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New Promotion Eases Migration to QuarkXPress 8 with Free XTensions Upgrades

Wednesday 23. July 2008 - Customers purchasing selected third-party QuarkXPress 7 XTensions between now and 1 August, 2008 will get upgrades to the equivalent QuarkXPress 8 XTensions for free.

Quark Inc. announced today that leading QuarkXPress XTensions developers, are offering a special introductory “Buy v7 XTensions, Get v8 XTensions Free” promotion for a limited time only. In support of Quark’s own promotion – that is currently providing free upgrades to QuarkXPress 8 with any QuarkXPress 7 purchase – a host of well-known QuarkXPress XTensions developers are joining in and offering users the same for their products. Developers are working to ensure that users who are upgrading will not experience downtime in the transition and can continue to benefit from the automated and expedited workflows that XTensions offer.

Qualifying products are being offered from recognised developers such as: Compusense, Badia Software, GLUON, JoLauterbach, Layout, Ltd., Em Software, Gassenhuber, InfoLogic, Virginia System, XTmaker Studio, OnOne Software, and Insider Software on most of the XTensions in their product lines.

“With thousands of commercially available XTensions for QuarkXPress that directly integrate with a production or design environment, end users can realise an immediate return on their investment. Tedious and repetitive tasks associated with publishing projects can be automated with XTensions technology, saving users time and money,” said Terry Welty, Quark Sr. VP Corporate Marketing. “Database publishing, indexing and footnoting, pre-flighting, hyphenation and spellchecking, imposition, graphic management, batch printing, colour management, and much more are streamlined or eliminated when using third-party XTensions.”

Since the release of QuarkXPress v3.0, XTensions have become an integral part of millions of end users’ workflows and some of these have been available since that inception in the very early 90s. After nearly two decades, XTensions continue to provide users with advanced solutions for their specific requirements, easily and affordably. For those users who haven’t discovered the power of XTensions, now is the perfect time to take advantage of the abundant options to increase productivity.

Promotion Details

XTensions distributors, such as XChange International (http://www.xchangeuk.com) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, are working with developers to provide the option for users to buy version 7 XTensions now and receive the upgrade to version 8 products free when they ship.

Participating developers and other XTensions distributors are listed at http://www.quarkalliance.com/buy_7_get_8.html