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QuarkXPress 9 is due to ship later this month, promising more contextual automation to simplify the creation of complex documents. For example, a new feature can automatically apply styles to text, based on sophisticated rules and a new tool lets you create complex shapes without having to draw them by hand. The new version of QuarkXPress offers nearly a dozen enhancements of that nature.
A major new capability lets you export documents to ePub format for the creation of e-books. QuarkXPress 9 understands the issues inherent in creating ePub files, and provides a good tool for doing so.
Quark has also promoted a new feature called App Studio, which lets you create publications for distribution through an iPad app, using Apple’s in-app purchasing capability to manage single-issue and subscription sales. This feature isn’t part of the QuarkXPress 9.0 test drive that launched earlier today or the final 9.0 version that Quark will release on April 26th. Rather, Quark says App Studio will be included in a free upgrade to version 9 that is expected to ship by August.
QuarkXPress 8.0 is available at an educational discount price of $199.95.
Customers who buy QuarkXPress 8 between January 1, 2011 and April 30, 2011 qualify for a free upgrade to QuarkXPress 9!
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