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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firstly bruce chizen is a dickhead. plain and simple.
hes a sales guy who really has no idea about design or innovation. he only cares about profit margins, and if he had it his way, he would love to have macs gone.
steve jobs wont forget that bullshit sly comment chizen made when apple debuted the move to Intel, chizen said b4 walking off ‘what took you so long’ directed to steve.
Now how f**kin long is adobe taking to get photoshop UB?
Whats taking you so long chizen?, …knob.
even though i think apple has to concentrate on hardware and operating systems, i so agree that apple should continue on it path to create pro level software. i wouldnt use adobe if i had a viable alternative, basically if apple builds it, ill buy it.
the best product adobe has is dreamweaver.
illustrator and photoshop are soo bloated these days.
In the great history of desktop layout software, Quark will be remembered as a company that had a great product, but the worst service in the busness and only single user pricing. In business, there are three things businesses try to accomplish: quality, service and price. Most companies know that only two are possible. In Quark’s case, 1 of 3 made it easy for users to say “To hell with them. I’m switching to InDesign.”
Quark…. rings a bell…
O, wasn’t he on Star Trek or something?
I’m a long time Quark user. I switched to InDesign a few months back because a client forced me to.
God how I thank that client! Quark really does feel like ten year old tech compared.
I had no idea how much more productive I’d be working with the integration of AI and PS with InDesign. It feels so backward when I have to work with Quark now.
we believe QuarkXPress 7 will revolutionize the way creative professionals work
By encouraging them to switch to InDesign.
I bet half of you people haven’t even used Quark (if you have don’t respond) yet you’re bitching about a quality product.
Quark does 3 things better than Indesign by far and thats pagination, pagination, pagination.
Plus better colour management when its sent to task at the printers.
CrackedButter,
Pagination is FAR superior in InDesign, I can’t believe you just made that statement!
Colour management is perfect in InDesign, again it’s light years ahead of Quark – as long as you output a PDF. If you are still Collecting your files for output, find another printer who supports PDF files.