Quark Inc. Announces QuarkXPress 7

Quark Inc. recently announced QuarkXPress 7 publishing software, promising to make desktop collaboration "simple, consistent, and efficient" through ‘composition zones,’ ‘Job Jackets,’ and other new and enhanced features.

‘Composition zones’ enables page layout artists, editors, and other creative professionals to work on the same page separately and view each other’s changes automatically, simultaneously. ‘Job Jackets’ lets workgroups share specifications across workstations. These approaches, the company says, are much faster than traditional linear workflows where contributors must wait for other team members to complete their work in a layout before they can work on their assignments. What’s more, they make for greater consistency.

Said Juergen Kurz, senior vice president of product development at Quark, "The enhanced graphics capabilities of QuarkXPress 7 make the design experience more satisfying than ever. With creativity flowing this naturally, creative professionals can work together more effectively, and QuarkXPress 7 makes parallel workflows a reality."

Professionals in the graphic arts industry, for example, will appreciate Job JacketsÂ’ ability to take advantage of existing networks and open file formats to create a truly effortless design and productivity environment. With Job JacketÂ’s open Job Definition Format (JDF), standard files include information about scanning, printing, binding, cutting, and even distribution, and can initiate processes in JDF-enabled automated systems via Job Messaging Format (JMF).

Add to that synchronized content, accurate color, flexible design, better tables, Unicode support, OpenType support, and a split pane work window and you understand why QuarkXPress software is among the most popular in the publishing industry.

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