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QuarkXPress - 8.0

page layout and design for print and web

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All Time:	(2.0)
Version 8.0:	(1.9)
Selected Version:	8.0
Release Date:	2008-08-01
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 8.0):	1,895
Downloads (all versions):	138,704
Price:	$799.00

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Product Description:

It's the industry standard
More people use QuarkXPress for creative design and page layout than any other software in the world. Period. Millions of users are now discovering the power of the new QuarkXPress 7, the most important QuarkXPress upgrade ever.

All the bells and whistles
QuarkXPress 7 boasts 160 new, innovative features. Take control of transparency with total independence. Create visually stunning graphics from within QuarkXPress 7 â?? no need to switch to another application. Use the revolutionary Composition Zones functionality to collaborate with multiple users anywhere in the world on the same layout at the same time. Optimize your production workflows with new Job Jackets technology. Work faster with a streamlined user interface and dynamic design tools.

What's new in this version:

QuarkXPress 8 delivers superior design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout and includes new features such as built-in print, Web and Flash authoring tools, advanced typography control, and global publishing capabilities. QuarkXPress 8 also offers users an enhanced design experience so they can work faster and smarter by quickly and easily accessing the tools they need. The new, intuitive interface delivers updates that allow for more design with fewer clicks. For example:

Flash and Web Authoring Tools: Without any programming skills, designers and creative professionals can share print content on the Web and in Flash format without purchasing multiple applications or learning code.
Picture Content Tool: Allows users to grab, rotate, and scale images in real-time without typing in numbers or switching from tool to tool.
Item Tool and Text Content Tool: Smart behavior within these tools allows for less switching between tools, even for rotation and managing multiple items.
New Bzier Pen Tools: Draw illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bzier Pen tool.
Workspace Enhancements: Include new buttons for instant access to master pages and exporting to PDF, EPS, SWF, and HTML plus new split-view buttons, enhanced contextual menus, and customizable active pasteboards.
Measurements Palette: Further enhanced to make even more functions easily accessible, including new clickable controls for on-the-fly drop-shadow modification.
Drag-and-Drop: Drag text and pictures from the desktop, Adobe Bridge, iPhoto, or any other application that supports drag and drop. Alternatively, drag content from QuarkXPress to Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, and other applications for direct editing.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 8.0:
Overall Rating:	(1.9)	Features:	(2.2)	Support:	(2.2)
Ease of Use:	(2.2)	Quality / Stability:	(2.2)	Price:	(1.4)

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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!