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A new start with Quark

Adrian Bridgewater   20.03.08

So should you re-start with Quark?

 

Quark has come under criticism for ‘dropping the ball’ in recent years and losing out to its major rival. Certainly, Adobe Creative Suite 3 has made quite an impression on the market, but Quark didn’t carve the space and name for itself that it quite clearly has by being average – so if there had been a lack of focus, it appears likely that many of these shortfalls (160 new features I believe) have been addressed with the latest version of the product.

 

Quoted on ZDNET Jürgen Kurz, senior vice-president at Quark said, “Much of the emphasis in the upgraded version of XPress had been on graphics and illustrations. One of the things we have been spending a lot of money on is better support for [Adobe] Photoshop. We now have the best Photoshop integration on the market.”

 

Quark says that it thinks that QuarkXPress 7, “Represents a breakthrough that will forever change page composition. The industry has gone from proprietary formats to open formats. No application supports more open standards than QuarkXPress 7. The sheer size of the Quark user base and the vast number of third-party developers will undoubtedly lead to exciting new tools.”

 

If you want to get your hands on the latest QuarkXPress 7 product then go and visit http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/

 

Here’s the systems requirements:

 

Mac OS

Mac OSX v10.4 (Tiger™) or later

CD-ROM drive for installation

Minimum 128MB total RAM

230MB available hard disk space for installation

TCP/IP network for site license (if using Quark License Administrator)

 

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows XP

CD-ROM drive for installation

Minimum 128MB total RAM

190MB available hard disk space for installation

 




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But first, a personal confession so that you know how all this started. I actually got the idea from reading a cookery magazine that had done something similar. You know the kind of thing – A for apples, B for bread, C for custard and so on. But those pesky food journalists have it easy don’t they? When they get to X, Y and Z they can just use X for Xérès Sherry, Y for Yeast and even Z for Zabaglione.

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