Quark Xpress 8.0 for Win / Mac

QuarkXPress 8 is a standard page-layout and design software that delivers superior design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout, print, Web and Flash authoring tools, design-driven typography, and global publishing capabilities - all of which enable designers to push creativity to its limits with confidence and control.

QuarkXPress 8 focuses on making the page-layout and design experience easier, faster, and fun. QuarkXPress 8 has a new, modern and intuitive interface with easier access to tools helping you work faster and design more with fewer clicks.

QuarkXPress 8 manages one of the most difficult tasks in software development, rethinking the user interface to make it more efficient, more productive, and more enjoyable, without alienating the experienced user. The potential productivity gains of the new release should be considerable.

KEY FEATURES Modern, Intuitive Interface
Work faster and design more with fewer clicks using the modern, intuitive interface of QuarkXPress 8.

New Picture and Pen Tools - Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress 8. Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool. Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bezier Pen tool.

Easy Page Layout with Drag and Drop - You can drag text and pictures from your desktop, Adobe Bridge, iP, or any other application that supports drag and drop, and your box is created for you. You can even drag picture boxes from QuarkXPress to your graphics application to customize your images.

Streamlined Tools with Familiar Keyboard Controls - Quark has streamlined and simplified the Tools palette, so the tools do more and it's easier to choose the right one. Even familiar tools like the Item and Content tools get major boosts. For example, you can rotate any box simply by grabbing its corner.

Design Across Media
Build on your existing expertise, share your print content across media with built-in Web and Flash authoring tools. No additional purchase or coding required!

Design and Output Flash (SWF) Directly from QuarkXPress, Page-layout professionals can create rich Flash projects, without compromising design, using the built-in Flash authouring capabilities included in every edition of QuarkXPress 8. Working in the same, familiar print environment of QuarkXPress 8, you can take existing print jobs to Flash, or create new Flash projects, in minutes.

Synchronize Content across Print, Web, and Flash, Not only does QuarkXPress let you create designer-friendly HTML and Flash content, it helps you maintain design consistency across media through Item Styles and the unique Shared Content feature. They keep your headlines, body copy, images, and even vector art the same across multiple layouts and media types with no need for manual updates.

Flash for Everyone - QuarkXPress 8 includes built-in Flash authoring, it's the only page-layout application that gives you the ability to create rich Flash projects easily, and without having to buy or use a separate application. QuarkXPress 8 follows a familiar, page-based model rather than a complex timeline, so you can build rich, fully interactive communications that include animation, video, and more using the same application you already know. If you've ever struggled to master Flash creation or avoided it altogether, you'll be amazed by how quickly you can create rich, attractive, and compelling interactive content with QuarkXPress 8!

Designer-driven Typography
Create stunning text and achieve the effects you want with designer-driven typography.

Hanging Characters - QuarkXPress 8 offers easy-to-use, precise, and fully customizable control for hanging characters. You can control the look of your text margin alignment by quickly applying preloaded settings for Hanging Punctuation and Punctuation Margin Alignment. And only QuarkXPress 8 offers the ability to apply your settings at the paragraph level. You can even include the hanging characters setting as part of a style sheet.

Design Grids/Advanced Baseline Grids - Design Grids give you the power to organize the design of your text, offering unprecedented control over your baseline grid settings, the ability to apply unique grid settings to individual boxes, and a Grid Styles feature that can keep even complex documents consistent.

Unicode and OpenType Support - QuarkXPress 8 supports the OpenType font standard and Unicode encodings that let you work with a massive range of special characters.

Work Faster and Smarter:

Integration - QuarkXPress 8 adds native Illustrator file import, standardized tools, and Adobe Bridge integration to existing designer-friendly Photoshop integration. QuarkXPress 8 allows working with other design applications with ease.

Rock Solid Output - QuarkXPress 8 ships with Output Styles and Quark Job Jackets that support major international output and advertising standards such as GWG PDF/X Plus.Now any designer can create PDF files that meet the highest standards, without needing advanced pre-press skills.

Precision and Efficiency - QuarkXPress 8 lets you to perfect the details, such as graphical thumbnails in the page navigation menu, an enhanced Measurements palette that shows you real image resolution, the ability to update style sheets with a single click, and many more enhancements that can help you design with more precision and efficiency.