Ten Best Features Of Quarkxpress

If you have ever used QuarkXPress for your brochure printing or newsletter printing, you know how powerful it is. If you have never used it, you should. It can help you make effective publications that not only achieve their objectives, but look good while doing it.

There are many features that make XPress a solid program. Let us go over 10 of the best ones.

1. Smart Transparency

In the past, you would often have to use a third party program to set the transparency for an individual item in a publication. That workaround is not necessary with the XPress smart transparency feature.

2. Composition Zones

If you are working on business brochures, or any other design, as part of a group, you will be very glad to have this feature. With the XPress composition zones, your entire team can work on a project over a network or over email and all changes are incorporated immediately and seamlessly.

3. Job Jackets

Many brochure printing jobs have detailed instructions that can get confusing. Worse still, you can lose track of the requirements as you are working. Job jackets help prevent this by keeping the exact specifications consistent throughout the project.

4. In The Layout Image Editing

QuarkXPress fully supports Adobe Photoshop files, so you can incorporate other components without any time consuming and frustrating conversions. Simply choose the image you want to include, and pop it in. It is as simple as that.

5. Palette Controls
When you have designed a palette configuration that you like, or that you will use again, you can save it. You can also group these palette templates together, making it simple to go back to a design that you liked. This makes large, multi-faceted projects easy to organize and less time consuming.

6. Versatile Typography

Using OpenType and Unicode, XPress makes font and character settings easy. You can apply advanced ligatures, extended character sets, and alternate characters quickly and easily.

7. Shared Content

Remember the days when you had to make a change on every page and layout in the project? Well, those days are over. With the shared content feature, any text or graphics changes that you make are instantly incorporated throughout your project.

8. Advanced Color Management

QuarkXPress offers more color management features than ever before. Best of all, your changes are automatically shared, updated, and maintained among all users on your project.

9. PDF/X Production

You no longer have to worry about complying with regulations. XPress makes it easy to guarantee PDF/X production right from the get go, and these documents will always adhere to regulations.

10. Multi Channel Rich Content Publishing

Take one file, and from it you can produce print, HTML, and XML content without any conversions or repurposing!