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QuarkXPress 7.3 Design Bundle

Manufacturer - QUARK

Price £ 880.08    (£ 749.00 exc. VAT )


QUARK - QuarkXPress 7.3 Design Bundle

Description

Tools for simply better design, production and collaboration and a free Pantone Flashdrive.

This bundle offers real value for designers. Buy or upgrade to QuarkXPress® 7 and you’ll not only get 160 new and enhanced features, a printed user manual, free training DVD, and free technical support*, but you will also receive 3 Linotype® font licenses of your choice**, PANTONE® 100 Top Colors swatch, and Quark® XPert Tools Pro software – together worth up to £199 – FREE!

“QuarkXPress 7 is second to none,” said Macworld®. MacUser® declares “Quark fans will be delighted.” And Computer Arts says “Believe the hype. This is unquestionably the most significant upgrade to QuarkXPress since version 3.0.” * Free technical support only available in English, French, or German.

Choose QuarkXPress®, the industry-leading design and layout software that lets you combine precision typography with colour and pictures to produce high-impact design. The new features in QuarkXPress 7 include transparency, drop shadows, Composition Zones™, Job Jackets™, an improved user interface, and enhanced colour management and PDF creation. This powerful upgrade expands your creative options and provides new tools for productivity, collaboration, and consistent and reliable output. Used by more than three million people worldwide, QuarkXPress is the tool of choice for magazines, newspapers, catalogues, advertising and design agencies, printers, and any business that publishes dynamic content. New features include:

Creativity
• Transparency
• Colour opacity
• Alpha channel masks in TIFF and PSD
• Drop shadows
• Synchronised angle
• Runaround

Picture Effects enhancements
• Support for raster EPS
• Non-destructive mask manipulation
• Integrates with Shared Content feature

PSD Import enhancements
• Background transparency supported (in addition to layer transparency and blending modes)

Composition Zones
• Revolutionary layout feature lets you design once and use anywhere with live updates

Intuitive colour management
• Automatic monitor profile detection
• Easy soft proofing

Shared Content
• Retain picture attributes when replacing pictures
• Synchronise attributes and content of any item, image, or text

Typography
• Advanced OpenType features
• Glyph palette
• Insert Special Character menu
• Font fallback

Streamlined interface
• Measurement palette enhancements
• Improved space/align
• Improved tabbing
• Palette groups and sets
• Smart palette snapping
• Identify layer items with layer colours

Tables enhancements
• Running headers and footers
• Splitting tables and running tables
• Auto resize cells
• Automatically select all even rows, even columns, odd rows, or odd columns

Improved locking

Productivity and collaboration
• Quark Job Jackets
• Synchronised design settings (among multiple users)
• Synchronised colour settings (among multiple users)
• Customisable preflighting (layout evaluation)
• JDF support

Output and digital workflow
• Advanced colour management
• Backward compatibility
• Source and output setups
• Many new advanced settings
• PDF/X 1-a and PDF/X 3
• Evaluation
• Verification
• Output Styles
• Print
• EPS
• PDF
• PPML
• Embedding fonts in EPS files
• Multi-page EPS/PDF/DCS export
• Print dialogue enhancements
• Easy-to-use preview
• Create Print Style from dialogue
• Font download
• Output JDF
• PostScript 3 enhancements
• Summary screen

Projects and Layouts
• Single layout mode
• Append projects
• Export Projects
• Multiple Window and Split Window view

XDraw graphics
• Improved text smoothing
• Anti-aliased graphic export to Web

***New in QuarkXPress 7.2 - This maintenance release underscores Quark’s commitment to quality and includes design and print production functionality improvements. Important enhancements include:

• Microsoft Vista™ support

• Job Jackets™: Basic user interface modifications allow you to create new rules directly from a layout evaluation dialogue box, to create and edit output specifications directly from the Output job dialogue box, and to create new layout specifications directly from the layout menu

• Flattening: Users can specify resolutions for different types of objects, specifically vector graphics, drop shadows, and blends

• Colour Management Module: QuarkXPress 7.2 supports Kodak®’s new CMM that adds Black Point Compensation. QuarkXPress 7 continues to support different CMMs that offer users a robust set of choices and cross-platform compatibility

• Support for Quark® XPert Tools Pro XTensions software (Quark XPert Tools Pro is a free download to current QuarkXPress 7 users)

• The resolution of several recently discovered issues

• QuarkXPress Passport® 7.2 users can now take advantage of translated user interfaces for five additional languages Czech, Greek, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish.

***QuarkXPress 7.3 offers default output styles and improved performance:
• Default PDF Output Styles: Preconfigured options for PDF output include:
- Press – High Quality/High Resolution
- Print – Medium Quality/Medium Resolution
- Screen – Medium Quality/Low Resolution
- Screen – Low Quality/Low Resolution
- PDF/X-1a:2001
- PDF/X-3:2002

• Additional supplemental language support: Users can now take advantage of localised user interfaces for European Portuguese, Russian, Finnish, Croatian, and Hungarian. Hyphenation and spelling support has been added for Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic, and Slovak.

• Increased performance and stability: Users will see improved performance when:
- Working with text-heavy and long documents
- Saving documents locally and on network drives
- Outputting documents that contain drop shadows
- Outputting multiple copies or specific ranges of pages
- Checking spelling

• Users will no longer experience reflow when opening documents created in previous versions.

Important note: If you use Mac OS®, you must have QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport® 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.1, or 7.2 installed before updating to QuarkXPress 7.3. If you use Windows®, you must have QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport 7.0, 7.0.2, 7.1, or 7.2 installed before updating to QuarkXPress 7.3.

System Requirements

Mac OS Software Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger) or later Hardware CD-ROM drive for installation
Minimum
128MB total RAM
300MB available hard disk space for QuarkXPress installation Windows Software
Microsoft Windows XP Hardware
CD-ROM drive for installation
Minimum 128MB total RAM
250MB available hard disk space for installation

Release Date: Friday, 1st June 2007