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Quark Xpress 8 Retail Box for Windows and Mac OSX
Inspired by the designer’s passion for perfection, QuarkXPress® 8 complements the way creative professionals work. Strive to do better and constantly improve — employ page-layout and design software developed to help get you there.
New Picture and Pen Tools
Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress® 8.
New Picture ToolIntuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool — no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image!
Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool — just like you do in Illustrator® and other major graphics applications. Most importantly, you can focus on the task at hand because we’ve separated illustration tools from the tools you use for basic page-layout tasks.
* 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
Easy Page Layout with Drag and Drop
Page Layout Made Easy with Drag and DropLittle things make a big difference — we think you’ll love the way we handle drag and drop.
Design as quickly and fluidly as your ideas. When you move your text or picture content to the page, the box is automatically created — no need to pre-define boxes!
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.
* 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
Streamlined Tools with Familiar Keyboard Controls
Picking the right tool for the job is easy in QuarkXPress 8.
Item and Content tool's rotationWe’ve streamlined and simplified our 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.Streamlined Tools palette
You’ll also enjoy single-key commands — consistent with familiar applications such as Photoshop® — to select tools, as well as keyboard modifiers for duplicating, scaling from center, and performing other common tasks.
By aligning with your other mission-critical tools, while keeping everything you love, QuarkXPress gives you the best of both worlds!
* 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
Design and Output Flash (SWF) Directly from QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress Outputs Directly to SWF (Flash®)Page-layout professionals can create rich Flash® projects — without compromising design — using the built-in Flash authoring 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 — no additional purchase or coding required! Interactive design in QuarkXPress 8 includes support for all of the new typographic features, the improved illustration (pen) tool set, full integration with Item Styles and other features, and support for more than 30 languages, including East Asian scripts. No other page-layout application gives you such advanced design capabilities that you can apply directly and easily to Flash design!
* 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
Synchronize Content across Print, Web, and Flash
One Set of Content in QuarkXPress Outputs to Print, Web, and FlashTake the headache out of creating complex campaigns across media — rich design across media is made possible — and available — only in QuarkXPress!
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. You can also place a live, Interactive layout into a Web layout, designing the Flash elements and the rest of the page at the same time, in the same application. Then, with a single click, you can export the layouts into HTML or SWF format!
* 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
Flash for Everyone
Designer, Editor, and Writer All Use QuarkXPress to Create SWFThanks to QuarkXPress 8, the dynamic medium of Flash is no longer restricted to highly trained programmers. Even better, because every edition of 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. No more juggling or learning multiple applications — just another example of innovation you expect from superior page-layout and design software.
Whether you're a freelancer aiming to provide a complete service to your clients for print, Web, and interactive design, or a business that wants to get the most design power out of your creative professionals, Web and Interactive layouts in QuarkXPress 8 let anyone design across media. It’s fast, easy, and cost-effective.
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.
At a glance
* 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
Create Stunning Text and Achieve the Effects you Want with
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, so settings don’t have to apply to an entire story. You can even include the hanging characters setting as part of a style sheet.
But our settings are just the beginning. You can build your own settings to precisely define the hang of any character you choose, including drop caps, to create the design effects that work for you.
* 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
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.
Move beyond the restrictions of a document-wide baseline grid and enjoy the ability to easily create grids based on existing style sheets, snap one grid to another, and even resize your grid based on how many lines of text you need to fit in a box.
* 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
Unicode and OpenType Support
OpenTypeDeveloped for global publishing, QuarkXPress 8 supports the OpenType® font standard and Unicode® encodings that let you work with a massive range of special characters. Every edition of QuarkXPress 8 can handle East Asian, Roman, Cyrillic, and other character types with new font menus that preview your chosen font as well as an enhanced Glyph's palette to help you find just the character you need. QuarkXPress 8 also supports more than 20 new OpenType features for East Asian scripts, leveraging the power of this font standard to create pro-quality typography.
* 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
System Requirements
Mac OS
* Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger®) or Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard™)
* G5 PowerPC processor or Intel processor (G4 minimum)
* 1GB RAM (256MB minimum)
* 1GB hard disk space
* DVD-ROM drive
* An Internet connection for activation
Windows
* Microsoft® Windows XP (service pack 2 or 3) or Windows Vista® 1.0 (certified on Windows Vista
* 1GB RAM (256MB minimum on Windows XP, 512MB minimum on Windows Vista)
* 500MB hard disk space
* DVD-ROM drive
* An Internet connection for activation
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