Maintenance Release Demonstrates Commitment to Addressing User-Reported Issues
Quark Inc. today announced availability of the QuarkXPress 7.3
updater, a maintenance release of the industry-leading professional
design software. The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater provides new localized
user interfaces in European Portuguese, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian,
and Russian, increasing the number of languages supported by
QuarkXPress 7 to 18. In addition, this regularly scheduled 90-day
maintenance release addresses the most frequently reported issues
identified by QuarkXPress 7 users. The updater is available as a free
download at www.quark.com.
"Quark is pleased to empower users in Portugal, Finland, Croatia,
Hungary, and Russia in their pursuit of unmatched creativity and
productivity by providing QuarkXPress user interfaces in their native
languages," said Jurgen Kurz, Quark's senior vice president, desktop
business unit. "Equally important, we are committed to acting promptly
on issues that matter most to our customers by delivering free
maintenance releases every 90 days. I encourage customers to download
the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater to begin leveraging the supplemental
language features and enhancements of the updater today."
In addition to the new user interfaces in these five languages,
the updater includes hyphenation and spelling support for Ukrainian,
Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian,
Icelandic, and Slovak.
Commitment to customer feedback, incremental enhancements
The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater available today addresses the most
frequently reported issues identified by users since the original
release of QuarkXPress 7.
When comparing the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater against the Quark 7.2
updater released earlier this year, performance enhancements show:
-- Spellchecking--Up to 500% increased performance in spell
checking within text handling for Windows users.
-- Saving projects--Up to 75% faster operations when saving
documents on local and network drives; resolution to issues
when saving to network volumes or Mac OS Tiger.
-- Text handling--Up to 50% faster performance through enhanced
navigation and when typing within text-heavy documents.
-- Collection for output--Up to 40% performance improvement when
collecting for output.
The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater also includes enhancements to
collecting for output, multiple-copy output, and project file size.
The new Default PDF Output Styles feature, which requires no
additional set up, also adds more options for PDF output, including:
-- Press - High Quality/High Resolution
-- Print - Medium Quality/Medium Resolution
-- Screen - Medium Quality/Low Resolution
-- Screen - Low Quality/Low Resolution
-- PDF/X-1a: 2001 and
-- PDF/X-3:2002
To learn more about QuarkXPress 7 and how to purchase or upgrade
visit the Quark Web site. A fully functional 30-day evaluation version
of QuarkXPress 7 is available for download from
euro.quark.com/en/30days.
About Quark
Quark Inc. (euro.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. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.
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