| Description | New Picture and Pen Tools - 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. See a visual preview as you crop an image and draw new illustrations with the redefined Bézier Pen tool. Easy Page Layout with Drag and Drop - Drag text and pictures from your desktop, Adobe® Bridge, iP® or any other application that supports drag and drop. Streamlined Tools with Familiar Keyboard Controls - New streamlined and simplified tools palette and item / content tools. Rotate any box simply by grabbing its corner. Enjoy single-key commands to select tools, as well as keyboard modifiers for duplicating, scaling from center and performing other common tasks. Design and Output Flash Directly from QuarkXPress - Create rich Flash® projects using the built-in Flash authoring capabilities - no additional purchase or coding required! Full support for all of the new typographic features, the improved illustration tool set, full integration with Item Styles and other features. Synchronize Content across Print, Web and Flash - QuarkXPress helps you maintain design consistency across media. Keep your headlines, body copy, images and vector art the same across multiple layouts and media types with no need for manual updates. Place a live, Interactive layout into a Web layout, designing the Flash elements and the rest of the page at the same time, in the same application. Flash for All - QuarkXPress 8 is the only page-layout application that gives you the ability to create rich Flash projects easily and without having to buy or use a separate application. Web and Interactive layouts lets anyone design across media. Create Stunning Text with Hanging Characters - Offers easy-to-use, precise and fully customizable control for hanging characters. Control the look of your text margin alignment by quickly applying preloaded or your own settings for Hanging Punctuation and Punctuation Margin Alignment. Design Grids/Advanced Baseline Grids - Design Grids gives you the power to organize the design of your text, offering unprecedented control over your baseline grid settings and a Grid Styles feature that can keep complex documents consistent. Snap and resize one grid to another. Unicode and OpenType Support - Supports the OpenType® font standard and Unicode® encodings that let you work with a massive range of special characters. Handles East Asian, Roman, Cyrillic, as well as an enhanced Glyph's palette and supports more than 20 new OpenType features for East Asian scripts. Work together with other design applications - Adds native Illustrator® file import, standardized tools, Adobe® Bridge and Photoshop® integration. Import or drag and drop an Illustrator file directly to your page or use the redefined illustration tool set to draw like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications. Rock Solid Output - Includes Output Styles and Quark® Job Jackets® that support major international output and advertising standards such as GWG PDF/X Plus. Follows industry standards for crop and bleed mark placement and supports import of PDF files that adhere to version 1.7 and earlier. Dictionaries and Hyphenation in More Than 30 Languages - New global file format, hyphenation and spelling capabilities. Also includes multiple-language user interfaces that can be switched at will, letting your team members work in the language they choose. High-Fidelity East Asian Layouts and Typography - Communicate in the dynamic markets of East Asia with support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean. |