QuarkXPress 7 and 8 support PostScript, TrueType and Opentype fonts. QuarkXPress 8 now includes all the typographical functions offered by OpenType technology as well as access to the Unicode multilingual code.
The MAIN innovations in MULTILINGUAL DTP offered by version 8
Version 8 runs on computers with Mac OS X 10.4 or above, and supports both MacIntels and PowerPCs.
Quark has reworked the user interface, rendering it more efficient and user-friendly.
Creating SWF files in over 30 languages, including Asian languages
It is possible to create a design and convert it into SWF format (Flash®) directly from QuarkXPress
Typographical precision
This version supports OpenType fonts and the style options made possible by them.
QuarkXPress 8 offers the most advanced innovations for the management of Asian languages
Worldwide users of QuarkXPress 8 can now communicate with Eastern Asian markets through the support offered for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Users:
Photocomposers, specialised DTP graphics, creative artists and pre-printing experts.
Production:
High level layout designs with numerous graphic elements, newspapers, brochures, packaging, catalogues, adverts and books.
What it offers:
It is the de facto standard for high quality publishing using Mac.
It manages documents of thousands of pages.
Thorough text and graphic controls and extended functions similar to those of Adobe InDesign.
It enables the creation of tables and makes use of numerous third party programmes (Xtensions) for specific applications and functions.
Multi-level multilingual documents may be created.
Exportation and languages:
Exports in XML, HTML, EPS, PDF and printing files.
Versions:
Passport versions 4, 5 and 6 managed the following Western languages directly: Danish, French, English, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and German, and, with, the support offered for supplementary languages: Czech, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Polish and Portuguese. Hyphenation required the use of third-party Xtensions.
Through Unicode support and OpenType fonts, version 7 extended its language base considerably, managing many languages and alphabets. However, local versions were still required for Arabic and Hebrew.
QuarkXPress 8 now manages and handles hyphenation in the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (International), English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, German (Reformed), German (Swiss), German (Swiss Reformed), Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
Users of ALL QuarkXPress editions can now open, edit, apply styles and manage document outputs in Asian languages, preserving all the characteristics applied.
Finally, local versions, Arabic versions and a Mundra version (for Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit and Nepalese) are available.
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