Quark Offers "Buy QuarkXPress 7, Get QuarkXPress 8 Free" Promotion

PRESS RELEASE

DÜSSELDORF, Germany – 05-29-2008 Today Quark announced QuarkXPress® 8, the next major release of the indus­try stan­dard page-layout and design soft­ware that deliv­ers supe­ri­or design pow­er through a new, mod­ern and intu­itive inter­face. The new soft­ware will be avail­able for pur­chase direct­ly from Quark and through Quark® resellers world­wide with­in the next 60 days. In the inter­im – between May 29, 2008 and August 1, 2008 – Quark users who pur­chase or upgrade to QuarkXPress 7 at reg­u­lar price are eli­gi­ble to upgrade to QuarkXPress 8 for free.

QuarkXPress 7 was one of the most sig­nif­i­cant upgrades to QuarkXPress ever. With more than 160 new and enhanced fea­tures, QuarkXPress 7 has improved page-layout and design work­flow with fea­tures such as Composition Zones®, Job Jackets®, and advanced trans­paren­cy and drop shad­ow func­tion­al­i­ty. QuarkXPress 8 builds on those fea­tures to advance the design expe­ri­ence with a new, mod­ern and intu­itive inter­face, built-in Web and Flash® author­ing tools, design-driven typog­ra­phy, and glob­al pub­lish­ing capa­bil­i­ties. These new fea­tures allow users to:

– Move freely through the application
– Share print con­tent across media
– Maintain con­trol to cre­ate stun­ning text
– Work faster and smarter with Illustrator® file import and Photoshop® support
– Fully cus­tomize hang­ing char­ac­ters and base­line grids
– Publish glob­al­ly with dic­tio­nar­ies and hyphen­ation for more than 30 languages

See today’s cor­re­spond­ing press release on QuarkXPress 8 for fur­ther infor­ma­tion or vis­it 8.quark.com. Quark will be deliv­er­ing a series of QuarkXPress 8 pod­casts, “how-to” guides and much more over the next 60-days on this site.

Promotion Details
The “Buy QuarkXPress 7, Get QuarkXPress 8 Free” pro­mo­tion is avail­able to any­one pur­chas­ing or upgrad­ing to QuarkXPress 7 from now through August 1, 2008, either direct­ly from Quark or through Quark resellers. Quark is also extend­ing this offer to any­one who has pur­chased or upgrad­ed to QuarkXPress 7 from May 1, 2008 through May 29, 2008. For fur­ther details and terms and con­di­tions, please see 8.quark.com/promos.

About Quark
Quark Inc. (www​.quark​.com) pro­vides desk­top pub­lish­ing and dynam­ic pub­lish­ing soft­ware that help cus­tomers design and pub­lish rich­ly designed com­mu­ni­ca­tions across a broad spec­trum of media. Two decades ago, our flag­ship prod­uct — QuarkXPress — changed the course of tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing. Today, not only does QuarkXPress con­tin­ue to inno­vate in the desk­top pub­lish­ing mar­ket — now Quark is rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing pub­lish­ing again with Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, help­ing cus­tomers cost-effectively meet enterprise-scale pub­lish­ing chal­lenges by extend­ing the ben­e­fits of advanced tech­nolo­gies across the pub­lish­ing process. Denver-based Quark Inc. is pri­vate­ly held.