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TMO at Macworld - Quark Discusses QuarkXPress 7 Features, Educational Program
by , 1:20 PM EDT, July 14th, 2005
BOSTON -- Quark, makers of QuarkXPress 6, took some time to sit down with The Mac Observer and discuss both their educational program, as well as some things to look forward to in the upcoming QuarkXPress 7.
We received a quick update on their educational program from Shellie L. Hall, Marketing Development Manager and Education Evangelist. The program, which has been active for about a year, offers deep discounts on QuarkXPress to qualified instructors and students for $199 for a single copy, and as low as $99 a seat if purchasing a 10-pack. This is a substantial savings off the suggested retail price of $1,045. We were told of the product being used by students as early as 8th grade, in one case for a collaborative yearbook project.
As for the upcoming QuarkXPress 7, we were briefed on major new features by Marc Horne, Desktop Marketing Manager, Glen Turpin, Director of Communications, and Tarra Gukhool, PR Specialist - Customer Relations. The first thing the team highlighted were the major goals of QuarkXPress 7, which are providing a premium design experience, making it easier for their users to collaborate, and to provide more layout and media options.
One example in the design space will be a new transparency features to be included in QuarkXPress 7, where users will be able to specify the opacity of the elements that make up any items or content in QuarkXPress — text, pictures, blends, boxes, frames, lines, tables, and more. QuarkXPress 7 will have greater control over transparency than other applications by managing opacity levels for any color element of an object rather than on an object-by-object basis.
In the collaboration area, QuarkXPress 7 will use industry-standard JDF to allow users to set specifications to control a job from start to finish using a Quark Job Jacket. A Quark Job Jacket will incorporate detailed workflow and prepress information directly into a QuarkXPress project. This will help control every aspect of the publication, from design to output and beyond.
QuarkXPress 7 is slated to be released before the end of 2005.
Observer Comments
QuoteGuest wrote:
Since when has Quark been so free and open with information, except to the knighted few? Just one more indication that they are gussying themselves up to be bought out/taken over/merged into/etc.
Yeah, they are doomed
InDesign has a big part of the user base now. Anyone have the recent figures?
Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:05 pm Subject: Die Hard XPress user is switching to InD
I have been a die hard xpress user. I didn't want to switch because I would have to learn all new shortcuts. I can fly in Quark. But last month I had to do a couple of projects in InD. WOW!!! I am not in the process of switch over to InD completely. I will keep updating QXP (maybe) because we have clients turn in Quark files every once in awhile. Over the past 3 years, more and more ads have been coming in as .pdfs instead of raw collect for ouputs.
InD still doesn't export a proper .pdf file. Still need to distill the .ps file.
Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:59 pm Subject: Exporting PDF
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