Combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output
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.
Work faster and design more with fewer clicks using the modern, intuitive interface of
QuarkXPress 8.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!Create stunning text and
achieve the effects you want with designer-driven typography.
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 — 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.
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 — 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!
Create Stunning Text and Achieve the Effects you Want with 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, 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.
Integration
Working together with other design applications has never been easier! QuarkXPress 8 adds native
Illustrator® file import, standardized tools, and Adobe Bridge integration to existing
designer-friendly Photoshop integration.
You can import or drag and drop an Illustrator file directly to your page. Better still, use our
redefined illustration tool set to draw like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications,
making illustration changes where it matters most — in the context of your layout.
Importing Photoshop files is just the beginning — QuarkXPress is also the only page-layout application
that gives designers control of creative features such as layer transparency, blend modes, and spot
colour channels right on the page.
Design Using Dictionaries and Hyphenation in More Than 30 Languages
Whether you’re designing multi-lingual documents or repurposing a document from another part of the
world, QuarkXPress 8 offers global publishing capabilities and support for more than 30 languages in
every edition.
Virtually anywhere in the world your workflow extends, the new global file format, hyphenation, and
spelling capabilities of QuarkXPress 8 mean that you can be sure your team works together seamlessly.
What’s more, you can even open, edit, style, and output East Asian documents without worries.
QuarkXPress also includes multiple-language user interfaces that can be switched at will, letting your
team members work in the language they choose.
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