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Industry experts are calling QuarkXPress 7 one of Quark's most significant upgrades ever. With more than 160 new features and enhancements, QuarkXPress 7 cements Quark's tradition of innovation by enabling a new way of working that focuses on the layout, design, and production environments as a whole rather than as separate processes.
With new features ranging from transparency and Composition Zones to enhanced PDF creation and print output, QuarkXPress 7 combines design freedom, unparalleled collaboration, and support for multi-channel communication in a single software tool.
Features include:
Smart transparency
Use the precise controls in QuarkXPress® 7 to set the transparency of a frame, background, or a single character at the color level with complete creative freedom — and without employing time-consuming item-based workarounds or depending on third-party applications or XTensions® software.
Quark Job Jackets technology
QuarkXPress 7 combines great design with nearly error-free production through Job Jackets. Designs are no longer in danger of being trapped on screen or altered at the last minute due to production requirements. Based on the JDF standard, Job Jackets help ensure that a print job adheres to specifications from the beginning of the creative process to output.
Job Jackets help enforce job specifications by linking projects to synchronized, dynamically updateable design specifications that include everything from style sheets and colors to page size and count.
Quark Job Jackets go beyond preflighting. With this technology, you can check a file for consistency and create new files that automatically comply with a user's needs. Job Jackets can be updated on the fly with changes made by art directors, color management specialists, and output professionals for a reliable, automated workflow.
Composition Zones technology
QuarkXPress 7 brings unprecedented live collaboration to the desktop. With Composition Zones, more than one person can work on a single layout at the same time. You can define a portion of a page, a whole page, or even an entire layout as a Composition Zones piece, and then export that piece as a separate project file. Other users can then work on their zone as if it were a regular QuarkXPress layout. The original layout is automatically updated when the file is saved. This live peer-to-peer collaboration lets large or small groups work the way they want — over a network, through e-mail messages, or instant messaging.
Enhanced Measurements palette
QuarkXPress 7 has the most streamlined interface of any layout tool on the market. The Measurements palette has been enhanced to include almost all the core design functionality in an easy-to-access palette. You can also group other palettes and save preferred palette configurations.
Image-handling enhancements
QuarkXPress 7 provides more control over images than any other application and easily integrates with industry-standard industry file formats such as native Adobe Photoshop (.psd) images.
Quark Vista XTensions
This software, included with QuarkXPress, adds industrial strength image-editing effects to QuarkXPress. You can create special effects and correct images with adjustments to brightness/contrast, color balance, and hue/saturation. This feature manages color automatically, and you can use it to soften image masks for perfect compositing of images and background layouts. QuarkVista enhancements continue to expand your capability to edit images within the context of a QuarkXPress layout rather than in another application.
Use alpha masks to create eye-catching, graphically sophisticated effects without leaving QuarkXPress. That means less time spent switching back and forth between QuarkXPress and an image-editing application.
OpenType and Unicode
With support for OpenType and Unicode®, QuarkXPress 7 users can apply advanced ligatures, alternate characters, and extended character sets easily and reliably for international documents and high-end typographic effects.
PDF/X, JDF, and PPML: New output formats
Gain the accuracy of a start-to-finish PDF/X workflow for the promise of a problem-free, print deliverable hand off. Rules can be built to check for PDF/X workflow from the beginning of the design process. QuarkXPress 7 guides users on compliance by supporting PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 with full reporting based on industry-standard certification libraries. QuarkXPress 7 also supports standardized personalization and one-to-one marketing through PPML. You can merge multiple XML records into richly formatted output with customizable settings for multiple PPML-ready print devices. With built-in, dynamic support for JDF, QuarkXPress 7 goes beyond merely attaching a generic JDF ticket to a finished PDF; QuarkXPress 7 can actually create jobs from JDF-based Job Tickets so that they are ready for print from the start of the creative process.
QuarkXPress supports all of these formats and is designed to support new industry standards as they emerge.
Shared content
Synchronize text and pictures so that if changes are made in one place, the changes are reflected everywhere. Edit an image, correct a typo, change a font, or reshape a box in one layout and immediately changes ripple throughout the whole project. With Composition Zones, you can create design elements for use across multiple files or workstations, and automatic updates guarantee consistency. And with Job Jackets, you can create a single project definition, including colors, style sheets, and layout specifications, for use within a workgroup and across projects.
Color management
QuarkXPress 7 color management has been redefined. There are more advanced options than ever before, but Color Setups and Quark Job Jackets allow settings to be easily shared and automatically updated and maintained among all users.
QuarkXPress 7 has more PANTONE spot color libraries than any comparable software and can even control spot colors in Adobe Photoshop files. QuarkXPress 7 has smart transparency and color space options to allow spot colors to be accurately printed despite complex print and PDF workflows. Always-on color management, PostScript Level 3 in-RIP color management support, and an integrated GretagMacbeth color engine with support for black point compensation are just some of the features that move QuarkXPress color management support to the head of the pack.
Tables enhancements
In QuarkXPress 7, table features have been enhanced to support splitting tables, running headers and footers, and transparency controls that extend to individual cells and borders. With the QuarkXPress 7 tables features, you can easily combine text and graphics and benefit from tight integration with Microsoft Excel for both design- and content-driven grids.
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