QuarkXpress 2015, available from 28 April

Rob van den Braak/08/04/2015/Design, Diversen

Based on the top 10 of user requests Quark has adjusted their desktop publishing and design software QuarkXPress. Most important adjustments are support for PDF/X4 output, larger page sizes and a fixed layout option for interactive ebooks.
QuarkXPress has become much faster due to the long expected 64 bit structure. Version 10 users can upgrade for 299 Euro, if you buy QuarkXPress 10 now you get QuarkXPress 2015 for free. Below is a list of the top 10 changes.

• Stunning 64-bit Performance
• Verified PDF/X-4 Output
• Larger Page Sizes
• Dedicated Orthogonal Line Tool
• Fixed Layout Interactive eBooks
• Custom Paper Sizes
• Relink Any Picture in the Usage Dialogue
• Collect for Output for Complete Project
• User-definable Shortcut Keys on Mac
• Table Styles
• Format Painter
• Automatic Footnotes and End Notes
• A new, much faster table tool for superior Excel integration with table styles
• Text variables for automatically populating reoccurring fields – such as running headers
• Tool Palette, Measurement Palette and Palette Group Docking on Windows

Rob van den Braak

Printer’s devil (1964), phototypesetter, offsetprinter, teacher of graphic techniques, salesmanager, productmanager, trade journalist, founder of BlokBoek e-zine (2011). But above all husband, father, friend and lover of life in southern Spain (since 2010).