Quark QuarkXPress 8.0 Educational Software

Features

QuarkXPress 8 complements the way creative professionals work. This superior page-layout and design software helps you speed delivery of print, web, and Flash output.

Modern, intuitive interface
Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool--no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image.

You can also draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bezier Pen tool--just like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications. And the Tools palette is streamlined and simplified, so the tools do more and it's easier to choose the right one.

Design across media
Working in the same, familiar print environment of QuarkXPress 8, you can take existing print jobs to Flash, or create new Flash projects, in minutes and without compromising design.

Not only does QuarkXPress let you create designer-friendly HTML and Flash content, it helps you maintain design consistency across media through Item Styles and the unique Shared Content feature.

Designer-driven typography
QuarkXPress 8 offers easy-to-use, precise, and fully customizable control for hanging characters. You can control the look of your text margin alignment by quickly applying preloaded settings for Hanging Punctuation and Punctuation Margin Alignment. And only QuarkXPress 8 offers the ability to apply your settings at the paragraph level.

Design Grids give you the power to organize the design of your text, offering unprecedented control over your baseline grid settings, the ability to apply unique grid settings to individual boxes, and a Grid Styles feature that can keep even complex documents consistent.

Developed for global publishing, QuarkXPress 8 supports the OpenType font standard and Unicode encodings that let you work with a massive range of special characters.

• Rotate and scale pictures directly with the new Picture Content tool, and preview cropping results as you work
• Grab box corners and rotate without switching to a different tool
• Draw with ease using new Bezier pen tools that follow graphics standards used by other professional creative applications
• Explore new text-to-box support for multiple lines, entire stories, and even multiple boxes, up to an entire spread
• Drag and drop from your desktop or other applications that support drag and drop, such as Adobe Bridge
• Drop a text file in the midst of existing text flow
• Use any box tool to draw a box without worrying about its content (an easy keyboard shortcut enables this for template creation)
• Select or switch tools using a single-letter command, or use traditional QuarkXPress keyboard shortcuts
• Use built-in Flash (SWF) creation, conversion, and export--no additional purchase required
• Leverage your existing print design skills through a common, redefined interface and tool set
• Output Flash files that support high-end typography features
• Place Interactive layouts into Web layouts with live updates, and share them among multiple designers using Composition Zones
• Take an easy path to producing powerful, interactive communications with the page-based--not time-based--model
• Apply more than one hundred predefined actions, easily customizing anything you can place on a page
• Use Hanging Punctuation and punctuation margin alignment presets to achieve smooth-looking margins with little effort
• Customize settings to fit the exact needs of a specific design, font, or even character
• Apply a unique grid to each master page or even to each box
• Build a grid based on existing text styling automatically
• Find glyphs by character or by Unicode number in the Glyphs palette

New Picture and Pen Tools

Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress® 8.

Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool - no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image!

Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bezier Pen tool - just like you do in Illustrator® and other major graphics applications. Most importantly, you can focus on the task at hand because we've separated illustration tools from the tools you use for basic page-layout tasks.

• Rotate and scale pictures directly with the new Picture Content tool, and preview cropping results as you work
• Grab box corners and rotate without switching to a different tool
• Draw with ease using new Bezier pen tools that follow graphics standards used by other professional creative applications
• Explore new text-to-box support for multiple lines, entire stories, and even multiple boxes, up to an entire spread
• When converting text to boxes, maintain the appearance of the text, including color, opacity, and most other text transformations
• Make the most of dedicated tools for layout and illustration tasks

Easy Page Layout with Drag and Drop

Little things make a big difference - we think you'll love the way we handle drag and drop.

Design as quickly and fluidly as your ideas. When you move your text or picture content to the page, the box is automatically created - no need to pre-define boxes!

You can drag text and pictures from your desktop, Adobe® Bridge, iP®, or any other application that supports drag and drop, and your box is created for you. You can even drag picture boxes from QuarkXPress to your graphics application to customize your images.

At a glance

• Drag and drop from your desktop or other applications that support drag and drop, such as Adobe Bridge
• Drop a text file in the midst of existing text flow
• Drag and drop images from your layout to the editing application of your choice
• Work with or without pre-defined boxes
• Import any kind of content into any kind of box - no need to switch box content type

Streamlined Tools with Familiar Keyboard Controls

Picking the right tool for the job is easy in QuarkXPress 8.

We've streamlined and simplified our Tools palette, so the tools do more and it's easier to choose the right one. Even familiar tools like the Item and Content tools get major boosts. For example, you can rotate any box simply by grabbing its corner.

You'll also enjoy single-key commands - consistent with familiar applications such as Photoshop® - to select tools, as well as keyboard modifiers for duplicating, scaling from center, and performing other common tasks.

By aligning with your other mission-critical tools, while keeping everything you love, QuarkXPress gives you the best of both worlds!

At a glance

• Use any box tool to draw a box without worrying about its content (an easy keyboard shortcut enables this for template creation)
• Select or switch tools using a single-letter command, or use traditional QuarkXPress keyboard shortcuts
• Double-click a box with the Item tool, and QuarkXPress automatically switches to the proper tool for the box type
• Grab a box corner to rotate without switching to another tool
• Scale from the center or duplicate with Option/Alt+drag
• Constrain an item's proportions while resizing by pressing the Shift key
• Transform multiple boxes in one action without grouping

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Return Policy

Computer Products for Education (‘CPE’) can accept returns on most items within 14 days of delivery for a full product refund provided that the product is unopened and that you have first obtained a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number prior to returning the product to CPE. Software that has been opened and is defective may be exchanged for a replacement item of the same title and platform only. If the return is a direct result of an error by CPE, CPE will pay the return shipping costs. Outside of 14 days from delivery, defective products must be returned directly to the manufactuer according to the manufacturer's warranty and cannot be returned to CPE.

Any product which includes the phrase 'No Returns' in the product description is not eligible to be returned and may only be exchanged if defective upon arrival.

A Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) number must ALWAYS accompany all returns. To obtain your RMA number, please call our customer service team at (800) 679-7007. Products returned without obtaining an RMA number may be REFUSED or subject to a 15% restocking fee at the discretion of CPE.

When returning items to CPE with a valid RMA number, you must ship via a traceable insurable carrier. We recommend using UPS or the U.S. Postal Service with tracking number/delivery confirmation and insurance on the shipment. Please use the original shipping box. All original product parts are required for return, including product packaging.

Due to manufacturer restrictions, we cannot accept returns of the following items:

• Any Autodesk, Avid, and Quark products that have been opened cannot be returned.
• Any item that has been discontinued by the manufacturer.
• Recordable CDs/DVDs, Ink Cartridges, Paper, or Toner for Fax Machines.
• Any item returned more than 20 days after delivery.
• Any item that is not in its original condition.
• Any item returned without a RMA number.
• Any item returned to locations other than the return shipping address specified by CPE upon issuance of the RMA number.

CPE is authorized by the manufacturers to sell products at educational discounts and must abide by the return policies set forth by the manufacturers.

If you have any questions concerning our Return Policy, please call our customer service team at 800-679-7007 or send and email to support@educational-software.com.