Quark Releases QuarkXPress 7.3 Update

PRESS RELEASE:

DENVER – (quark​.com) – 08-02-2007 Quark Inc. today announced avail­abil­i­ty of the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater, a main­te­nance release of the industry-leading pro­fes­sion­al design soft­ware. The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater pro­vides new local­ized user inter­faces in European Portuguese, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, and Russian, increas­ing the num­ber of lan­guages sup­port­ed by QuarkXPress 7 to 18. In addi­tion, this reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled 90-day main­te­nance release address­es the most fre­quent­ly report­ed issues iden­ti­fied by QuarkXPress 7 users. The updater is avail­able as a free down­load at www​.quark​.com.

“Quark is pleased to empow­er users in Portugal, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, and Russia in their pur­suit of unmatched cre­ativ­i­ty and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty by pro­vid­ing QuarkXPress user inter­faces in their native lan­guages,” said Jürgen Kurz, Quark’s senior vice pres­i­dent, desk­top busi­ness unit. “Equally impor­tant, we are com­mit­ted to act­ing prompt­ly on issues that mat­ter most to our cus­tomers by deliv­er­ing free main­te­nance releas­es every 90 days. I encour­age cus­tomers to down­load the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater to begin lever­ag­ing the sup­ple­men­tal lan­guage fea­tures and enhance­ments of the updater today.”

In addi­tion to the new user inter­faces in these five lan­guages, the updater includes hyphen­ation and spelling sup­port for Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic, and Slovak.

Commitment to cus­tomer feed­back, incre­men­tal enhance­ments The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater address­es the most fre­quent­ly report­ed issues iden­ti­fied by users since the orig­i­nal release of QuarkXPress 7.

When com­par­ing the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater against the Quark 7.2 updater released ear­li­er this year, per­for­mance enhance­ments show:

• Spell checking–Up to 500 per­cent increased per­for­mance in spell check­ing with­in text han­dling for Windows users.
• Saving projects–Up to 75 per­cent faster oper­a­tions when sav­ing doc­u­ments on local and net­work drives
• Resolution to issues when sav­ing to net­work vol­umes or Mac OS Tiger
• Text handling–Up to 50 per­cent faster per­for­mance through enhanced nav­i­ga­tion and when typ­ing with­in text-heavy documents
• Collection for outputï¾—Up to 40 per­cent per­for­mance improve­ment when col­lect­ing for output.

The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater also includes enhance­ments to multiple-copy out­put and project file size. The new Default PDF Output Styles fea­ture, which requires no addi­tion­al set up, also adds more options for PDF out­put, including:

• Press – High Quality/High Resolution
• Print – Medium Quality/Medium Resolution
• Screen – Medium Quality/Low Resolution
• Screen Low Quality/Low Resolution
• PDF/X‑1a: 2001
• PDF/X‑3:2002

For a com­plete list of issues resolved in QuarkXPress 7.3, please vis­it http://​www​.quark​.com/​p​r​o​d​u​c​t​s​/​x​p​r​e​s​s​/​7​3​i​s​s​u​e​s​r​e​s​o​l​v​e​d.html.

To learn more about QuarkXPress 7 and how to pur­chase or upgrade vis­it the Quark Web site. A ful­ly func­tion­al 30-day eval­u­a­tion ver­sion of QuarkXPress 7 is avail­able for down­load from www​.quark​.com.