
QuarkXPress
Award-winning design and layout software for print and digital publishing
What is QuarkXPress?
Computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment. It runs on Mac OS X and Windows. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them. The most recent version is QuarkXPress 8 and it allows publishing in English ("International and U.S."[1]) and 36 other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish. QuarkXPress is used by individual designers and large publishing houses, primarily to produce any kind of layout, from flyers to complex page layouts required by magazines etc.
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Supported Languages
- English
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- pdf-conversion
- indesign
- textonpath
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This software works great. I switched to it from InDesign CC which kept crashing. Initially, I was put off by the "old school" interface, but once I really started working on projects with it, I noticed how well thought out all the details are. It looks like in version 2017, they have really listened to customers: whatever I wanted to do, there was a specific feature for it that made it intuitive and easy.
Just tried the new 2018 Version, and it improves in areas I could not even have hoped for: it can now import all my InDesign CC files, and you can feel the attention to detail throughout : for example, in version 2017 I felt that the grid lines were slightly too thick on a retina display, not sufficient of an issue to report, but I am happy that they have made them thinner in version 2018. So, not only headline features have been worked on, but also the small details. Lovely.
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New versions in 2016 (added native conversion of PDFs from any application including MS Office, and HTML5 smart app output) and 2017 (native output of iOS apps, image editing, transparencies) put QX substantially ahead of its nearest (but highly popular) rival. It's also subscription-free.
Review 7/5/18
I've used
Adobe InDesign for several years, I can confidently say I know how to do almost everything with it. Including how to write and load scripts, 3rd party plugins, etc. I also know how to use at a basic level
Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Illustrator,
Affinity Designer
I read through almost all the docs I can find with quark express, PDFs, and lynda.com 2016 tutorials. Browsed through some of the official youtube videos.
Using quarkxpress just felt weird. I have a couple of gripes with it after a few hours of using the 2018 version:
Maybe my opinion of it might change though down the road though. I was looking for a simplified version of adobe indesign to handle a 2column multipage layout. Nothing crazy or complex that needed many styles or functionality. The final document could be dull looking so long as it was easy to maintain content wise.
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