Create visually stunning graphics from within QuarkXPress Passport 7 - no need to switch to another application. Use the revolutionary Composition Zones' functionality to collaborate with multiple users anywhere in the world on the same layout at the same time. Optimize your production workflows with new Job Jackets' technology. Work faster with a streamlined user interface and dynamic design tools.
Effortless collaboration
In traditional linear workflows, contributors must wait for other team members to complete their work in a layout before they can work on their assignments. With QuarkXPress 7, team members can make changes to the same QuarkXPress page at the same time. QuarkXPress 7 composition zones are ideal for any fast-paced environment where people need to work on various aspects of a page or layout simultaneously.
Confidence in consistency
In addition to promoting more efficient collaboration, QuarkXPress 7 helps workgroups obtain consistent output by sharing specifications across workstations using Job Jackets. The Job Jackets feature takes a revolutionary step beyond preflighting: it helps ensure that a print job adheres to its specifications from the moment it is created, and that it continues to adhere to those specifications all the way through until it rolls off of the press.
Synchronised content
QuarkXPress also introduces new features to promote consistency and automate changes across layouts by synchronising text, pictures and item attributes, including text formatting, picture effects, colours and drop shadows. The shared content palette accepts any type of item, including picture boxes, text boxes, lines and text paths. When items are added to the shared content palette, users can specify what is synchronised: item attributes, content attributes or content only. Changes to one synchronised item will reflect in all instances of that synchronised item, including on master pages.
Accurate colour
Quark is building on work done by standards organisations such as the International Color Consortium (ICC) to promote a uniform approach to colour management, and is working to bring the benefits of colour management to designers and output specialists by simplifying key aspects of colour management. QuarkXPress 7 addresses the concerns of larger publishing groups by making colour management settings portable and easy to set up, and addresses the concerns of smaller shops by providing a well-tuned set of default colour management settings.
Flexible design
With new transparency features included in QuarkXPress 7, users can specify the opacity of the elements that make up any item or content in QuarkXPress - text, pictures, blends, boxes, frames, lines, tables and more. QuarkXPress 7 provides greater control over transparency than other applications by managing opacity levels for any colour element of an object rather than on an object-by-object basis.
A new window on your work
In QuarkXPress 7, users are able to see how detailed changes affect an entire page, layout or project by splitting the QuarkXPress window into two or more panes or opening any number of new windows for a project. To maximise workspace, users are be able to create custom palette groupings that can be expanded, collapsed and resized according to user needs. The Measurements palette has been improved with different tabs that change according to the selected item in the layout. Everyday features such as tab settings and item alignment have been redesigned so users can work faster and smarter.
Better tables
Tables have been enhanced significantly in QuarkXPress 7, with new table grouping, table rotation, auto-fit, non-anchored continued tables and header and footer rows features. It will includes handy features to select all even rows, even columns, odd rows or odd columns in a table for formatting, which lets users shade every other row in a table easily to improve readability. QuarkXPress 7 automatically resizes table cells as necessary to accommodate data from an imported Microsoft Excel table.
New Features - Creativity (I)
- Transparency:
- Colour opacity
- Alpha channel masks in TIFF and PSD
- Drop shadows
- Synchronized 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)
New Features - Creativity (II)
- Intuitive Colour Management:
- Automatic monitor profile detection
- Easy soft proofing
Shared Content:
- Retain picture attributes when replacing pictures
- Synchronize 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
New Features - Creativity (III)
- 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
- Transparency
XDraw Graphics:
- Improved text smoothing
- Anti-aliased graphic export to Web
- Improved Locking
New Features - Productivity and Collaboration
Quark Job Jackets
- Synchronized design settings (among multiple users)
- Synchronized colour settings (among multiple users)
- Customizable preflighting (layout evaluation)
- JDF support
New Features - 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
Output Styles
Embedding Fonts in EPS Files
Multi-page EPS/PDF/DCS Export
Print Dialogue Enhancements
- Easy-to-use preview
- Create Print Style from dialog
- Font download
- Output JDF
- PostScript 3 enhancements
- Summary screens
New Features - Multi-channel Communication
- Projects and Layouts
- Single layout mode
- Append projects
- Export Projects
- Multiple Window and Split Window view
Variable Data
PPML export
