Quark Inc. announced today the release and availability of QuarkXPress 7, the newest upgrade to its flagship product, QuarkXPress. Debuting worldwide today, the QuarkXPress 7 software has already been praised for new and innovative features that promote better design, faster production, and more efficient collaboration — transforming the business of creative communications.
This upgrade combines new and enhanced design features with multi-channel publishing, collaboration, and job-driven workflow capabilities to deliver faster creative development for print and Web publishing. Through Composition Zones, Job Jackets, transparency, OpenType, Unicode, and many other new features, QuarkXPress 7 makes it easier for creative professionals to work together, optimize design, and minimize production errors. QuarkXPress 7 enables efficient and consistent desktop design, collaboration, and production.
“Our research shows that end-user experience and positive impact on workflow are two of the biggest factors in making technology investments,” according to Mike Maziarka, director at InfoTrends, the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the document solutions industry. “QuarkXPress 7 directly addresses how to work more efficiently with a product that is world renowned, thereby raising the bar in the desktop publishing industry, and will be warmly welcomed by new and established customers alike. This robust product release highlights Quark’s commitment to the market and to its customers as Quark continues to contribute to the evolution of publishing.”
“We are thrilled to release QuarkXPress 7,” said Jürgen Kurz, Quark senior vice president, desktop products, in the press release. “This latest version introduces forward-thinking concepts and capabilities in response to evolving market needs and customer feedback. Based on the early response we’ve heard from customers and the critical acclaim QuarkXPress 7 has received from leaders in the industry, we believe QuarkXPress 7 will revolutionize the way creative professionals work.”
QuarkXPress 7 is shipping now and is available through Quark resellers and partners worldwide as well as the Quark online store.
More information about QuarkXPress 7: http://www.quark.com/sales/desktop
QuarkXPress 7 will be featured in upcoming road shows, scheduled to tour North America and Europe stopping in seven cities on each continent. To learn more about the QuarkXPress 7 road shows in North America, visit http://www.quark.com/7tour
“Although the company had begun testing a native version for Intel Macs earlier this year, the current shipping version runs under the Rosetta emulations environment–with a Universal Binary patch expected later this year,” MacNN reports. Full report here.
[UPDATE: 10:31am EDT: Updated Universal Binary information with link to MacNN report.]
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Still looks like Quark 3 (the first version I started using)
Still doesn’t come close to the power of InDesign CS2.
No thanks Quark.
How does that song go again?
“Too much, too little, too late, to try again with you…”
and the rest of you should wait, as usual, until the 7.1 release.
Holy crap! Quark beat adobe to the Universal Binary finish line? How did this happen?
too little, too late.
InDesign is what I have been using for the past 3+ years.
Quark I really did like quark, but that was 10 years ago – their technology hasn’t gotten beeter with the times.
“I really did like quark, but that was 10 years ago”
Yep, they were the only game in town back then.
Well no, there was PageMaker, but Quark was the clear winner in that fight. Unfortunately, their software didn’t evolve. Quark 6.5 looks, acts, and behaves the same as Quark 4 did. It also still feels clunky and slow. It will never compete with InDesign like that.
can’t wait to try it out. The print industry in Toronto still use QuarkXpress alot more than Indesign. We also use Indesign to a much lessor extent.
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you know something is really wrong when Quark releases native software (UB) for OSX before Adobe does. Damn do I wish that there would be more competition to Photoshop and Illustrator. LivePicture – gone, Freehand – gone. And now we’re left with one dinosaur with no more fresh ideas and shite lame excuses. What a great future.
Quark 7 sucks – very slow on my iMac core duo, and it is supposed to be a UB. InDesign is way better. Shame, I used QXP 3.11 for many years. It was the best at the time. Times have changed.
absolutely. The only reason I don’t buy a 17 mbPro is the lack of native software. BTW, does anyone know if Freehand still works on an Intel seup?
quark is the microsuck of the professional prepress software industry.
their customer support has always been ass-tastic, and they gouged the hell out of their products over the years, when they knew they were the only game in town.
they can go fall off of a cliff for all i care, because their software and company sucks…
Quark is far superior to InDesign, but I am forced to use InDesign at work because it was cheaper to purchase the creative suite.
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Given the choice between a Universal Quark 7 or a Rosetta-d InDesign CS2 running on my MacBook Pro, I’d take InDesign every time.
Lay off Adobe. If Apple still hasn’t released a Universal Binary for Filemaker, then should we expect better of Adobe? I’ll answer that: No.
I’m waiting for 7.0.1. There still is so many bugs.
I found four bugs in the Pref pane. One crashes XPress 7 for Mac.
thumbs down for Quark.
How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
I’ll boil it down to one word MTropolis. Anyone remember that one? It was a multimedia application – like Director – but much better. Quark bought it and just killed it. WTF?! Why???
That is a major reason I HATE Quark (and because XPress sucks).
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Adobe is playing with fire here however. Think of the shops that were almost going to go with InDesign. Now they probably won’t. Shame.
FSCK ADOBE
They had plenty of enough advanced knowledge to get a UB version out.
Now they are complaining like this: “Oh we have to switch from Codewarrior to X-Code and we just don’t have the talent like we did when PS was created”
Photoshop hasn’t had a remake in ages, they just kept adding onto the same old codebase, jacking us for another upgrade and then installing a DRM scheme that “phones home” so darn much that poor college students can’t get free copy and learn on it to get a job.
Then the greatest insult to us Mac users is when in their paperwork, they actually suggested people buy a PC to run thier software. They fully intended to leave the Mac platform.
Now they got to rewrite all their code and bitching about it. They would have rather seen the Mac die. They like Windows because they can install their DRM schemes deep in the OS and take over their boxes. They could have standardized on one platform, with one version and reduced costs and reaped immense profit because they wouldn’t have needed to innovate.
Not so on a Mac, so we have to put up with a OS level root kit DRM scheme that requires installing while in “Safe Mode” in order to work properly. Breaking everything else in the process, including Mac OS X.
Oh yes, Adobe is high on my shitlist, I welcome the competition from Quark even though Quark is just as bad with their DRM schemes too.
Whup-de-fricken-do. Another Quark to give me headaches. I wonder if this version will allow hi-res previews or is this another update where the plug-in for that doesn’t work?
Hate Quark. It used to be the best. Now… it’s barely a step up from Publisher!
ADOBE is directly responsible for delaying the PowerMacTel Quad release.
I kid you not. Steve Jobs is furious with Adobe and is seriously considering producing their own Photoshop package.
After all Apple is a software company too and a darn good one.
I think Adobe is just stringing Apple along for the ride.
“Oh we are working on it” Yea RIGHT!
I want my PowerMactel Quad.
Ya’ll can’t handle the truth!!
MDN UPDATE: “Although the company had begun testing a native version for Intel Macs earlier this year, the current shipping version runs under the Rosetta emulations environment–with a Universal Binary patch expected later this year,” MacNN reports.
Well ok, Adobe is off the hook for now.
I retract my previous post.
For some reason Quark has always seemed to me tediously complex and underwhelming in terms of features. Of course if you are an extension addict, Quark might be your ticket. But for those of us without such special needs, Adobe has always seemed the more productive platform. My only grief with Adobe is that they have drifted from their creative, innovative vision, and now seem to be floundering in wanting to make “corporate-friendly” (i.e., Microsoft-like) applications bloated with esoteric functionality and gimmicks that their most loyal users do not need.
Hey BoomBoom,
How can you blame Adobe for Apple not having Intel-based PowerMacs yet? I’m not a fan of Adobe, but come on. Apple will come out with a Intel based PowerMac when Intel has a chip available. The core duo in the MacBooks and iMacs are not for PowerMacs. The processors that WILL go in the PowerMacs will be out in August or September. Expect to see PowerMacs then.
Its all about food. we need food to survive.
not stocks.
F*ck stocks.
I am selling my apple shares to buy some good tomatoes to make a salad.
One Quark, Two Quark, Suck Quark, Die Quark