Jan 13, 2014 - As the big dog of desktop publishing in the '80s and '90s, QuarkXPress was synonymous with professional publishing. In fact, it was publishing. Quark develops a content automation platform that helps organizations streamline the creation, management, publishing and delivery of business-critical content. Quark solutions automate the process with reusable Smart Content components, dynamically.
UNSURPASSED TYPOGRAPHY First-Class OpenType Controls We all know that OpenType fonts offer the best typography options such as proper small caps, real fractions, ligatures, tabular figures, stylistic sets suggested by font designers and much more. However, most applications hide typographic functionality offered by OpenType or make it almost impossible to apply.
QuarkXPress 2018 is different: For the first time OpenType is treated as a first-class citizen. Rather than hide the options in multiple submenus we make OpenType easier to use. With QuarkXPress 2018 you can now control your OpenType fonts the way you expect to. Colour Fonts Support For many years the changes in typography have been incremental rather than radicalthat is until colour fonts emerged. (Emoji icons on your phone are examples of colour fonts.) While browsers have supported colour fonts for years, print publications have ignored them until now: QuarkXPress 2018 is the first layout application that fully supports Colour Fonts. QuarkXPress supports Colour Fonts in SVG, SBIX and COLR formats.
And you can use them in print, PDF and digital outputs. To get a sense of how Colour Fonts work and how they will open up a broad new space for your creativity, check out this website. Upgraded Font Listing A good typeface can increase the reading pleasure of the viewer but even the best typefaces are not appropriate for every situation. Font listing has been overhauled in QuarkXPress 2018 to help you make the best typographic choices.
Font Family and available Font Styles (Roman, Bold, etc.) are now listed in two separate combinations. Additionally, font styles are mapped to the type styles buttons P/B/I in the palettes and dialog. Of course you can still turn off the WYSIWYG font listing for font family listing plus font styles are always listed in the default system font. Hyphenation Strictness Levels QuarkXPress has delivered quality hyphenation technology since version 6.5. It’s based on technology licensed from UB Dieckmann, considered by many to be the best hyphenation available on the market. But it gets better.
In QuarkXPress 2018 you can choose between five hyphenation strictness levels. You can hyphenate everywhere that is grammatically correct or e.g. Chose to only hyphenate compound words. You pick which strictness level is best for your publication. And of course, you can decide that for each individual paragraph if you choose.
Hyphenation strictness levels are available for all languages supported by the QuarkXPress hyphenation engine, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and many more. Full Support for Indic Languages To help customers publish in popular Indic languages, the latest QuarkXPress 2018 now offers full support for Indic Unicode fonts as well as embraces native OS features for keyboard input methods for Indian languages. It also supports analyzing and reordering characters as per Indic orthographic syllable boundaries; conjunct creation and glyph positioning; Hunspell hyphenation support for 11 Indian languages that offers spell checking and hyphenation methods; text input through keyboard: copy & paste and direct import and more. PROFESSIONAL PRINT PUBLISHING Direct InDesign® IDML Import With more and more InDesign users switching to QuarkXPress, it was time to make it even easier to migrate.
Of course, you can use existing QuarkXPress features to convert PDF files created in any application or even copy and paste InDesign objects into native QuarkXPress objects. However, this only migrates the design elements and not style sheets and master pages, for example. The new native InDesign IDML Import in QuarkXPress 2018 converts InDesign IDML documents directly into the QuarkXPress format. Features, which InDesign offers and QuarkXPress does not, will not be converted. Not all InDesign features are currently supported. Features where QuarkXPress offers superior functionality over InDesign may need rework to make use of the full capabilities of QuarkXPress.
New PDF Print Engine Requirements for PDF workflows increase permanently. To keep up the pace, we implemented the best PDF technology available on the market – callas® pdfToolbox – which even contains the Adobe® PDF libraries. That means QuarkXPress 2018 users benefit from the highest quality PDF, PDF/X and PDF/A, driven by two of the best PDF technology providers. Now with leading PDF technology, QuarkXPress 2018 is the first layout application with the ability to create one single PDF/X-A file that complies with both the PDF/X-4 and PDF/A-2b standards. Combined with the new built-in JavaScript capabilities, the new PDF Print Engine opens up a broad new way for print production automation. Tagged/Accessible PDF Accessibility compliant PDFs are not just important but often mandatory.
Many large corporates, governments suppliers are required by law to supply information published online in an accessible format. HTML5 is an obvious choice; often workflows require accessible PDFs. The new PDF engine in QuarkXPress 2018 combined with new tools for accessibility make this possible. Even if you don’t need tagged PDFs for accessibility reasons, there are many benefits to understanding the text flow embedded within your PDFs. Built-in JavaScript ES6+ based on V8 Scriptability and extensibility have always been core values of QuarkXPress. With QuarkXPress 2018 you can now write cross platform JavaScripts to automate repetitive tasks by accessing capabilities beyond the user interface.
For example, you - or anyone with basic Java Scripting and HTML programming skills (HTML DOM manipulation) - can create unique features by accessing application and file system level commands, you can modify layout objects using document object model (DOM API). Unlike the competition, QuarkXPress 2018 uses an up-to-date version of JavaScript (ECMAScript ES6+). HTML5 Export Optimizations HTML5 Publications and ePub now export even more items as native HTML5 elements. This includes support for type styles (Outline, Shadow), Tables as HTML tables, Anchored text boxes, grouped boxes and Tables, non-solid rules, footnote separators and Index entries as Hyperlinks. Digital Preview Improvements The following new HTML5 Preview options are available when authoring in QuarkXPress 2018: Page Preview, Layout Preview, Project Preview. Grouped Items Interactivity Add interactivity to groups e.g.
Buttons, Animations, Audio & Video. STREAMLINED USER INTERFACE VERTICAL MEASUREMENT PALETTE QuarkXPress 2018 provides new clarity with a vertical measurement palette especially for use on wide and high-resolution monitors. This powerful new floating palette provides access to all controls and attributes, is keyboard addressable and includes all previous shortcut keys (remember old modal CMD+M dialog?). It’s also scrollable with easy-to-read labels so you always know which measurements you are changing without guessing or having to mouse over the icon.
Work even faster now in QuarkXPress 2018! (macOS only). MORE WISH LIST FEATURES Digital-to-Print Conversion (Digital First Workflow) QuarkXPress 2018 now allows duplication of Digital layouts to Print layouts. This is powerful: Start with your digital design/publication first and then - in a second step - create a printable subset of it. Span Footnotes over Columns Footnotes can now be formatted to span across all columns of a text box.
Spanning all columns is the default setting but you can turn it off in the Footnote Separator Style dialog. Different Border for each side Select a different border style on each side for all square or rectangular shaped boxes. The new frame options are added to the main measurement palette.
10 to 1000% Print Scaling Print to device scaling is now allowed between 10% and 1000%. In previous versions, scaling was limited from 25% to 400%. Note: The output device should be supported for larger paper size to verify. Flip Groups Flip grouped objects in one go retaining their relative position within the group.
QuarkXPress is a layout and prepress program that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output. It offers a variety of features for layout and design, typography, color management, and output. Comprehensive printing controls allow you to output almost any type of document.
You can create Web documents that contain rollovers, hyperlinks, and forms. You can also extract content to Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. XML content can then be used with HTML templates to. With QuarkXPress, you can communicate in all the ways you need to — and always look professional— in print and digital media, all in a single tool. QuarkXPress Features: Incredible Performance With its new 64-bit architecture, QuarkXPress can use all of the RAM available to deliver performance improvements across the board from file handling and layout rendering to PDF export. Combined with a relentless focus on quality means you get the speed and reliability you deserve. Xenon Graphics Engine The new state-of-the-art Xenon Graphics Engine takes full advantage of your computer’s processing power, rendering rich PDFs, Photoshop and TIFF images to give you maximum performance at the most appropriate resolution.
Modern and Optimised UI From the new full-screen view to auto-hiding dockable palettes, QuarkXPress 2015 has been redesigned inside and out. Streamlined, Modern, Intuitive Interface We developed QuarkXPress with you in mind. The streamlined, modern, intuitive interface of QuarkXPress provides a workspace that lets you achieve your design and layout goals as effortlessly as possible.
Intelligent Palettes Intelligent palettes and windows that are aware of their surroundings mean you spend less time arranging and more time designing. Dock palettes to screen edges, turn on hiding, drag and drop, snap to windows and more. Shortcut keys enable even faster access and the Palette Sets feature makes remembering your favorite configuration a breeze. Adaptive Resolution Technology When it comes to viewing images within a layout, most desktop publishing tools ask designers to compromise on quality, performance or both. In contrast, by utilising the latest processor technology, the Adaptive Resolution feature in QuarkXPress delivers high-resolution images every time without compromising performance.
Task-based Tools One of the most time-consuming aspects of design and production is getting to the right tool at the right time. QuarkXPress minimizes your trips to the Tools Palette by putting the right tools at your fingertips. Libraries Is there a logo, a design, a run of text you use all the time? Put them in a library — then the next time you need it, you can just drag a copy of it from the library to the page. Multiple Views To tweak details, you have to zoom in. To get the big picture, you have to zoom out. QuarkXPress lets you do both at the same time.
With the Split View feature, you can divide a window into separate views of the same layout, and each view acts like a separate window, with its own magnification. You can even divide views across multiple monitors. Learn Once for Multiple Channels QuarkXPress provides a toolset that lets you design and publish for a variety of output formats — including the 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. Drag and Drop QuarkXPress lets you drag text and picture files onto the page from your desktop. You don’t even have to draw a box; just drag it in and you’re done. You can also drag content to and from other applications, such as Adobe® Bridge and iPhoto®.
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