Two QuarkXPress Upgrade Deadlines
If you haven’t yet upgraded to QuarkXPress 9, this is an important time to consider upgrading.
Quark has two promotional upgrades that are ending soon. If your QuarkXPress is at version 7 or earlier, JUNE 30 is important: after that you won’t be able to upgrade — you’ll have to pay full price for a copy of QuarkXPress 10 and you won’t get QuarkXPress 9. Until then, anyone with version 3-8 can upgrade for $349 and get QuarkXPress 10 free when it’s released this fall.
QuarkXPress 8 users have until August 30 to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 and get QuarkXPress 10 free when it’s released. After that you won’t be able to upgrade — you’ll have to pay full price for a copy of QuarkXPress 10 and you won’t get QuarkXPress 9.
Here’s a quote from Quark’s press release:
“Until June 30, 2013 anyone who purchases or upgrades to QuarkXPress 9 from ANY previous version will receive version 10 for free. After June 30, 2013 only QuarkXPress 8 users will be eligible to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 for a free upgrade to QuarkXPress 10. Also after June 30, QuarkXPress 3-7 users will no longer be eligible to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 or 10 and will to need to purchase new full licenses.”
You DEFINITELY want to upgrade to version 9 before this deadline, because version 10 WILL NOT OPEN QuarkXPress documents last saved by version 6 or earlier. (In other words, version 10 will only open documents saved by QuarkXPress 7 and higher.) You’re going to want to keep QuarkXPress 9 on your desktop so you can open those earlier files!
Here’s a chart provided by Quark that illustrates these offers (click to enlarge):
If you’re ready to upgrade, go to www.quark.com/Buy9Get10.
Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay writes regularly for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines and speaks at industry events.
Has anyone read ANYTHING about any new feature in Quark 10 ? All I’ve seen so far is what it will not do (open pre-7 files, run on Windows XP, …)
Olivier: Not yet, but keep an eye here. We’ll post news the minute Quark announces anything!
Hello,
Will a past user of Quark Express 7.01 be able to recognize and use the latest version without being retrained?
Thanks,
Eric
Can I use quark 7 on OS Mavericks, I have the quark 9 upgrade but I will have to load quark 7 first (I think)
thanks
debbie
Debbie: I don’t think you have to install an earlier version if you want to install version 9. You can always try installing 9, and if that fails, then consider your options. Quark’s customer service is really good these days, so you may want to contact them.
Eric: that depends on what you do with QuarkXPress. If your needs are simple page layout stuff (things you could do in old versions of QuarkXPress), you’ll find that things moved around a bit, but are now actually more efficient to use. Give yourself some time to get used to it. I may recommend having a look at my “QuarkXPress 8 Essential Training” video training at Lynda.com. Quark’s Big Interface Change came in version 8, so most of what I show is still correct.