Integration
Working together with other design applications has never been easier!
QuarkXPress® 8 adds native Illustrator® file import, standardized tools, and Adobe® Bridge integration to existing designer-friendly Photoshop® integration.

You can import or drag and drop an Illustrator file directly to your page. Better still, use our redefined illustration tool set to draw like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications, making illustration changes where it matters mostin the context of your layout.

Importing Photoshop files is just the beginningQuarkXPress is also the only page-layout application that gives designers control of creative features such as layer transparency, blend modes, and spot color channels right on the page.

Design Using Dictionaries and Hyphenation in More Than 30 Languages
Whether you’re designing multi-lingual documents or repurposing a document from another part of the world, QuarkXPress® 8 offers global publishing capabilities and support for more than 30 languages in every edition.

Virtually anywhere in the world your workflow extends, the new global file format, hyphenation, and spelling capabilities of QuarkXPress 8 mean that you can be sure your team works together seamlessly. What’s more, you can even open, edit, style, and output East Asian documents without worries. QuarkXPress also includes multiple-language user interfaces* that can be switched at will, letting your team members work in the language they choose.

New Picture and Pen Tools
Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress® 8.
Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content toolno need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image!

Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tooljust like you do in Illustrator® and other major graphics applications. Most importantly, you can focus on the task at hand because we’ve separated illustration tools from the tools you use for basic page-layout tasks.

Easy Page Layout with Drag and Drop
Little things make a big differencewe think you’ll love the way we handle drag and drop.
Design as quickly and fluidly as your ideas. When you move your text or picture content to the page, the box is automatically createdno need to pre-define boxes!

You can drag text and pictures from your desktop, Adobe® Bridge, iP®, or any other application that supports drag and drop, and your box is created for you. You can even drag picture boxes from QuarkXPress to your graphics application to customize your images.

Streamlined Tools with Familiar Keyboard Controls
Picking the right tool for the job is easy in QuarkXPress 8.
We’ve streamlined and simplified our Tools palette, so the tools do more and it’s easier to choose the right one. Even familiar tools like the Item and Content tools get major boosts. For example, you can rotate any box simply by grabbing its corner.

You’ll also enjoy single-key commandsconsistent with familiar applications such as Photoshop®to select tools, as well as keyboard modifiers for duplicating, scaling from center, and performing other common tasks.

By aligning with your other mission-critical tools, while keeping everything you love, QuarkXPress gives you the best of both worlds!

Design and Output Flash (SWF) Directly from QuarkXPress
Page-layout professionals can create rich Flash® projectswithout compromising designusing the built-in Flash authoring capabilities included in every edition of QuarkXPress® 8.

Working in the same, familiar print environment of QuarkXPress 8, you can take existing print jobs to Flash, or create new Flash projects, in minutesno additional purchase or coding required! Interactive design in QuarkXPress 8 includes support for all of the new typographic features, the improved illustration (pen) tool set, full integration with Item Styles and other features, and support for more than 30 languages, including East Asian scripts. No other page-layout application gives you such advanced design capabilities that you can apply directly and easily to Flash design!

Synchronize Content across Print, Web, and Flash
Take the headache out of creating complex campaigns across mediarich design across media is made possibleand availableonly in QuarkXPress!

Not only does QuarkXPress let you create designer-friendly HTML and Flash content, it helps you maintain design consistency across media through Item Styles and the unique Shared Content feature. They keep your headlines, body copy, images, and even vector art the same across multiple layouts and media types with no need for manual updates. You can also place a live, Interactive layout into a Web layout, designing the Flash elements and the rest of the page at the same time, in the same application. Then, with a single click, you can export the layouts into HTML or SWF format!

Flash for Everyone
Thanks to QuarkXPress 8, the dynamic medium of Flash is no longer restricted to highly trained programmers. Even better, because every edition of QuarkXPress 8 includes built-in Flash authoring, it’s the only page-layout application that gives you the ability to create rich Flash projects easily, and without having to buy or use a separate application. No more juggling or learning multiple applicationsjust another example of innovation you expect from superior page-layout and design software.

Whether you're a freelancer aiming to provide a complete service to your clients for print, Web, and interactive design, or a business that wants to get the most design power out of your creative professionals, Web and Interactive layouts in QuarkXPress 8 let anyone design across media. It’s fast, easy, and cost-effective.

QuarkXPress 8 follows a familiar, page-based model rather than a complex timeline, so you can build rich, fully interactive communications that include animation, video, and moreusing the same application you already know. If you’ve ever struggled to master Flash creationor avoided it altogetheryou’ll be amazed by how quickly you can create rich, attractive, and compelling interactive content with QuarkXPress 8!

Create Stunning Text and Achieve the Effects you Want withHanging Characters
QuarkXPress® 8 offers easy-to-use, precise, and fully customizable control for hanging characters. You can control the look of your text margin alignment by quickly applying preloaded settings for Hanging Punctuation and Punctuation Margin Alignment. And only QuarkXPress 8 offers the ability to apply your settings at the paragraph level, so settings don’t have to apply to an entire story. You can even include the hanging characters setting as part of a style sheet.

But our settings are just the beginning. You can build your own settings to precisely define the hang of any character you choose, including drop caps, to create the design effects that work for you.

Unicode and OpenType Support
Developed for global publishing, QuarkXPress 8 supports the OpenType® font standard and Unicode® encodings that let you work with a massive range of special characters. Every edition of QuarkXPress 8 can handle East Asian, Roman, Cyrillic, and other character types with new font menus that preview your chosen font as well as an enhanced Glyph's palette to help you find just the character you need. QuarkXPress 8 also supports more than 20 new OpenType features for East Asian scripts, leveraging the power of this font standard to create pro-quality typography.