Quark 8 Ships (who cares?)
Does anybody still care about upgrades? Care about Quark?
Quark announced that QuarkXPress® 8, the next major release of the industry standard page-layout and design software, is now available to purchase.
QuarkXPress 8 delivers superior design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout and includes new features such as built-in print, Web and Flash® authoring tools, advanced typography control, and global publishing capabilities. QuarkXPress 8 also offers users an enhanced design experience so they can work faster and smarter by quickly and easily accessing the tools they need.
The new, intuitive interface delivers updates that allow for more design with fewer clicks. For example:
Flash and Web Authoring Tools: Without any programming skills, designers and creative professionals can share print content on the Web and in Flash format without purchasing multiple applications or learning code.
Picture Content Tool: Allows users to grab, rotate, and scale images in real-time without typing in numbers or switching from tool to tool.
Item Tool and Text Content Tool: Smart behavior within these tools allows for less switching between tools, even for rotation and managing multiple items.
New Bézier Pen Tools: Draw illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool.
Workspace Enhancements: Include new buttons for instant access to master pages and exporting to PDF, EPS, SWF, and HTML— plus new split-view buttons, enhanced contextual menus, and customizable active pasteboards.
Measurements Palette: Further enhanced to make even more functions easily accessible, including new clickable controls for on-the-fly drop-shadow modification.
Drag-and-Drop: Drag text and pictures from the desktop, Adobe® Bridge, iPhoto®, or any other application that supports drag and drop. Alternatively, drag content from QuarkXPress to Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Microsoft® Word, and other applications for direct editing.
“We are excited to announce the broad availability of QuarkXPress 8. This new version of our flagship product raises the bar once again for page-layout and design,” said Terry Welty, Senior Vice President of corporate marketing for Quark. “QuarkXPress 8 offers users advanced features and functionality and increased productivity while maintaining familiarity for long-time users. I encourage everyone to try QuarkXPress 8 with our 60-day Test Drive version, or visit us at one of our Xperience Design Global Tour stops.”
60-Day Test Drive
In addition to being available for purchase, Quark is also now offering a free, fully functional, 60-day Test Drive version to users who are interested in experiencing QuarkXPress’ new user interface, improved typographical control, built-in Flash functionality and much more. The 60-day Test Drive can be downloaded from http://8.quark.com/evaluation.html.
Xperience Design Global Tour
The Xperience Design Global Tour is now underway and, in total, will span 30 countries and 58 cities across the globe. The upcoming portion of the tour to hit the United States includes Dallas and Milwaukee (Pewaukee). The international tour will visit various cities in the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Please visit http://www.quark.com/about/events/quarkxpress8_roadshow.html to find out more.
Purchase Information
QuarkXPress 8 is now available for purchase directly from Quark and through Quark Authorized Resellers. An upgrade to QuarkXPress 8 from any previous version is $299 and full product can be purchased for $799. To purchase, visit the Quark Store http://www.quark.com/sales/estore.html or find your nearest authorized Quark reseller at http://www.quark.com/sales/desktop/resellers.cfm.
About Quark
Quark Inc. (www.quark.com) provides desktop publishing and dynamic publishing software that help customers design and publish richly designed communications across a broad spectrum of media. Two decades ago, our flagship product — QuarkXPress — changed the course of traditional publishing. Today, not only does QuarkXPress continue to innovate in the desktop publishing market — now Quark is revolutionizing publishing again with Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, helping customers cost-effectively meet enterprise-scale publishing challenges by extending the benefits of advanced technologies across the publishing process. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.
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Yes - people do care! The reviews of QuarkXPress 8 have been fabulous and people are seeing great changes within the software and the company itself.
The band of Quark haters will surely continue to voice their negitve opinions, and based on the dark years at Quark they probably have some valid reasons for their feelings. BUT - the people who were responsible for the problems within Quark back then are long gone. The company is fresh and growing, which is clearly seen in QuarkXPress 8.
I don’t expect attitudes to change over night, but before stating “Who Cares”, I suggest downloading the new version and taking the Test Drive. The feedback from users has been very positive. I know people care, and I know the new version is making an impact.
http://8.quark.com/evaluation.html.
Jim-
Thanks for the comment. It is refreshing to hear a comment from Quark, obviously you are compassionate about your product. I am glad to hear the comments have been positive. I hope Quark continues to succeed.
Quark is now officially 35% faster than InDesign from start to finish on any serious project. Not only can I make designs that look just as good or better (due to superior transparency, shadows, hanging punctuation controls and typography grids), but I can have my team work on the same document at the same time. Also Quark’s approach to making Flash is way more intuitive than Adobe’s. Remember just because Compuserve invented GIF, doesn’t mean they make the best GIF making program! Way to go Quark..looking forward to what’s next.