
It’s aimed at designers, magazine, newspaper and book publishers and pre-press departments. QuarkXPress (QXP) 2015 shipped on 28 April and replaces QXP 10. When was it launched and what market is it aimed at? There are also HTML5 output features, mainly to generate ePub books and apps. It can generate printable PDF files that conform tightly to standards.
New users can purchase the software for $849, while current owners can upgrade from any previous version of $349.It’s a new version of the long-established design and layout program, widely used for professional print work by designers and pre-press users. There are also smaller additions and improvements, like a new orthogonal line tool, custom page sizes, and user-definable keyboard shortcuts. The fixed layout eBook format (ePub3 or Amazon's KF8), displays pixel-perfect layouts without the complexity and cost of creating native apps.
Users can create HTML5 fixed layout eBooks without any additional software or costs.
Fixed Layout eBooks with App-like Interactivity: QuarkXPress 2015 combines the best of reflowable eBooks (ePub) with interactive apps for a new digital output format. Text variables for automatically populating reoccurring fields – such as running headers. A new, faster table tool for Excel integration with table styles. Designer-controlled Automation: From the early days of style sheets, master pages, indexes and tables of content to more recent additions such as shared content, conditional styles and callouts, Quark has always focused on automation. The exported PDF/X-4 files are certified by the same technology used inside Adobe Acrobat. PDF/X-4 Output: By using this latest standard, designers can maintain transparency to enable smaller files, faster output and higher quality print output. Quark has also added multi-threading to the QuarkXPress text engine to further increase performance. 64-bit Architecture: QuarkXPress 2015 can now use all the RAM available on a user's computer to deliver performance improvements across the board from file handling and layout rendering to PDF export. There are also new automation tools, new options for ebooks, and more. QuarkXpress now has a 64-bit architecture, along with support for PDF/X-4 Output. This new release of QuarkXpress adds a number of new features to make the application faster and more powerful, including support for OS X Yosemite.