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QuarkXPress - 6.5

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All Time:	(2.0)
Version 6.5:	(2.1)
Selected Version:	6.5
Release Date:	2004-11-01
License:	Update
Downloads (version 6.5):	22,243
Downloads (all versions):	138,706
Price:	$899.95

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Product Description:

Powerful yet easy-to-use program, QuarkXPress and QuarkXPress Passport are used by the world's leading designers and publishers to produce everything from newsletters, ads, and brochures to product packaging, catalogs, magazines, and newspapers. QuarkXPress is an integrated publishing package that combines expert type, layout, color, and graphics-handling features with professional illustration tools, word processing, and sophisticated prepress functions -- all in one application. Precise typography and layout tools give you an unparalleled design control and command over every aspect of your document, from conception to output.

What's new in this version:

Expand your Linotype library: For a limited time, registered QuarkXPress 6.5 users gain access to a font package with more than 40 OpenType fonts from Linotype. And if you are prompted with a "Missing font" message, you can click the "Buy missing font" button and buy additional fonts from Linotype at a special price for registered users.
Manipulate images right in QuarkXPress 6.5 with powerful QuarkVista XTensions® software and forget about expensive image editing software.
Import native Adobe® Photoshop documents (.psd files) into QuarkXPress and exploit the power of multi-layer Photoshop images without leaving QuarkXPress.
Place guides on a master pages pasteboard and display them automatically in your layout.
Group tables with other QuarkXPress items including other tables, picture boxes, and text boxes.
Customize printing features such as saving output settings for custom bleeds as print styles.
Simplify IT management with support for Citrix servers and run the application off a server instead of an individual users computer.
If you created a table in a layout, and set properties such as color, shade, text angle, and skew for cells of table column 1, then changed the content to picture content and ran an AppleScript, it returned junk. This issue has been resolved.
If you applied a bleed value to an EPS file by executing an AppleScript®, it did not produce the specified bleed value in the actual output. This issue has been resolved.
Mac OS 10.3.3 only: If you created a project with a couple of pages in it, made a picture box on the first page and another one on the second, grouped them, and ran an AppleScript to add reference to the boxes, it returned incorrect references and displayed alerts. This issue has been resolved.
If you imported an EPS file with a Pantone® ink into a picture box, converted the imported Pantone ink to a process color (Control+click the ink in the Colors palette and choose Convert to Process from the context menu), modified the EPS file, and updated the picture in the layout, it resulted in a new Pantone color name with an asterisk prefixed to it in the Colors palette. This issue has been resolved and now the color retains the name it had before the modification.
If you created a project, imported an XML file into it, saved it and then opened the project on a different operating system, dragging the elements of a DTD into a text box caused QuarkXPress to quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
If you created a project, imported elements from a DTD and an XML file saved on the same location into a text box, saved it and then tried to open it, it displayed an alert "Invalid document structure" and lost all XML file(content) information. This issue has been resolved.
In a layout, if you renamed an image, its status displayed as Missing in the Picture Usage dialog box; updating the image still displayed its status as Modified, instead of OK in the Picture Usage dialog box. This issue has been resolved.
Mac OS 10.3.3 only: If you imported an SCT,BMP,PICT or PNG image with a clipping path into a picture box, QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
If you imported an image with an embedded path into a picture box and applied an embedded path to it, deleting the applied embedded path caused QuarkXPress to quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
If you imported a picture into a picture box, saved the project in a specific location and then moved the picture file to the location of the project, it displayed the status of the picture as Missing(Utilities > Usage > Pictures). This issue has been resolved and QuarkXPress now locates the picture files that are in the same location as the project.
Mac OS 10.3 only: If you created two text boxes, one larger than the other, in a print layout, then anchored the smaller box in the larger one; and tried to synchronize text (Style > Synchronize Text ), QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
At times, QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly while opening legacy documents with layers. This issue has been resolved.
If you exported only selective layout pages as PDF, the anchors specified on the pages did not take the user to the destinations defined in the anchors. This issue has been resolved.
If you imported a PDF with rotated content into a layout, and rotated the same PDF to any degree, then exported it as a PDF, it did not get exported correctly and displayed an image that did not exist. This issue has been resolved.
If you created a PostScript file from a layout (File > Export > Layout as PDF) with the PDF preferences set to Create PostScript File for Later Distilling in the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress > Preferences > Application > PDF), a copy of the PostScript file was created in the "\jaws\temp" folder in addition to the specified folder for saving the PostScript file. This issue has been resolved and the PostScript file is now created only in the specified folder without creating a duplicate copy in "\jaws\temp" folder.
If you placed a cropped PDF file in the center of a picture box, it did not center properly. This issue has been resolved and the cropped PDF files center correctly in a picture box.
The name for a PDF file in the Preferences pane (Edit > Preferences) does not default to "Project: Layout.pdf". It remains "Layout.pdf".
If you imported an EPS file into a picture box with no font embedded, and the font is not available on the system, saving the layout as an EPS file still displayed the font as embedded in the EPS file. This issue has been resolved.
Mac OS 10.3.5 only: If you tried to print text from a layout using ITC Zapf Dingbats font, QuarkXPress displayed a PostScript alert. This issue has been resolved.
If you tried to print a layout with a cropped PDF file embedded as a picture, it caused the picture position to be printed incorrectly. This issue has been resolved.
If you tried to print a layout using a Xerox PPD (File > Print > Setup > Printer Description), QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
Mac OS 10.3.3 only: If you created a project with specific Czech characters using Helvetica CE, Geneva CE 9 or 10 point size and printed it to any PostScript printer, the spacing between the 9 and 10 point characters appeared different from other point sizes. Also, when printed, negative kerning was applied for all capital characters along with positive kerning for lowercase characters. These issues have been resolved.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 6.5:
Overall Rating:	(2.1)	Features:	(2.3)	Support:	(1.8)
Ease of Use:	(2.6)	Quality / Stability:	(2.0)	Price:	(1.5)

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Fair software, bad business practices - Version: 8.12, 10/17/2009 08:11PM PST

hkim

I have just tried the 8.2 version after having stayed with the 3.2 version for years and the current version is quite good in both GUI and features. I was able to import older documents without any problem as well. The only performance issues I experienced were with the way Xpress caches memory for images and other purposes. One really needs more than the recommended 1 Gig of installation space on their boot drive. There were other issues such as requiring one to install to the boot drive ONLY which is a strange imposition upon the user. So far I have found none of the horrible bugs that have haunted versions 4-7, thus Quark seems to finally be making headway in perfecting the glacially slow move to OSX. That is why I have used 3.2 up to now.

The real issue for users of today's Xpress IMHO, is the preditory pricing policy of Quark. Users in different countries pay different amounts for Xpress though it is the same software. This means that someone in Australia or Europe is forced to spend a good bit more money for the same software and this is poor judgement on the part of Quark. I note that Sibelius has tried the same model for their software and it and poor programming for OSX has driven away more than a few users. As noted by one other reviewer below, why pay so much for Xpress when for a little more one can update their complete Adobe suite!?

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The Quark Lobby on VersionTracker - Version: 8.12, 9/26/2009 01:45AM PST

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Clams McShrew

It has come to my attention that some reviewers in this forum may have undisclosed professional ties to Quark. There is nothing wrong with company affiliates posting comments. However to do so without mentioning this relationship is deceptive and arguably inappropriate.

The reviews in question may be coming from the same person, using aliases, or may represent a larger, more organized and concerted effort to influence this forum.

Normal, unaffiliated end-users may recognize the remarks in question. Simply ask yourself if the review you read appears to describe the application that you know of as Quark 8.x (barely improved since the old days) or if it seems to describe some other ideal, chimerical, essentially non-existent page-layout program that we all still wish for, but do not yet have.

Another clue to this deception, are reviewers who insist on attacking those of us who post sensible critical comments. This in itself should send up a Big Red 72 pt Helvetica Bold Flag.

There is no need to harass those of us with critical views of Quark. It's bad form. Some of us have been using this program, in all its dubious glory and imperfection, for better or worse, till death do us part, since 1987! Our views are relevant, and from a friendlier company, would be invited, valued and appreciated.

Re: AMAZING PROGRAM - Version: 8.12, 9/18/2009 07:00AM PST

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tmccain

>> Quark have come a LONG way!! this version brings me back to Quark from Adobe!

>> Try it out, everything Adobe has promised is in Quark already!

>> Great job Quark and glad to be back with you guyz.

You clearly must be drawing a paycheck from Quark because it hasn't come that far. Why would I spend $250 to upgrade my Quark when for a few hundred more I can upgrade my entire Adobe CS Suite? No thanks!