New QXML DOM schema immediately opens QuarkXPress file format for open standard XML reading; next version of QXML to allow writing. At Macworld San Francisco yesterday Quark, Inc. introduced QXML, the QuarkXPress Markup Langauge, an XML schema of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) that enables developers to create custom XTensions…

In a press release issued today Quark accepts and announces receipt of the 2004 Macworld Editor’s Choice (Eddy) Award in the Most Improved Page-Layout Software category for QuarkXPress 6.5 (related story). “We are very pleased to get this level of recognition from such a flagship publication as Macworld,” said Kamar Aulakh, Quark president and CEO.…

With QuarkXPress 6 or 6.5, making changes to text that repeats across a page or even multiple, disparate layouts is a matter of doing it just once with Synchronized Text. QuarkXPress 6 introduced the concept of multiple print and/or web layouts in a single document. The idea, of course, is to keep related layouts in…

ChooseFile, makers of ID Image Book 1.2 for InDesign CS, today announced the release of QXP Images Book 1.1, a QuarkXPress 6 or later Xtension that automates the import of images and automatically formats the images into a catalog. Strictly OS X (ChooseFile doesn’t do Windows), both ID Image Book and the new QXP Image…

Adobe announced yesterday the immediate availability of Acrobat 7, including Standard, Professional, and the license-only Elements. Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional Acrobat 7 includes numerous enhancements and refinements to features already in place in version 6, but it also includes several new features. Most notably is the ability for document creators to activate document-specific review and…