QuarkXPress 7.3 (Mac/Win)

QuarkXPress 7.3 includes more than 160 new and enhanced features to enable you to work faster and smarter. A new independent report from Ron Roszkiewicz Consulting quantifies this claim and concludes that QuarkXPress 7 offers the highest productivity in both design-intensive and production-intensive workflows.

The results show that QuarkXPress 7 is able to complete the workflow tasks in less time than other applications can. The report attributes this speed to the innovative new features in QuarkXPress 7, particularly those concerned with design and collaboration. The report also highlights the superior quality of the final PDF files generated by QuarkXPress 7 through the use of the Quark Job Jackets technology, ensuring the most consistent and reliable output of all the applications tested.

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Start with a highly-evolved user interface for maximum productivity, then dive into the powerful features and functionality. You'll quickly discover how QuarkXPress 7 surpasses the competition in design, collaboration, and production.

Design
Control the transparency of text, images, frames, and tables independently, rather than applying transparency to an entire object at once.

Manage your images with in-the-layout image editing. Controls such as scaling, cropping, and rotation are managed by a built-in image engine. Globally set images for the correct resolution and dramatically reduce your print times.

Collaboration
Enable multiple users to collaborate on a single design at the same time from anywhere on the planet. QuarkXPress 7 is the only design and page layout software that offers the revolutionary Composition Zones technology.

Synchronize your text and graphics instantly throughout your entire project with the shared content capabilities in QuarkXPress 7. Edit an image, correct a typo, change a font, or reshape a box in one layout and watch the changes update everywhere - an impressive feature for increased consistency and decreased errors.

Production
Define styles, colors, printing specifications, and more before designers have even started on a layout. Quark Job Jackets technology uses industry-standard Job Definition Format (JDF) files to ensure a print job adheres to exact specifications from the beginning of the creative process through output.

Establish your advanced color management settings globally, removing the responsibility from the individual designer. Print providers can send a Job Jackets file with embedded color settings, allowing for true, on-screen proofing for your workflow.

Designers, publishers, and printers around the world are taking advantage of the powerful new QuarkXPress 7. And they're not being shy about the experience.

Features:

• Smart transparency
• Revolutionary Composition Zones
• Quark Job Jackets
• In-the-layout image editing
• Superior palette controls
• Versatile typography with OpenType and Unicode
• Shared content
• Advanced color management
• Easy PDF/X production
• Multi-channel rich-content publishing

QuarkXPress 7.3 offers default output styles and improved performance

• Default PDF Output Styles: Preconfigured options for PDF output include
  • Press -- High Quality / High Resolution
  • Print -- Medium Quality / Medium Resolution
  • Screen -- Medium Quality / Low Resolution
  • Screen -- Low Quality/Low Resolution
  • PDF/X-1a:2001
    
  • PDF/X-3:2002
• Additional supplemental language support: Users can now take advantage of localized user interfaces for European Portuguese, Russian, Finnish, Croatian, and Hungarian. Hyphenation and spelling support has been added for Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian,Estonian, Icelandic, and Slovak.
• Increased performance and stability: Users will see improved performance when
  • Working with text-heavy and long documents
  • Saving documents locally and on network drives
  • Outputting documents that contain drop shadows
  • Outputting multiple copies or specific ranges of pages
    
  • Checking spelling

System Requirements:

Mac OS

• Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or Later
• G5 or faster PowerPC -- based processor or Mac Intel-based processor (G4 minimum)
• CD-ROM drive for installation
• 1GB of available RAM recommended (256MB minimum)
• 950MB of available hard disk space for installation of QuarkXPress 7 or QuarkXPress Passport 7
  

Windows

• Microsoft Windows XP (service pack 2) or Windows Vista
• CD-ROM drive for installation
  
• 1GB of available RAM recommended (256MB minimum on Windows XP, 512MB minimum on Windows Vista)
• 450MB of available hard disk space for installation

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.