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 Passport

QuarkXPress Passport® offers all the features and capabilities of QuarkXPress plus the ability to display menus, check spelling, and properly hyphenate text in 11 languages - making your international publishing easier and more efficient.

It features:

• Intuitive and adaptable interface
• Picture manipulation and color management
• Flexible options for importing and editing text
• Precise and professional typography
• Multiple document layout and text flow options
• Share attributes among complex projects
• Tools for creative document design
• Professional printing capabilities
• Tools for media-independent publishing
• XTensions software for customizing workflow
• QuarkXPress Passport

New features:

Transparency

Color opacity

Alpha channel masks in TIFF and PSD

Drop shadows

Synchronized angle

Runaround

Picture Effects enhancements

Support for raster EPS

Non-destructive mask manipulation

Integrates with Shared Content feature

PSD Import enhancements

Background transparency supported (in addition to layer transparency and blending modes)

Composition Zones

Revolutionary layout feature lets you design once and use anywhere with live updates

Intuitive color management

Automatic monitor profile detection

Easy soft proofing

Shared Content

Retain picture attributes when replacing pictures

Synchronize attributes and content of any item, image, or text

Typography

Advanced OpenType features

Glyph palette

Insert Special Character menu

Font fallback

Streamlined interface

Measurement palette enhancements

Smart palette snapping

Identify layer items with layer colors

Tables enhancements

Running headers and footers

Splitting tables and running tables

Auto resize cells

Automatically select all even rows, even columns, odd rows, or odd columns

Transparency

XDraw graphics

Improved text smoothing

Anti-aliased graphic export to Web

Quark Job Jackets

Synchronized design settings (among multiple users)

Synchronized color settings (among multiple users)

Customizable preflighting (layout evaluation)

JDF support

Advanced color management

Backward compatibility

Source and output setups

Many new advanced settings

PDF/X 1-a and PDF/X 3

Evaluation

Verification

Output Styles

Print

EPS

PDF

PPML

Print dialog enhancements

Easy-to-use preview

Create Print Style from dialog

Font download

Output JDF

PostScript 3 enhancements

Summary screen

Projects and Layouts

Single layout mode

Append projects

Export Projects

Multiple Window and Split Window view

Variable data

PPML export