QuarkXpress 9 Features
Easy to Use - QuarkXPress is a powerful and full-featured tool that makes it easy to develop your ideas into gorgeous layouts.
- Streamlined, Modern, Intuitive Interface
- Palette Sets
- Task-based Tools
- Libraries
- Multiple Views
- Learn Once for Multiple Channels
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Drag and Drop
Powerful Design Tools - QuarkXPress� provides an arsenal of design tools that let you turn even the most elaborate visions into reality.
- NEW: ShapeMaker, Cloner
- ENHANCED: Table Creation
- Transparency and Drop Shadows
- Illustration (B�zier/Pen) Tools
- Clipping and Masking of Images
- Picture Effects and Filters
- Layers & Color Blends
- Easily Create and Apply Shapes to Any Content
- Guides and Grids & Full Resolution Preview
- Space/Align and Distribution
- Super Step and Repeat
- Automatic Text Runaround & Intelligent Scaling
Precision Typography - Typography is an art form, and QuarkXPress� provides the tools you need to create powerful works of typographical art.
- NEW: Linkster, Conditional Styles, Bullets and Numbering, Story Editor
- ENHANCED: Style Sheets
- Hanging Characters
- Page Grids and Grid Styles
- East Asian Typography& Glyphs Palette
- Convert Text to Picture and Text Boxes
- Text on a Path& Professional Text Formatting
- Kerning and Tracking
- Create Custom Kerning Pairs and Tracking Curves
- Special Characters & Jabber
- Create Custom Underline Styles& Unicode and OpenType Support
- Customisable H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Specifications
- Font Fallback & Mapping
- Hyphenation Exceptions
- Text Find Change
- Hot-swappable user interface languages
- Custom Text Runaround
- Spellchecking and Hyphenation in 38 languages
Integration with Other Applications - No application is an island. That’s why QuarkXPress� was designed from the beginning to work with files in a wide variety of formats.
- Import and Manipulate Photoshop (PSD) Documents
- Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel (XLS, XLSX) ENHANCED
- Import Native Adobe� Illustrator� (AI) Files
- Import XML and Publishing Personalised Marketing Materials
- Import, Export, and Edit Text (DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, XTAGS)
- Import and Edit Almost Any Image File (EPS, GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, PostScript, TIFF)
- Enrich Web, SWF (Flash�) and Digital Publishing Projects with Sound and Video (AVI, FLV, MOV, MP3, SWF)
Collaboration - QuarkXPress� helps you to make sure that when you work with others, you’re really working together.
- Composition Zones�
- Job Jackets�
- Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel
- Shared Auxiliary Dictionaries
- Integration with QuarkCopyDesk�
Layout Automation - QuarkXPress� not only provides you with world-class layout tools — it provides you with automation tools that allow you to create top-end design quickly and efficiently.
- NEW: ImageGrid, Conditional Styles, Callouts
- Job Jackets
- Synchronise Text, Pictures, and Formatting Automatically
- Books, Lists, Style Sheets
- Item Find/Change & Item Styles
- AppleScript/part of Extending QuarkXPress page
- Master pages
- Import XML into QuarkXPress and Publish Personalised Marketing Materials
- Indexes & Automatic page numbering
Reliable Print Output - QuarkXPress� has the tools you need to make sure that your layouts look the way you design them, both on the screen and on the press, without time-consuming troubleshooting and tweaking.
- Job Jackets
- Soft Proofing
- Spot Inks (including PANTONE� Matching System)
- Bleed and Registration Marks
- Configurable PDF Job Options
- Reusable Output Styles
- ICC Color Management
- Overprint Control
Digital Publishing - QuarkXPress� provides a toolset that lets you design and publish for a variety of output formats — including the Web, smartphones, e-readers, and tablets — without having to learn a different skill set for each, learn to write code or programme, or purchase additional software applications.
- NEW: AApp studio, Design for blio eReader, e-books
All purpose
- Learn Once for Multiple Channels
- Automatic Image Format Conversion
- Create Scripted Behaviors
- Layout Spaces
- Convert Print to Digital Publishing Formats (Web, SWF/Flash, e-books, tablets)
- Synchronise Text, Pictures, and Formatting Automatically
Interactive SWF (Flash) design
- Create SWF (Flash) Animations
- Add Video, Audio, and SWF (Flash)
- Easily Create Simple and Multi-state Buttons
- Include Page and Object Transitions
- Single-click Export of HTML and SWF (Flash)
Video Conversion to FLV
Web
- Add Navigation Menus & Hyperlinks and Anchors
- Add Meta Tag Sets & Image Maps
- Build HTML Forms
- Embed Image Rollovers & Export HTML Web pages
- Text-to-image Conversion
QuarkXpress 9 System Requirements
Windows:
Software
- Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or 3), Windows Vista 1.0, or Windows 7
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
- Tested on Citrix
Hardware
- 2GB RAM (1GB minimum)
- 1GB hard disk space
Optional
- An Internet connection for activation
- DVD-ROM drive for installation from DVD (not required for installation from download)
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