Quark Announces Availability of Free QuarkXPress 7.3 Updater, Extending Support to Five Additional Languages
DENVER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 localised 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 http://euro.quark.com/en/products/xpress/73update.html.
"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 Jrgen 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:
* SpellcheckingUp to 500% increased performance in spell checking within text handling for Windows users.
* Saving projectsUp 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 handlingUp to 50% faster performance through enhanced navigation and when typing within text-heavy documents.
* Collection for outputUp 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. For a complete list of issues resolved in QuarkXPress 7.3, visit http://euro.quark.com/en/products/xpress/73issuesresolved.html.
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.
Quark and Quark related marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Quark Inc. and all applicable affiliated companies, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and in many other countries. All other marks are the properties of their respective owners.
Contacts
Quark Inc.
Northern Europe
Denise Duffy, +44 (0)870 734 6614
dduffy@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 Jrgen 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:
* SpellcheckingUp to 500% increased performance in spell checking within text handling for Windows users.
* Saving projectsUp 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 handlingUp to 50% faster performance through enhanced navigation and when typing within text-heavy documents.
* Collection for outputUp 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. For a complete list of issues resolved in QuarkXPress 7.3, visit http://euro.quark.com/en/products/xpress/73issuesresolved.html.
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.
Quark and Quark related marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Quark Inc. and all applicable affiliated companies, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and in many other countries. All other marks are the properties of their respective owners.
Contacts
Quark Inc.
Northern Europe
Denise Duffy, +44 (0)870 734 6614
dduffy@quark.com
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