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QuarkXPress is powerful layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalog houses, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing requirements.
Features:
- Intuitive and adaptable interface
- Picture manipulation and color management
- Flexible options for importing and editing text
- Precise and professional typography
- Multiple document layout and text flow options
- Share attributes among complex projects
- Tools for creative document design
- Professional printing capabilities
- Tools for media-independent publishing
- XTensions software for customizing workflow
- QuarkXPress Passport
QuarkXPress 6 software includes a wealth of new design and productivity-enhancing features that let you produce professional layouts--for print and the Web--more efficiently than ever.
- Direct PDF export: because PDF creation technology has been incorporated into QuarkXPress 6, you can output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without buying third-party software.
- Layout spaces with synchronized text: Layout spaces simplify the management of complex projects by providing the ability to share specifications such as style sheets, colors, hyphenation settings, and lists among layouts. You can also include multiple content types and layouts with varying page sizes in a single file. Synchronizing content allows you to share text between layouts.
- Full-resolution preview: Full-resolution preview displays images at the file’s full resolution so that you can scale or magnify images with minimal pixelation and position page elements more precisely. You must register your copy of QuarkXPress before you can access this feature.
- Mac OS X v10.2, Windows 2000, and Windows XP support: QuarkXPress 6 has been specifically designed to run in the native Mac OS X v10.2, Windows 2000, and Windows XP environments with the innovative user interfaces of these operating systems.
- Improved, interactive tools for Web page design: create a more compelling Web experience through better design with new and enhanced tools, including two-position rollovers, cascading menus, font family specification for cascading style sheets, form controls improvements, and more.
- Print capabilities broadened and enhanced: improvements to output features, including As Is Color Space and DeviceN, underscores Quark’s continued commitment to supporting open standards in the workflow and delivering the highest quality output.
Product Description
Item #: F72218. QuarkXPress is powerful layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalog houses, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing requirements.QuarkXPress 6 software includes a wealth of new design and productivity-enhancing features that let you produce professional layouts - for print and the Web - more efficiently than ever.Because PDF creation technology has been incorporated into QuarkXPress 6, you can output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without buying third-party software.Layout spaces simplify the management of complex projects by providing the ability to share specifications such as style sheets, colors, hyphenation settings, and lists among layouts. You can also include multiple content types and layouts with varying page sizes in a single file. Synchronizing content allows you to share text between layouts.Full-resolution preview displays images at the file's full resolution so that you can scale or magnify images with minimal pixelation and position page elements more precisely. You must register your copy of QuarkXPress before you can access this feature.Create a more compelling Web experience through better design with new and enhanced tools, including two-position rollovers, cascading menus, font family specification for cascading style sheets, form controls improvements, and more.Improvements to output features, including As Is Color Space and DeviceN, underscores Quark's continued commitment to supporting open standards in the workflow and delivering the highest quality output. Product Description: QuarkXPress ( v. 6.0 ) - complete package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - desktop publishing
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Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - desktop publishing
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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY!! ONLY A FOOL WOULD PREFER THIS!!,
This review is from: QuarkXpress 6.0 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
This program is a complete joke. Quark has basically re-issued Quark 4 (and 5 for that matter) with almost NOTHING new worth mention.
* The very first thing you'll notice is this ridiculous validation scheme. Think you're going to buy software and install it and go to work? Wrong!! You have to be validated first which, if something goes wrong, can take DAYS! * The multiple undo's would have been a great feature for 1998, even now not everything is undo-able. * Quark has this wonderful new system of "Projects" and documents. If you ever pick-up an old document to make some changes and then re-save as a new one, the old file name remains with the file because Quark assumes you're just adding a new document to the project...A MAJOR ANNOYANCE! If you do use the project thing as intended (multiple documents and sizes wrapped up into a single file) you still have to collect each individual document seperately! HELLO?! HOW BOUT "COLLECT ALL"?? * The "Export to PDF" feature so rarely works, I don't even bother with it. I still have to "print" to a PDF. * The "full resolution preview" isn't and frequently causes crashes when trying to change the preview res on a picture. * All the old stupid annoying things about Quark are faithfully preserved in version 6... * Still no "update all" feature in the links menu. * Still no way to select a graphic and tell Quark to re-link to something different. * Still no key commands to select tools on the tool palette. * Still limited to 48x48" layouts. * Still no support for OpenType. If you use OpenType fonts, expect lots of very strange letter spacings, etc. * Lots of people still use Quark 4. If you need to save down, you must save from Q6 to Q5, then Q5 to Q4. If you're upgrading from 4 to 6, YOU'RE SCREWED! Quark 6 WILL NOT save down to Quark 4! * Quark brags about all these new features that NOBODY will have a use for. Web pages?! PLEASE! Not even even a half-a** hack web designer would try to create a website in Quark! I tried just for the experience and believe me, it's a joke! 3 words... NO CODE VIEW!! How bout 4 more? NO MEASUREMENT IN PIXELS. These things alone makes Quark a web program not to be taken seriously. If you're DYING to waste nearly $900, keep your antique Quark 4 or 5 and take that money to Vegas. Better yet, download a free trial of InDesign and see what a REAL page layout program should look like in the year 2004!
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
REASONS I HATE QUARK.,
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This review is from: QuarkXpress 6.0 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
Quark USED TO BE the industry standard for layout. They had it cornered. But in the last few years, they've managed to jack it all up. Version 5 barely improved on 4 at all, and then there was a long, long wait for the hallowed version 6, and in the meantime Adobe was sneaking up behind them with InDesign. And a lot of us started using InDesign, and maybe we got a little spoiled. When Quark 6 FINALLY came out, it was already too late for me. I'm a total InDesign convert. We have Quark at work, and I still use it regularly as projects require. But for anything I do on my own, if have a choice, it's an incredibly easy one.
I can run through the usual Xmas list of problems associated with Quark 6 - the problems exporting to PDF, the OpenType font issues, the need for additional Xtensions to do things that InDesign does all by its lonesome, the OSX glitches, the problems collecting all your links, the lack of a functional hi-res preview, the inexplicable crashes...and I really have to say something about that idiot who said Mac is obsolete and Quark can't be bothered to cater to Mac users, and that Quark's font issues are actually Mac's fault! What a total crackhead! Mac IS the design industry! Not only that, he criticizes people for criticizing the fact that you can't use transparency, Photoshop layered files, etc in Quark, on the basis that it often doesn't print properly in Indesign and that you can use layered TIFFs instead of Photoshop in Quark. To that I say that if you have a service provider who actually knows what he's doing, InDesign transparency issues can usually be resolved, and why shouldn't you use a program that supports Photoshop AND layered TIFFs? But anybody in the design industry who refers to "the obsolete Mac system" clearly has his head so far up his own rectal that he's quite beyond hope of redemption. There's also the fact that Quark's decided to be total Nazis about their licensing - with 6 you originally just got the single licence for one machine. How many people DON'T work on the road on a notebook these days? More evidence that they just aren't keeping up with designers' needs. Eventually they realized they were being stupid and relaxed this a bit - you can now have it on 2 machines - but of course you have to call and wait on hold for 30 minutes before somebody in India reads you a license number longer than the Magna Carta. They just can't afford to be like this anymore! But it's nice for Adobe that they've thought of so many ways to alienate their base. QUARK is obsolete. If they hadn't waited so long to step up to OSX, people might not have caught on to the fact that InDesign was so much better - but we have now. So Quark and Mr. Brown are going the way of the beta VCR. Don't let the door hit ya!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A very disappointing Upgrade 5 -> 6 with no WOW features,
By Quinton Mar (Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: QuarkXpress 6.0 (Mac) (CD-ROM)
I have been using Quark Express for over ten years and was very disappointed with this much awaited upgrade in general. It does run under OS 10.2 but I found it very font-unstable, crashing my G4 (grey screen in OSX) several times trying to open older saved Quark 4.1 documents and also tying to output .pdf files using the built in Jaws technology.In general it feels very much like a basic OS9 -> X conversion and not much more. The layers function lack folders or nested folders and you will have to buy extensions like ALAP shadowcaster to import photoshop layered files and create drop shadows or transparent objects. The document size is still limited to 1200mm, the dictionary is poor, the keyboard shortcuts don't allow toolbox changes and their is no colour separations preview function. In Design CS has gone well past Quark 6 and I will be cross grading to that program, try to get away from Quark, and trying to secure a stable future in the design software area.
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