14 Facts About QuarkXPress

QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing software for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG environment.

QuarkXPress is used by individual designers, large publishing houses and corporations to produce a variety of layouts, from single-page flyers and collateral to the multi-media projects required for magazines, newspapers, catalogs and the like.

In 1989, QuarkXPress incorporated an application programming interface called XTensions which allows third-party developers to create custom add-on features to the desktop application.

QuarkXPress lost marketshare due to an increasing price gap between it and InDesign.

QuarkXPress offers the ability for composite work-flows, both with PostScript and PDF output.

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The PSD integration and picture manipulation features led to QuarkXPress receiving a number of awards, such as the Macworld Editor's Choice for 2004.

QuarkXPress 7 added unique features, such as native transparency at the color level.

QuarkXPress 8 introduced a completely new user interface, support for drag and drop, PDF 1.

In October 2008, QuarkXPress 8 won the MacUser Award for Print Publishing Software of the Year.

QuarkXPress 10, was described by Quark as a major re-write of the software on the Mac platform in particular to move it from the older Carbon API to Cocoa.

QuarkXPress 2015 was the first version to use a different naming scheme.

QuarkXPress 2016 included the ability to import and copy and paste from other applications and file formats to native QuarkXPress objects.

QuarkXPress 2017 continued the new naming scheme and established an annual release cycle.

Since QuarkXPress is natively capable of creating HTML projects, this allows web designers to design and build their HTML and Flash elements and combine them all in a single application.