QuarkXpress 5.0

by Quark, Inc

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000060PCS
• Item model number: 116846
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,348 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

QuarkXPress 5.0's new and enhanced tool suite produces professional print and electronic media publications more efficiently than ever before. Design Web pages and entire Web sites using the same palettes and tools you use to publish print documents. And because QuarkXPress 5.0 conforms to open standards, your Web pages can be opened and edited in standards-based HTML development tools, such as Dreamweaver. The 5.0 release also boasts an XML export tool that lets you extract content from QuarkXPress documents and store it in XML format.

QuarkXPress 5.0 streamlines print, Web, and PDF workflows by importing and exporting documents in dozens of file formats, including HTML and PDF, as well as XML format. The software's new tables tool sports typographic and image controls that create graphically rich tables in no time. QuarkXPress 5.0 also adds a new layers tool that isolates items within documents, letting you manage hundreds of document variants and making it an ideal tool for separating multiple design elements within a document.

With version 5.0, the QuarkXPress design environment gets Web savvy. Add drop-down lists, rollovers, hyperlinks, image maps, and metatags to your Web page designs. The product's powerful XTensions interface lets developers enhance QuarkXPress to meet the needs of unique publishing workflows, while its new License Administrator benefits publishers with multiple-seat installations by helping larger organizations share the use of a smaller number of licenses.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Gouges the Consumer Plus Frustrating as all get out, March 3, 2003

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carol irvin "carol irvin" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuarkXpress 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I made up my mind a year ago to learn 4 computer art/graphics based programs, the industry leaders. These were Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Quark. Of the four, my worst experience has been with Quark. I find myself fighting it every step of the way and that there is no intuitive sense to its interface. To add insult to injury, it is by far the more expensive of the 4 programs. To think that this program is ... more than Photoshop, an absolute masterpiece of a program, boggles my mind! I also find the educational support materials and online assistance for this product way below what is available for the other three. Adobe's website is a consumer/educational paradise in comparison to Quark's idea of consumer/educational support. I've just seen Adobe's In Design, the competitor for this product, demonstrated live in the classroom and I am eager to try it instead, especially since it was designed to work hand in hand with Photoshop and Illustrator. My design work uses a lot of visuals so Photoshop-friendly is very important to me. I'd try this product and Adobe's In Design out at your local community college first before spending this kind of money on this program. I also saw in the classroom demo that you can pull any of your existing Quark files right into Adobe's In Design so no one should have trouble switching over to it.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heartfelt QuarkXPressions from a long-time user, July 12, 2003

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Kevin Cook "Darlin' Boy" (McDonough, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuarkXpress 5.0 (CD-ROM)

Pay no attention to the catty doom-sayers: QuarkXPress is here to stay. Quark is too firmly entrenched in the collective consciousness of the computer community at large, and has too many diehard loyalists, to go quietly into that good night, just because a certain monopolistic competitor is banging loudly at the gate. The demand for Version 6, released in June, is phenomenally high. The reason is elementary: Quark is the best LAYOUT program - an all-important distinction - available, period, and has been since the dawn of desktop publishing.

My personal experience with Quark goes back to 1993, when I started a home-based advertising agency specializing in Yellow Page advertising. Quark was the first program I loaded on my then-formidable Macintosh Centris 610 (which nowadays sits on a couple of cement blocks out in the yard). I had never touched a computer in my life before then, but I felt an instant rapport with Quark, whose logical interface brilliantly exemplified the "your computer is your desktop" metaphor. (I might add, before starting my business, I had been a "paste-up artist" for nearly ten years, working with X-acto knives, layout boards, art wax, etc. It was easy for me to make a seamless transition from these tactile tools to Quark's virtual workspace.) To those who find Quark "non-intuitive," "non-user friendly," "frustrating" and "difficult," I politely suggest, perhaps you are in the wrong business. I've found Quark to be the polar opposite of these pejoratives.

For ten years now, Quark has been my primary program AND my favorite one. No exaggeration: I could not have survived the text-intensive world of the Yellow Pages without Quark's peerless typographical capabilities. I use Quark not only for my bread-and-butter YP work, but for virtually every print need imaginable: forms, labels, brochures, newsletters, calendars, greeting cards - you name it. For business correspondence and for creative or leisure writing (including all my Amazon reviews), Quark is also my chosen collaborator. After ten years, we're inseparable.

Sure, Quark has its quirks - I defy you to name an application that doesn't. (For instance, whenever I collapse a window in Illustrator, my G-4 freezes. I've never been able to figure that one out.) Considering the myriad of GREAT things about Quark, I prefer to think of its occasional lapses as the entertaining skulduggery of cyber-gremlins, no doubt playing pool with all those ones and zeroes. I never get bent out of shape over Quark's idiosyncrasies, because these, too, shall pass with a little sweet-talk, patience and tinkering.

I will never throw Quark over for Adobe InDesign for several reasons. One, I am too fond of and too loyal to Quark ever to betray my trust in the product. Two, I have nothing but admiration for the maverick Quark company, which has steadfastly resisted encroachments on its territory. And three, I have enough Adobe products already, thank you very much. I like them well enough, but I will not put any more money in the coffers of a humongous company that enjoys quite enough dominance already and has no business trying to rope and tie my favorite maverick.

It's important for desktop publishers and other professionals to have choices that don't include Adobe in their titles. For me, the only choice is QuarkXPress.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars QUITE SIMPLY: QUARK ...., April 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: QuarkXpress 5.0 (CD-ROM)

We have been using Quark in our design office for three years, and are extremely glad to have finally purchased InDesign to replace it.

For too long now, we tolerated Quark's limitations and non-user friendly interface. When we purchased it, we were sold on the program's multi-page layout "strengths" (smirk). But printing a 170 page book, three times a year, has proven to be a feat/ritual, each time we need to proof, then more problems when we pdf files to press.

Maps I placed as .eps files 4 months ago have to be replaced because otherwise they print blurry. As soon as I REPLACE the map with the same .eps map file, it prints fine. Why do I only have this problem with "Quirk? "

What a hassle. It's not our printer network folks, it's not us, and it's certainly not our G4 Firewire 800s. It's the quirky make-up of Quark. Bugs continue to shoot out of it to this day.

I have more bad examples but I won't go on. If you don't take my word for it, fine. Call any design/print shop in the city you live in and ask when & why they switched to Indesign. You will be shocked.

Quark is a rapidly burning and sinking ship. You can't say I didn't warn you.