Quark listens: Alters licensing for previous versions

Users can now run pre­vi­ous ver­sions on same com­put­er with QuarkXPress 7 

PRESS RELEASE

DENVER – November 7, 2006 – DENVER — November 7, 2006 — Yes, it’s true. Your license for QuarkXPress 6 is alive and well when upgrad­ing to QuarkXPress 7. Quark Inc. has announced today that cus­tomers who upgrade to QuarkXPress 7 will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be able to use QuarkXPress 6 on the same machine. 

“Quite simply,” Richard Pasewark, Quark senior vice pres­i­dent of sales (Americas) and mar­ket­ing, said, “this is in response to cus­tomer feed­back and is anoth­er exam­ple of how Quark has fun­da­men­tal­ly changed its approach to doing busi­ness in the last two years. Customers are thrilled with QuarkXPress 7 and based on user feed­back this pol­i­cy change will help stream­line and fast-track the upgrade plans for many customers.”

Customers plan­ning to upgrade to QuarkXPress 7 can now do so while test­ing their work­flows at a pace that meets their unique needs while using pre­vi­ous ver­sions of the soft­ware to sup­port pro­duc­tion and client requirements.

The news is in addi­tion to a long list of customer-friendly changes at Quark dur­ing the last few years including:
• Free English-speaking tech­ni­cal support
• The abil­i­ty to deac­ti­vate and re-activate or trans­fer a license of QuarkXPress 7 from one com­put­er to anoth­er with­out the help of tech­ni­cal support
• The abil­i­ty to install QuarkXPress at home and at work
• Lower pric­ing over­all and sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er pric­ing for edu­ca­tion­al users
• Wide avail­abil­i­ty of QuarkXPress upgrades through autho­rized com­mer­cial and edu­ca­tion­al resellers
• Strategic part­ner­ship with Apple includ­ing QuarkXPress 7 being offered as the first Universal design and pub­lish­ing appli­ca­tion on the new Intel-based Macs 

Users must have a license from Quark to run a pre­vi­ous ver­sion of QuarkXPress, which must be installed on the same com­put­er as the QuarkXPress 7 upgrade. Previous ver­sions of QuarkXPress can­not be trans­ferred to anoth­er user. Users upgrad­ing from ver­sions 4 and 5 to QuarkXPress 7 can con­tin­ue to run those ver­sions of the soft­ware, although tech­ni­cal sup­port is only offered on QuarkXPress 6 and lat­er. The lat­est QuarkXPress 7 end user license agree­ment can be found at http://​euro​.quark​.com/​e​n​/eula/.

Information about the lat­est update for QuarkXPress 7 can be found at www​.quark​.com/​7​0​2​update.

About Quark
Quark Inc. (www​.quark​.com) is an inno­v­a­tive soft­ware com­pa­ny pro­vid­ing design, pro­duc­tion, and col­lab­o­ra­tion solu­tions that are trans­form­ing the busi­ness of cre­ative com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Quark has pro­vid­ed award-winning soft­ware for pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ers since its flag­ship prod­uct, QuarkXPress, changed the course of tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing. Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark Inc. is pri­vate­ly held.

3 thoughts on “Quark listens: Alters licensing for previous versions”

  1. Key Observer

    I won­der why this is a big news. On Intel Macs, there’s no point in run­ning old QXP ver­sions, when one can do so with a UB 7.02. On PC’s one can’t install mul­ti­ple copies of a sim­i­lar appli­ca­tion due to win­dows reg­istry entries !! Is any­body laugh­ing his way to the stores, hmmm ? – Key Observer.

  2. Samuel John Klein

    Now that is some notable news. 

    This means that any­one with a .qxd that was gen­er­at­ed in Version 5 will be able to save twice and con­vert up. That’s fantastic.

  3. Pariah S. Burke Post author

    “Key Observer” said:

    I won­der why this is a big news. On Intel Macs, there’s no point in run­ning old QXP ver­sions, when one can do so with a UB 7.02. On PC’s one can’t install mul­ti­ple copies of a sim­i­lar appli­ca­tion due to win­dows reg­istry entries !! Is any­body laugh­ing his way to the stores, hmmm ?

    I’m afraid you haven’t been obser­vant enough, Key Observer.

    First, the Windows Registry does not pre­vent or lim­it in any way the abil­i­ty to run dif­fer­ent ver­sions of the same soft­ware. Some appli­ca­tions, like MS Office, have dif­fi­cul­ties with mul­ti­ple ver­sions, but that’s not a con­se­quence of the oper­at­ing sys­tem’s Registry; it’s because the appli­ca­tion itself was built in such a way that it can­not tol­er­ate mul­ti­ple con­cur­rent installations.

    To wit: On my WinXP teach­ing lap­top I have installed the fol­low­ing ful­ly func­tion­al applications:
    – 4 ver­sions of InDesign
    – 4 ver­sions of InCopy
    – 4 ver­sions of QuarkXPress
    – 3 ver­sions each of Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat (note that only the most recent Acrobat Distiller print­er [usu­al­ly “Create Adobe PDF”] will func­tion because of its appli­ca­tion limitations)

    My PowerPC OSX PowerBook has sim­i­lar multiple-version instal­la­tions of those and oth­er applications.

    The abil­i­ty to run mul­ti­ple ver­sions of any cre­ative pro appli­ca­tion is impor­tant to sev­er­al seg­ments of the visu­al com­mu­ni­ca­tions mar­ket. With QuarkXPress and its lim­i­ta­tion of sav­ing file com­pat­i­ble only with the cur­rent and imme­di­ate­ly pre­vi­ous ver­sion of the appli­ca­tion, that abil­i­ty is absolute­ly crit­i­cal to the via­bil­i­ty of numer­ous workflows.

    Not every­one moves up to each new release of cre­ative pro appli­ca­tions. There are many, many work­flows still run­ning QuarkXPress 4.x, includ­ing book, cat­a­log, and direct mail pub­lish­ers, and most espe­cial­ly news­pa­pers who run a more robust front-end sys­tem atop QuarkXPress 4.x or even 3.3. Ad agen­cies, design­ers, and adver­tis­ers who send con­tent into such work­flows need to be able to deliv­er QuarkXPress 4.x- or 3.3‑comptable files, which means keep­ing a copy of those ver­sions of XPress locally.

    The mat­ter is even more impor­tant for print and pre-press ser­vice providers who must accept dig­i­tal files from an even broad­er and more diverse base.

    Someone like myself needs to main­tain mul­ti­ple ver­sions of cre­ative pro appli­ca­tions for train­ing, con­sult­ing, book and arti­cle writ­ing ref­er­ence, trou­bleshoot­ing, and so on.

    Because XPress 7 dis­abled all pri­or ver­sions installed on the same sys­tem, any work­flow that need­ed access to pri­or ver­sions sim­ply could not upgrade to XPress 7. With the licens­ing fix, Quark has removed that major upgrade hur­dle and opened the door for more XPress 7 sales.

    So, to answer your ques­tion more direct­ly: Yes, this news will inspire the hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple in numer­ous, multiple-XPress-dependent work­flows to laugh all the way to the store.

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