QuarkXPress 9 Software for Mac & Windows

Easy to Use

Multiple Views

QuarkXPress lets you zoom in and out simultaneously. The Split View feature allows you to divide a window into separate views of the same layout and each view acts like a separate window with its own level of magnification. You can even divide views across multiple monitors

Streamlined, Modern, Intuitive Interface

The streamlined, modern, intuitive interface of QuarkXPress provides a workspace that lets you achieve your design and layout goals as effortlessly as possible

Libraries

Save commonly used elements such as a logo, design, or a run of text to the library and drag and drop them in your layout

Palette Sets

You can have different arrangements of palettes for each type of work you do and easily switch between them

Task-based Tools

QuarkXpress helps you find the tools you need quickly and easily by making them easily accessible

Powerful Design Tools

Table Creation

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

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 being 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

Picture Effects and Filters

The Picture Effects palette lets you apply nondestructive adjustments to photos from within the layout. Apply, combine, reorder and tweak effects such as Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Blur, Emboss, and Diffuse without needing 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

Easily Create and Apply Shapes to Any Content

Create unique shapes from within 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

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 blend shapes and precisely control the angle of each blend

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 as well

Automatic Text Runaround

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

Layers

This feature allows you to put different types of items on different lockable layers, then easily hide or show them on the screen and at output

Full Resolution Preview

Choose to display imported images in full resolution for detail work or as low-resolution previews for speed and efficiency

Guides and Grids

Guides and grids give you precise control over item and text alignment with two dedicated palettes

Clipping Paths and Alpha Masking

Seamlessly blend images into your layouts with clipping paths and masks

Illustration (Bézier/Pen) Tools

Pen tools and keyboard shortcuts make illustrating quick and easy

Transparency and Drop Shadows

Enables you to add depth to your layouts with transparency

Cloner

A smart, efficient way to clone design elements

ShapeMaker

Enables you to easily create unique shapes

Integration with other Applications

Import and Adjust Almost Any Image File

Not only does QuarkXPress let you import and color-manage most any image file, it also lets you edit it from within the layout. Adjust levels, curves, brightness/contrast and color balance as well as apply filters to blur, sharpen, add noise and more

Import Native Adobe Illustrator Files

Import Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files directly into a layout without first exporting them as EPS or PDF files. That means one less step when creating layouts, one less file to keep track of and less time and effort when you need to update

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 Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel

QuarkXPress lets you import data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, make an attractive presentation, then update the content from the Excel file without losing any formatting

Import XML and Publish Personalized Marketing Materials

The XML Import feature allows you to automatically generate professional-quality, personalized marketing materials

PSD Import

Import and manipulate Photoshop (PSD) documents

Add Video, Audio and SWF (Flash)

Enrich interactive layouts with multimedia files

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

Automatic Image Format Conversion

Use One Set of Image Files for Cross-media Design. With the 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 use 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. 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 this with the same set of tools, without having to learn a new application for each medium

Use Advanced Interactive Functions

In addition to allowing you to create scripted behaviors without writing scripts, QuarkXPress lets you build sophisticated interactivity into a project with a feature called Expressions. Expressions allows you to author intelligent behaviors in a programming-like environment. That means you can create tests, games and other interactive content

Text-to-image Conversion

When you export to HTML from QuarkXPress, you can stay searchable by exporting text as text or keep your fonts and formatting by converting the text to images. You can also make this decision on a box-by-box basis and choose which image format to use for each box. You can choose GIF, JPG, PNG or even SWF (Flash) if you want a vector-based format

Learn Once for Multiple Channels

QuarkXPress provides a toolset that allows you to design and publish for a variety of output formats including the internet, smartphones, e-readers and tablets without having to learn a different skill set for each or purchase additional software applications

Export HTML Web Pages

The powerful tools in QuarkXPress aren't just for print, you can also use them to create attractive web pages complete with hyperlinks, menus, forms, image maps, and rollovers while maintaining complete control over the look of the exported page

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. Then simply configure the form elements with fields and drop-down menus without knowing or writing a line of code

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

Include Page and Object Transitions

Instead of just appearing and disappearing, you can make pages and objects fade, curtain and zoom into and out with complete control over transition duration

Add Hyperlinks and Anchors

QuarkXPress lets you automatically create hyperlinked tables of contents, text and image-based hyperlinks, then include them in web pages and PDFs

App Studio

Create your own iPad apps using App Studio then publish and control your own interactive publications. App Studio is powered by Aquafadas

Single-click Export of HTML and SWF (Flash)

QuarkXPress lets you design and export HTML pages that include SWF (Flash) blocks using the same tools you use to design print output

Add Navigation Menus to Your Web Pages and Interactive Layouts

Use a simple dialog box to build navigation menus that help your users get around in web or Flash projects

Design for Blio eReader

Create interactive content for the Blio eReader then sell it through the Blio online bookstore

Export to ePUB

Convert your QuarkXPress layouts into standardized e-books for the iPad, Sony Reader, NOOK and more

Create Flash Animations

Create SWF (Flash) animations without knowing or writing a line of code

Add Pop-up Windows

Easily create custom windows for your interactive media

Synchronized Content

Automatically synchronize text, pictures and formatting

Add Video, Audio and SWF (Flash)

Easily enrich interactive layouts with multimedia files

Create Custom Buttons

Easily create simple and multi-state buttons

Create Scripted Behaviors

Combine actions into powerful scripts

Precision Typography

Special Characters

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 also use a menu item to insert invisible characters and other types of special characters. QuarkXPress also provides keyboard shortcuts for the most-often-used special characters

Create Custom H&J Specifications

The H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) feature lets you completely control the way words hyphenate or prevents 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

Glyphs Palette

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

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

Apply Kerning and Tracking

The kerning and tracking features in QuarkXPress help you achieve optimal spacing between character pairs automatically or manually and copyfit text by manipulating the space between every character in a word, line or paragraph

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

Convert Text to Picture and Text Boxes

In QuarkXPress, you can select a few characters or an entire paragraph of text and convert it to boxes with a single command. Then you can fill the boxes with text, colors, or even an image

Additional Features

Font mapping, hyphenation exceptions, text find/change, hot-swappable user interface, languages, custom text runaround, spellchecking and hyphenation in 38+ languages

Font Fallback

The Font Fallback feature ensures that if a font is missing, a suitable alternate font is substituted so you can still see the content and not boxes or question marks

Make an Impression with Professional Text Formatting

QuarkXPress allows you to do nearly anything you can think of with your typography; packaging over two decades of experience into QuarkXpress 9

Run Text Along a Complex Path

QuarkXPress lets you create any shape you can imagine with Bézier tools and then run text along that shape, with full typographic control

Jabber

Jabber lets you fill a box with text so you can see what the final layout will look like when the content is ready

Create Custom Underline Styles

You can create your own underline styles for text with different widths, colors, shades and offsets

Story Editor

Allows you to concentrate on just the text by hiding the elements in the layout

East Asian Typography

QuarkXPress lets layout artists work with East Asian typographical concepts

Conditional Styles

Automatically style content based on powerful styling rules

Page Grids and Grid Styles

Maintain complete control over text and object alignment

Style Sheets

Control and update text style with style sheets

Bullets and Numbering

Easily create and customize lists and outlines

Linkster

Unlink and relink text boxes without overflow

Hanging Characters

Allows you to create accurately aligned margins

Layout Automation

Item Styles

Item styles are like style sheets for items. An item style is a named package of formatting options for items only. 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 terms of conditions and one for body pages. If you update a master page, all the pages that use it get updated automatically. Combine shared content and you can even create hierarchical master pages

Item Find/Change

The Item Find/Change feature allows you to find and replace a wide range of item attributes, including box characteristics, box colors, frame characteristics and line, picture, text and drop-shadow attributes. You can even search for an attribute such as box size and then wherever it's found, change a different attribute such as the number of columns

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 the 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 quickly and easily

Conditional Styles

Automatically style content based on powerful styling rules

Lists

Easily create tables of contents, lists of Figures and more

Synchronized Content

Automatically synchronize text, pictures and formatting

Callouts

Boxes and groups move automatically with your text

ImageGrid

Import and automatically build grids of images

Books

Synchronize assets across multiple chapters

Additional Layout and Automation Features

Indexes and automatic page numbering

Style Sheets

Speed formatting with style sheets

Reliable 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

Soft Proofing

With ICC profiles and a powerful color-management engine, QuarkXPress can display digital previews of what a layout will look like when it is printed to a variety of different output devices. This allows you to 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

ICC Color Management

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 your display what a layout will look like on different output devices

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

Overprint Control

QuarkXPress gives you full control of overprinting for both delicate content such as small text and black color tones in imported EPS pictures

Collaboration

Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel

QuarkXPress lets you import data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, arrange it into an attractive layout, 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, auxiliary dictionary which can then be shared

Integration with QuarkCopyDesk

QuarkCopyDesk lets content creators concentrate on design without worrying about layout

JobJackets

Share and synchronize resources and catch errors before they occur

Composition Zones

Allows several people to work on the same layout simultaneously