Why should I use QuarkXPress?

As a professional publisher, you probably produce everything from black-and-white flyers to full-color, corporate communications. Or, you may specialize in newspaper or magazine publishing. No matter what you produce, you'll appreciate the versatility and power of QuarkXPress.

Benefits

QuarkXPress adheres to publishing standards such as the type and page-composition measurements and precision pioneered by designers, typesetters, prepress experts, and commercial printers. QuarkXPress also has unlimited publishing options available through XTensions(TM), which customize and expand the program's capabilities. Some of the key benefits of QuarkXPress:

Powerful, easy-to-use interface

• Use identical core features in QuarkXPress for Macintosh and QuarkXPress for Windows. Apple Events scripting support for building integrated systems and automating repetitive tasks (QuarkXPress for Macintosh); support for OLE in QuarkXPress for Windows.
• Build documents, apply style sheets, colors, and trapping, specify item positions and rotation angles, and store frequently used items using six floating, interactive palettes.
• Set more than 40 program-wide defaults.
• Specify page sizes ranging from 1" by 1" to 48" x 48".
• Lock items or groups to pages to prevent accidental movement of items.

Flexible document-construction features

• Create up to 127 master pages per document.
• Create single-sided or facing-page documents with multipage spreads.
• Drag-apply master page attributes to document pages.
• Drag items, groups, or entire pages from document to document.
• Copy, paste, or move groups containing linked stories into libraries.

Precise typographic controls

• Specify type from 2 points to 720 points in .001-pt. increments.
• Kern and track text to .000005-em space.
• Interactively resize text by dragging a box handle.
• Scale characters vertically or horizontally.

Professional graphics-handling capabilities

• Import graphics in 19 formats, including JPEG, TIFF, EPS, PICT, Scitex CT and LineWork, Photo CD, Windows metafile, PCX and BMP formats.

Popular word-processing features

• Import/export text in nine formats, including Microsoft Word, WriteNow, MacWrite II, WordPerfect, XPress Tags, and ASCII.
• Use typographers' quotes automatically instead of foot and inch marks.
• Share style sheets, colors, and H&J settings between documents.

Unparalleled color management

• Using built-in EfiColor(TM), match colors more closely from scanned input to output on a variety of monitors, digital printers, and offset presses.
• Spot colors from imported EPS files automatically added to Colors list.
• Use many color models to add colors and shades of colors to QuarkXPress documents, including HSB, RGB, CMYK, pantone, Toyo, and DIC.
• Trap colors automatically or on an item-by-item or color-by-color basis.

Expert page-composition features

• Use variable-shaped text and picture boxes in any shape.
• Flip the contents of text and picture boxes horizontally and/or vertically.
• Rotate text and pictures 360 degrees; text is fully editable after rotation.
• Skew text and pictures from -75 degrees to 75 degrees in .001-degree units.

Unequalled output and printing controls

• Save pages as EPS in color or black-and-white, Mac or PC, DCS or DCS 2.0.
• Prepare documents for high-res output and generate document reports.
• Suppress or enable printing of individual pictures.
• Update missing pictures all at once.
• Use either printer description files (PDFs) or PostScript printer descriptions (PPDs version 4.0 and greater) to print documents.

Ease of use

• Set user-definable file recovery and document revision controls.
• Greek pictures for faster scrolling; elements redraw after scrolling.
• Tile windows, even across multiple monitors.

System requirements for QuarkXPress for Macintosh

• Macintosh Classic, Portable, SE, PowerBook or greater.
• 3MB free RAM. Additional memory is required for color- or graphics-intensive documents.
• System 6.0.5 or greater; Apple LaserWriter 6.0 or greater.

System requirements for QuarkXPress for Power Macintosh

• Power Macintosh computer
• 4.5MB of application RAM (RAM not used by the System or other applications) with Virtual Memory OFF. Additional memory is required for color- or graphics-intensive documents.
• CD-ROM drive for installing the program. The CD-ROM drive can be connected directly to the computer or can be accessed over a network.
• Hard disk drive with at least 8MB of free space for installation.

System requirements for QuarkXPress for Windows

• 80386-based (or greater) DOS-compatible computer.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or greater.
• Windows PostScript driver version 3.5 or greater.
• 4MB of RAM (additional memory may be required for color- or graphics-intensive applications); hard drive; high-density floppy disk drive.
• Windows-supported VGA or better graphics adapter; VGA or better monitor; Windows-compatible mouse.
• Windows-supported PostScript printer with 2MB of RAM (additional memory may be required for graphics-intensive applications).
• Adobe Type Manager (ATM) 2.0 or greater is required if Type 1 fonts are used.