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Quark Offers Free 60-Day QuarkXPress 8 Test Drive

Friday 01. August 2008 - 60-Day Evaluation Period Allows Users to Xperience Design with QuarkXPress 8's New, Intuitive User Interface, Improved Typographical Control, and Built-In Flash Functionality

Today Quark announced the availability of a free 60-day, fully-functional download of QuarkXPress 8, the new version of the industry standard software that raises the bar for page-layout and design.

In addition to a new user interface that allows designers and creative professionals to work faster with fewer clicks, QuarkXPress offers users more typographic control, built-in Flash and Web authoring tools, and a single global file format that supports advanced eastern and western typography for more than 30 languages.

Customers who download the free 60-Day Test Drive version can also look forward to:

– Native Illustrator file import and new illustration tools
– Common Illustrator and Photoshop keyboard controls
– Easy page layout with drag and drop functionality
– Items Styles and Item Find/Change
– Output styles suited for PDF workflows, including PDF/X and PDF/X PLUS
– New International publishing features
– Enhancements to everyday features

According to a new independent report by Pfeiffer Consulting, all of these changes add up to significant productivity benefits for users. Andreas Pfeiffer, of Pfeiffer Consulting, conducted benchmark analysis of QuarkXPress 8 and found that it is almost three times faster than QuarkXPress 6.5 and QuarkXPress 7. “The big benefit of QuarkXPress 8 is that it manages to make very commonly used operations more efficient and more productive without attaching a big learning curve. For example, the new picture management tool is designed in such a way that now it lets you do everything including rotating the image, rotating the box, cropping the image, resizing, and scaling, in one go without ever having to go to a menu.”