QuarkXPress 9

QuarkXPress is design software that lets anyone create and publish rich, compelling materials for print, the Web, e-readers, tablets, and other digital media in one easy-to-use tool — no ­coding or programming required.

Print Design & Publishing

The Best Professional Print Design Software Available
Over the past 25 years, millions of designers have used QuarkXPress® to produce advertising, brochures, magazines, books, catalogs, newspapers, and more. Why? Because QuarkXPress offers the ultimate in creativity, design control, and professional print output.

Marketing Materials

• Brochures
• Advertising
• Posters
• Direct Marketing
• Postcards
• Collateral
• Packaging

Print Publications

• Books and User Guides
• Catalogs and Circulars
• Directories and Yearbooks
• Financial Reports
• Magazines
• Newspapers

Spectacular Print Design
QuarkXPress lets you turn your ideas into reality. It gives you precise control over text, images, shapes, color, and opacity, and it’s compatible with a broad range of file formats. No design is too simple or too complex — and no page layout software gives you more control over design.

Professional Print Output
Great design, of course, is only half of the equation. The other half is output; the final printed piece has to match what’s on the screen. To make sure that happens, QuarkXPress provides soft proofing features, comprehensive color management, and support for international color standards. QuarkXPress also includes a built-in preflighting feature that can identify potential output issues early in the design process. When your layout is ready to go, easy-to-use presets for print-ready PDFs make sure output will go without a hitch.

Digital Design & Publishing

Use a Single Tool to Create and Publish Richly Designed, Interactive Content for the Web, eBooks, Smartphones, the iPad, and More

Why spend the time and money to buy and learn a whole suite of applications, when you can create beautiful, functional digital designs and publications with a single tool? Only QuarkXPress® delivers a complete set of intelligent cross-media design and export features in a single application.

With QuarkXPress:

• Print designers are right at home with digital publishing, interactive content, and Web content
• You can easily convert content from print to digital format
• You can synchronize content between print layouts, digital projects, and designs for different tablet orientations
• You can share color definitions, style sheets, and other resources between different types of layouts
• You only have to learn one skill set to design for multiple media — so you’re more productive, faster

New in QuarkXPress 9

Boost your productivity, drive automated design, and go digital with QuarkXPress 9 — the most reliable print design and publishing tool that is now the easiest, most powerful tool for digital design and publishing.

QuarkXPress 9 opens a whole new world of digital design and publishing to you in one tool, with one familiar interface — at one reasonable price — without requiring coding or programming.

Digital Publishing

Create the Ultimate Mobile Experience
Create your own iPad apps with App Studio for QuarkXPress, then publish and control your own interactive publications.

Bring Rich, Interactive Design to the eBook Marketplace
Create interactive content for the Blio® eReader — the most accessible and versatile e-reader on the market. Then sell it through the Blio online bookstore.

Tap Into the Exploding eBook Market
Convert your QuarkXPress layouts into standardized eBooks for the iPad, Sony® Reader, NOOK®, and more.

Features:

With QuarkXPress, you can communicate in all the ways you need to — and always look professional— in print and digital media, all in a single tool.

Easy to Use

QuarkXPress is a powerful and full-featured tool that makes it easy to develop your ideas into gorgeous layouts.

Take Advantage of a Smart Workspace
We developed QuarkXPress with you in mind. The streamlined, modern, intuitive interface of QuarkXPress provides a workspace that lets you achieve your design and layout goals as effortlessly as possible.

Switch Between Palette Configurations
You can have a different set and arrangement of palettes for each type of work you do — and you can switch between them at the press of a button.

Find the Right Tool for the Job
One of the most time-consuming aspects of design and production is getting to the right tool at the right time. QuarkXPress minimizes your trips to the Tools palette by putting the right tools at your fingertips.

Access Frequently Used Design Elements with Libraries
Is there a logo, a design, a run of text you use all the time? Put them in a library — then the next time you need it, you can just drag a copy of it from the library to the page.

View Your Layouts in Several Different Ways at the Same Time
To tweak details, you have to zoom in. To get the big picture, you have to zoom out. QuarkXPress lets you do both at the same time. With the Split View feature, you can divide a window into separate views of the same layout, and each view acts like a separate window, with its own magnification. You can even divide views across multiple monitors.

Use the Same Skills and Tools to Create Print, Web, Interactive, and Digital Publications
QuarkXPress provides a toolset that lets you design and publish for a variety of output formats — including the Web, smartphones, e-readers, and tablets — without having to learn a different skill set for each, learn to write code or program, or purchase additional software applications.

Boost Productivity with Keyboard Commands
Years of experience have expanded and honed the set of keyboard shortcuts in QuarkXPress to the point where you can work so fast that people watching you can’t keep up with what you’re doing.

Drag and Drop Content Directly into Your Layout
QuarkXPress lets you drag text and picture files onto the page from your desktop. You don’t even have to draw a box; just drag it in and you’re done. You can also drag content to and from other applications, such as Adobe® Bridge and iPhoto®.

Powerful Design Tools

QuarkXPress provides an arsenal of design tools that let you turn even the most elaborate visions into reality.

Table Creation
The QuarkXPress Tables feature lets you easily and beautifully present complex data for annual reports, product spec sheets, and other materials. You can create table content manually in QuarkXPress, or you can import content into a table by linking to an Excel® file. If you update a linked Excel file, the QuarkXPress document can be automatically updated to reflect the changes.

Picture Effects and Filters
The Picture Effects palette lets you apply nondestructive adjustments to pictures right there in the layout. You can apply, combine, reorder, and tweak effects such as Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Blur, Emboss, and Diffuse — without having to launch an image-editing application, resave, and re-import.

Space/Align and Distribution
The Space/Align tab of the Measurements palette provides a set of easy-to-use buttons that make it easy for you to align and distribute items on a page or spread. Intuitive button icons provide a visual cue of what each of the functions does.

Color Blends
Fill a box with a blend that fades gradually from one color into another, or from one color into transparency. Choose from six different blend shapes and precisely control the angle of each blend.

Easily Create and Apply Shapes to Any Content
You can create unique shapes right there in the layout with the Bézier Pen tools or the ShapeMaker feature. Decorate any box with color, blends, and frames — then fill it with any type of content.

Guides and Grids
Guides and grids let you precisely control how items and text align in a layout — and QuarkXPress gives you precise control over both, with two dedicated palettes.

Full Resolution Preview
You can choose whether to display imported images in full resolution for detail work, or as low-resolution previews for speed and efficiency.

Layers
You can put different types of items on different lockable layers, then easily hide or show those layers — both on the screen and at output.

Super Step and Repeat
Super Step and Repeat lets you duplicate items and adjust the angle, shade, scale, and skew of the copies. If you scale items, you can choose whether to scale their contents.

Automatic Text Runaround
QuarkXPress offers several ways to run text around an item or image: You can use embedded paths, draw your own runaround paths, or just let QuarkXPress take care of it automatically.

Intelligent Scaling
The Scale palette lets you precisely scale items, pages, and even entire layouts, with total control over which aspects of the content are scaled. If you scale up a multi-column text box, for example, you can control whether you want to scale up its text, insets, gutters, and frame. You can scale to an exact size, or by a specific percentage.

Integration with other Applications

No application is an island. That’s why QuarkXPress® was designed from the beginning to work with files in a wide variety of formats.

Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel
QuarkXPress lets you import data from Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets, make it beautiful, and then update the content from the Excel file without losing any formatting.

Import Native Adobe Illustrator Files
Import Adobe® Illustrator® (.ai) files directly into a layout — without having to export them as EPS or PDF files first. That means one less step when you’re building layouts, one less file to keep track of, and less time and effort when you need to update.

Import XML and Publish Personalized Marketing Materials
With the XML Import feature, you can use QuarkXPress to automatically generate professional-­quality personalized marketing materials in a snap.

Import, Export, and Edit Text
QuarkXPress makes it easy to import, export, and edit text in a wide variety of formats. You can drag and drop text files into a layout and use Story Editor view for maximum readability.

Import and Adjust Almost Any Image File
Not only does QuarkXPress let you import and color-manage almost any image file, it lets you edit almost any image file, right there in the layout. Adjust levels, curves, brightness/contrast, and color balance; apply filters to blur, sharpen, add noise, and more. You can even export edited images.

Digital Publishing: Web, SWF (Flash®), Smartphones, E-readers, and Tablets

QuarkXPress provides a toolset that lets you design and publish for a variety of output formats — including the Web, smartphones, e-readers, and tablets — without having to learn a different skill set for each, learn to write code or program, or purchase additional software applications.

All Purpose

Create Scripted Behaviors - Combine actions into powerful scripts
Add Pop-up Windows - Easily create custom windows for your interactive media
Layout Spaces - Efficiently store and synchronize layouts for multiple media
Synchronized Content - Synchronize text, pictures, and formatting automatically

Learn Once for Multiple Channels
QuarkXPress provides a toolset that lets you design and publish for a variety of output formats — including the Web, smartphones, e-readers, and tablets — without having to learn a different skill set for each, learn to write code or program, or purchase additional software applications.

Automatic Image Format Conversion
Use One Set of Image Files for Cross-media Design. With QuarkXPress’ automatic image conversion feature, you can use the same image files when designing for Web, interactive, and digital media that you use when designing for print. QuarkXPress automatically converts image files into a format suitable for each medium — so if you’re using PSD, EPS, or TIFF files, you don’t have to manually convert them to PNG for use on an iPad. When exporting for the Web, you can even choose which image file format you want QuarkXPress to use.

Convert Print to Digital Publishing Formats (Web, SWF/Flash, e-books)
With QuarkXPress, you don’t have to recreate a print project from scratch for the Web, SWF (Flash), e-books, and digital devices such as the iPad — you can simply convert it. And once you’ve converted it, you can customize it for the new medium with page transitions, videos, sounds, slideshows, and more. Best of all, you can do all of this with the same set of tools, instead of having to learn a whole new application for each medium you want to take advantage of. With QuarkXPress, you can preserve your brand and always look professional, in print and in electronic media, all in a single tool.

Interactive SWF (Flash) Design

Create Flash Animations - Create SWF (Flash) animations, no coding required
Add Video, Audio, and SWF (Flash) - Easily enrich interactive layouts with multimedia files
Create Custom Buttons - Easily create simple and multi-state buttons

Include Page and Object Transitions
Instead of just appearing and disappearing, you can make pages and objects fade, curtain, and zoom into and out of existence — with complete control over transition duration.

Single-click Export of HTML and SWF (Flash)
QuarkXPress pages lets you design and export HTML pages that include SWF (Flash) blocks using the same tools you use to design print output.

Web

Add Navigation Menus to Your Web Pages and Interactive Layouts
You can use a simple dialog box to build navigation menus that help your users get around in your Web and SWF (Flash) projects

Add Hyperlinks and Anchors
QuarkXPress lets you create automatically hyperlinked tables of contents, text hyperlinks, and image-based hyperlinks, then include them in your exported Web pages and PDFs. Hyperlinks can point to external URLs or to internal anchors.

Add Meta Tag Sets
You can make your exported Web pages more visible to search engines by including meta tag sets. QuarkXPress makes it easy to build meta tag sets and then use them in multiple Web projects.

Build HTML Forms — No Coding Required
You can build a form in a Web page by simply drawing the fields, menus, and buttons you want in that form. Configuring form elements is equally simple, with fields and drop-down menus — no coding required.

Export HTML Web Pages
The powerful tools in QuarkXPress aren’t just for print. You can also use them to create gorgeous Web pages — complete with hyperlinks, menus, forms, image maps, and rollovers — while maintaining complete control over the look of the exported page.

Text-to-image Conversion
Preserve Fonts and Typography on the Web. When you export to HTML from QuarkXPress, you can stay searchable by exporting text as text, or preserve fonts and formatting by converting text to images. Even better, you can make this decision on a box-by-box basis, and choose what image format to use for each box. You can choose GIF, JPG, PNG — even SWF (Flash), if you want a vector-based format.

Use Advanced Interactive Functions
In addition to allowing you to create scripted behaviors without writing scripts, QuarkXPress lets you build more sophisticated interactivity into a project with a feature called Expressions. With expressions, you can author intelligent behaviors in a programming-like environment. That means you can create full-fledged tests, games, and other truly interactive content.

Plus:

• Create Web overlays
• Video conversion to FLV
• Embeded image rollovers
• Add image maps

Precision Typography

Typography is an art form, and QuarkXPress® provides the tools you need to create powerful works of typographical art.

If you’re a perfectionist, QuarkXPress provides all of the tools you need to reach perfection.

If you’re not, QuarkXPress provides presets and default behaviors that make your work look professional even when you’re not paying attention to the details.

Linkster - Unlink and Relink Text Boxes without Overflow
Conditional Styles - Automatically Style Content Based on Powerful Styling Rules
Bullets and Numbering - Take Command of Lists and Outlines
Story Editor - Concentrate On Text Without the Distraction of Layout
Hanging Characters - Create Perfectly Aligned Margins
Page Grids and Grid Styles - Maintain Total Control Over Text and Object Alignment
Style Sheets - Control and Update Text Style with Style Sheets
East Asian Typography - QuarkXPress lets layout artists work with East Asian typographical concepts

Easily Access Any Character
The Glyphs palette provides instant visual access to any character in any font, including modern Unicode® and OpenType® fonts. You can insert any character into text by double-clicking or click-and-dragging. You can even save favorite characters for easy access.

Convert Text to Picture and Text Boxes
In QuarkXPress, you can select text — just a few characters, or even an entire paragraph — and convert it into boxes with a single command. Then you can fill the boxes with colors, an image, or even text.

Run Text Along a Complex Path
QuarkXPress lets you create any shape you can imagine with industry-standard Bézier tools — and then run text along that shape, with full typographic control.

Create Custom Kerning Pairs and Tracking Curves
You can use the automatic kerning table built into a font, or override it with your own kerning pair values. You can also create custom tracking curves that adjust the spacing between characters depending on the point size of the text.

Easily Access Any Special Character
QuarkXPress gives you multiple ways to insert special characters. You can use a Glyphs palette to view all of the characters in any font, and easily insert them into a document. You can use a menu item to insert invisible characters and other types of special characters. And QuarkXPress provides keyboard shortcuts for the most-often-used special characters.

Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in a Snap
Do you need to fill a box with text just to see what the final layout will look like when the content is ready? QuarkXPress makes it easy with the Jabber command.

Create Custom H&J Specifications
The H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) feature lets you completely control the way words hyphenate (or prevent them from hyphenating at all). The H&J feature also provides complete control over the way text is justified. You can create multiple H&J settings and apply them to different paragraphs in the same text.

Take Advantage of Unicode and OpenType
With full support for Unicode and OpenType, QuarkXPress gives you easy access to swash characters, discretionary ligatures, alternate versions of characters, ordinals, alternate metrics, and many other font features.

Deal Intelligently with Missing Fonts
The Font Fallback feature ensures that if a font is missing, a suitable alternate font is substituted — so instead of seeing boxes or question marks, you see characters.

Create Custom Underline Styles
You can create your own underline styles for text, with different widths, colors, shades, and offsets.

Make an Impression with Professional Text Formatting
QuarkXPress brought high-end typography to the desktop over two decades ago —and since then, it’s only been getting better. With QuarkXPress, you can make any typographical dream into a reality.

Apply Kerning and Tracking
The kerning and tracking features in QuarkXPress let you achieve perfect spacing between character pairs — automatically or manually, it’s up to you — and copyfit text by manipulating the space between every character in a word, line, or paragraph.

Plus:

• Font mapping
• Hyphenation exceptions
• Text find/change
• Hot-swappable user interface languages
• Custom text runaround
• Spellchecking and hyphenation in 38+ languages

Layout Automation

QuarkXPress not only provides you with world-class layout tools — it provides you with automation tools that allow you to create top-end design quickly and efficiently.

ImageGrid - Import and Automatically Build Grids of Images
Conditional Styles - Automatically Style Content Based on Powerful Styling Rules
Callouts - Boxes and Groups Move Automatically With Your Text
Job Jackets - Share and Synchronize Resources and Catch Errors Before They Occur
Synchronized Content - Synchronize Text, Pictures, and Formatting Automatically
Books - Synchronize Assets Across Multiple Chapters
Lists - Create Tables of Contents, Lists of Figures, and More
Style Sheets - Speed Formatting with Style Sheets

Item Find/Change
The Item Find/Change feature lets you find and replace a huge variety of item attributes, including box characteristics, box colors, frame characteristics, line attributes, picture attributes, text attributes, and drop-shadow attributes. You can even search for one attribute (such as box size), and then wherever it’s found, change a different attribute (such as the number of columns).

Item Styles
Item styles are like style sheets for items. An item style is a named package of formatting options for items. For example, you can define an item style named “Sidebar” that describes a box of a particular size and color with a particular frame, text inset, vertical alignment, and runaround — then assign that item style to a box by clicking the item style in a palette or pressing a custom keyboard command.

Speed Layout with Master Pages
The Master Pages feature lets you create a “template” for a page, then use that template throughout a layout. You can have multiple master pages per layout — for example, one for the cover, one for the TOC, and one for body pages. If you update a master page, all of the pages that use it get updated automatically. Combine shared content and you can even create hierarchical master pages.

AppleScript
AppleScript lets you control applications such as QuarkXPress with scripts. AppleScript is an intuitive,
easy-to-learn scripting language that has been built into Mac OS® for more than 15 years.

Import XML into QuarkXPress and Publish Personalized Marketing Materials
With the XML Import feature, you can use QuarkXPress to automatically generate professional-quality personalized marketing materials in a snap.

Plus:

• Indexes

• Automatic page numbering

Reliable Print Output

The most gorgeous print layout in the world is no good if you can’t print it. With over two decades of experience as the premiere tool for creating high-quality printed output, QuarkXPress® has the tools you need to make sure that your layouts look the way you design them, both on the screen and on the press, without time-consuming troubleshooting and tweaking.

Soft Proofing
With ICC profiles and a powerful color-management engine, QuarkXPress can display “soft” previews of what a layout will look like when it is printed to a variety of different output devices — so you can see how a document will look when output in grayscale, or when converted from spot color to CMYK.

Spot Inks (Including PANTONE Matching System)
QuarkXPress provides you with a full suite of spot-color models from which to choose, including libraries from TRUMATCH, FOCOLTONE®, DIC®, TOYO®, and more than a dozen different PANTONE® libraries, including PANTONE colors such as the new Goe and GoeBridge.

Bleed and Registration Marks
Accurately control and specify page size, bleeds, and color alignment with trim, registration, and bleed marks that can be included in EPS, PDF, and print output.

Configurable PDF Job Options
QuarkXPress takes some of the guesswork and complexity out of PDF generation by allowing you to package settings for marks, compression, color management, font embedding, metadata, and more into named Output Styles. That makes it easy to maintain 100% compliance with your output providers’ requirements, even if you use several different providers.

Reusable Output Styles
The Output Style lets you name and store groups of settings for print, EPS, and PDF output, so you don’t have to manually change output configurations when you switch between different output requirements. You can store settings for scale, color management, printers’ marks, fonts, bleed, transparency, OPI, and more.

Ensure Consistent Color with ICC Color Profiles
ICC color management makes it easy for you to maintain consistent, predictable color on the screen, during proofing, and on the press. You can even preview on the screen what a layout will look like on different output devices.

Collaboration

Composition Zones - Let Several People Work on the Same Layout Simultaneously
Job Jackets - Share and Synchronize Resources and Catch Errors Before They Occur

Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel
QuarkXPress lets you import data from Microsoft® Excel spreadsheets, make it beautiful, and then update the content from the Excel file without losing any formatting.

Shared Auxiliary Dictionaries
QuarkXPress makes it easy to supplement its powerful hyphenation and spell checking with your own custom sharable auxiliary dictionary.

Integration with QuarkCopyDesk
QuarkCopyDesk® lets content creators concentrate on design without worrying about layout.

System Requirements:

Software

• Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or 3), Windows Vista 1.0, or Windows 7
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Tested on Citrix

Hardware

• 2GB RAM (1GB minimum)
• 1GB hard disk space

Optional

• An Internet connection for activation
• DVD-ROM drive for installation from DVD (not required for installation from download)