QuarkXPress 8 Upgrade - Apple Store (U.S.)

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 Bzier 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 its 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...