QuarkXpress 6.5

by Quark, Inc

Product Features

• Page layout utility
• Output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without buying third-party software
• Layout spaces with synchronized text
• Improved, interactive tools for Web page design
• Improvements to output features, including As Is Color Space and DeviceN

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 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: B0000A1GPA
• Item model number: 119701
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 14, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,616 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #65 in Software > Business & Office > Word Processing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Item #: F72219. 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. 6.5 ) - complete package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - desktop publishing
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Flick Spin - going in, September 23, 2003

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Quinton Mar (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuarkXpress 6.5 (CD-ROM)

I have just installed Quark 6 after waiting years for a worthwhile upgrade. It feels to me like a basic rewrite of version 4.11 with no major attention to intergrating with Photoshop psd format, industrial strength Acrobat PDF making tools and no compatibility with Illustrator .ai drawing format.

I wonder if the CEO of Quark has the faintest idea what the CORE business of designers really is or what they expect from Quark. Designers use Dreamweaver or Golive to make websites and wanted Quark 6 as a rock stable design LAYOUT tool with cool features - no more. It was the Mac community that built the Quark company yet they have quickly abandoned their client in the search for new fields in the PC sea.

I got a clean install and registration via the web, followed by multiple crashes and conflicts with fonts in OSX 10.2.6 when I did basic things like try to open 4.11 files, try to Export as PDF and try to use Suitcase X1 to autoactivate fonts I have been using for years. The program really lacks any tolerance to font duplicates under OSX.

Quark 6.1 must soon intergrate with Adobe photoshop, Acrobat distiller and Illustrator or it will flick,spin,crash and burn into the forgotton wasteland. In that wasteland you will find every software company that abandoned its CORE business and clients.

I don't care where it's made, but I really DO care about stability, features and more stability.

Also I would like to question the integrity of MAC and PC websites who have given Quark v6 a 4/5 rating. These journalists are easily distracted by press-release-smoke-screens of new web features designers don't depend on. As a registered user of Quark for 10 years, I give the new version 2 or 3/5 for its lack of new typesetting features, poor dictionary, token-only layers, 1200mm size limit, general anti-Adobe compatibility and font instability.

I will also be crossgrading to In-design to protect my future.

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars We'll be Watching You!, December 1, 2003

By 

Confederate (Bethesda, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: QuarkXpress 6.5 (CD-ROM)

I love Quark's software. But it does have its quirks. First, most of its latest improvements seem to be in tweaking an aggravating activation system that is frequently corrupted and requires reactivation. So if you're operating off a notebook and can't reactivate, you have to call Quark, wait forever for a new code to be generated, and painstakingly type it in.

Second, Quark has gone through great lengths to make its web design module work better, but I never use Quark for web design, so that only makes the program bigger and klunkier.

Quark 6 does do multiple undos, for which it deserves kudos; however, it's maddening to find out that not all actions are undoable. Write down the ones that aren't or you'll be sorry.

Finally, one computer, one program. Forget about having this baby on your home and work computer or your desktop and notebook.

My advice? If you have Quark 5, keep it and cherish it. If you don't, get Quark 5 off EBay and let some other sucker upgrade. And finally, if you want to come over to the light side of The Force, get Adobe's fabulous InDesign. Not only is it better behaved, it has no activation and you can put it on both of your computers. It's also more stable. For me personally, I'm staying with Quark 5.

Good luck.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why you should not upgrade or even buy at all!, October 19, 2003

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Dawn March "susanfame" (Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: QuarkXpress 6.5 (CD-ROM)

I am a graphic designer that has been using Quark since the begining. I absoulutely HATE version 6.0 and warn anyone thinking of upgrading to STAY AWAY! If you are looking at both Quark and In Design and don't know which to choose GO FOR IN DESIGN! Quark 6.0 is so full of bugs that you will need to tent your computer (after you pull all of your hair out). I just installed it (after much trouble getting it, due to Quark's terrible customer support and mess up in my order verification) I have only been using it for 2 hours (much of that spent trying to fix the mess ups to no avail) So far... the library feature doesn't work correctly (to put it mildly) I have 6 years of libraries and many items won't pull up (you can select the label for an item and it won't show up in the library) when I am scrolling through it will crash the library so that by the time you are in the "M" section it starts over at "A" and skips the rest of the alphabet (bet you never had that happen before), when you double click on an item to get its label it has to think for about 30 seconds (I have a top of the line machine with so much memory it would make your head swim). Then, the paste feature doesn't work AT ALL (no shortcut, no way, no how) and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

If you are looking for a layout program for the first time and someone told you Quark is a must, just walk away and learn In Design. Adobe is the best company out there and Quark is not worth the frustration or heartache.