concurrent (managed by QLA)

Curriculum support included

Media Kit required

Classroom License Program (for schools):

School must purchase a minimum of 10 licenses to qualify

Licenses are fully concurrent – managed by QLA run-count

Curriculum support included

School Site License Program:

A site license (perpetual) for the school site (including institution machines, school owned laptops & home usage for staff)

Includes QuarkXPress 8 & QLA 4.5

Run-count is set as equal to the total number of machines in school

Curriculum support included

Media Kit required