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QuarkXPress 2018 is Coming May 16, 2018

March 1, 2018March 2, 2018LearnNo Comments

Denver, CO – 3/1/2018 – Quark announced today the upcoming availability of QuarkXPress 2018, the next new full version of Quark’s graphic design and page layout software. Coming on May 16, 2018, QuarkXPress 2018 will bring designers and creative professionals new powerful typography, print and digital publishing features necessary to meet daily creative and productivity demands.

Over the past three years, Quark has added major features and functionality to QuarkXPress – and QuarkXPress 2018 is no exception. The top user-requested features combined with a host of industry-leading functionality makes QuarkXPress the best version ever.

What’s New in QuarkXPress 2018?

The new features and functionality in QuarkXPress 2018 fall into a few main categories: unsurpassed typography, professional print and digital publishing, streamlined user interface (UI), and customer wish list features.

UNSURPASSED TYPOGRAPHY

First-Class OpenType Controls: Rather than hide OpenType options in multiple submenus, OpenType is now easier to access, use, and control.

Color Fonts Support: QuarkXPress 2018 is the first layout application that fully supports Color Fonts. (Emoji icons on smart phones are examples of color fonts.) QuarkXPress supports Color Fonts in SVG, SBIX and COLR formats and can be used in print, PDF, and digital outputs.

Upgraded Font Listing: Font listing has been overhauled to help designers make the best typographic choices. Font Family and available Font Styles (Roman, Bold, etc.) are now listed in two separate combinations and can be mapped to the type styles buttons P/B/I in the palettes and dialog.

Hyphenation Strictness Levels: Choose between five hyphenation strictness levels – for example, hyphenate everywhere it’s grammatically correct or only hyphenate compound words. Select the strictness level that is best for the publication – or decide for each individual paragraph.

PROFESSIONAL PRINT PUBLISHING

Direct InDesign® IDML Import: With more and more InDesign users switching to QuarkXPress, it was time to make it even easier to migrate. The new native InDesign IDML Import in QuarkXPress 2018 converts InDesign IDML documents directly into the QuarkXPress format.

callas® PDF Print Engine: The best PDF technology on the market – the callas PDF engine containing Adobe’s PDF Libraries – means higher-quality PDFs, PDF/X and PDF/A, driven by two of the best PDF technology providers.

Tagged/Accessible PDF: Accessibility compliant PDFs are not just important but often mandatory. HTML5 is an obvious choice; however often workflows require accessible PDFs. The new PDF engine, combined with new tools for accessibility, make this possible.

Built-in modern JavaScript based on V8: Scriptability and extensibility have always been core values of QuarkXPress. Write cross platform JavaScripts (build on modern ECMAScript ES6+) to automate repetitive tasks and access capabilities beyond the user interface. Go further by modifying layout objects using the QuarkXPress document object model (DOM API) that is very similar to the HTML DOM. Use it to, for example, convert all typed URLs to active hyperlinks or to change text using regular expressions (GREP).

UNLIMITED DIGITAL PUBLISHING

Create Android Single Apps: QuarkXPress 2018 expands on the ability to create unlimited iOS single apps by adding support for creating unlimited single apps for Android devices – completely free, directly from the desktop, no server, no login, no additional cost.*
*Google Play Store Developer Account required, which requires associated costs.

HTML5 Export Optimizations: HTML5 Publications and ePub now export even more items as native HTML5 elements. This includes support for type styles (Outline, Shadow), Tables as HTML tables, Anchored text boxes, grouped boxes and Tables, non-solid rules, footnote separators and Index entries as Hyperlinks.

Digital Preview Improvements: New responsive HTML5 Preview options are available when authoring in QuarkXPress 2018, including: Page Preview, Layout Preview, Project Preview.

Grouped Items Interactivity: Add interactivity, for example, Buttons, Animations, Audio and Video to groups.

STREAMLINED USER INTERFACE

Powerful User Interface: Windows users now benefit from a new powerful measurement palette that offers access to all attributes of QuarkXPress items and typography without obstructing the layout. Instant preview (with the ability to apply and revert). And all shortcut commands remain the same!

Vertical Measurement Palette: A powerful new floating measurement palette provides access to all controls and attributes, is keyboard addressable, and includes all previous shortcut keys. Remember old modal CMD+M dialog? It’s also scrollable with easy-to-read labels. (macOS only)

EVEN MORE WISH LIST FEATURES

  • Digital-to-Print Conversion (Digital First Workflow)
  • Span Footnotes over Columns
  • Different frames for each side of a box
  • 10 to 1000% Print Scaling
  • Flip Groups
  • And more…

Buy QuarkXPress 2017, Get QuarkXPress 2018 FREE
and Special Pre-order Offer

Buy or upgrade to QuarkXPress 2017 now and receive QuarkXPress 2018 completely FREE when it arrives on May 16 this year! All QuarkXPress users on versions 3-10, 2015 and 2016 as well as those purchasing the Competitive Upgrade are eligible for the Buy QuarkXPress 2017, Get QuarkXPress 2018 promotion. Customers who already own QuarkXPress 2017 can pre-order the QuarkXPress 2018 upgrade and save 15% in March, 10% in April and 5% in May until QuarkXPress 2018 arrives. All pre-order customers will be among the first to receive the new release a few days before it is publicly available.

QuarkXPress 2017 and the QuarkXPress 2018 pre-order upgrade are available for purchase through the Quark Store, from our Quark telesales team or from any of our Authorized Resellers.

Learn more about the offer: www.quark.com/2018

Matthias Gilke

Webinar showing major features of QuarkXPress 2018

March 1, 2018March 3, 2018QuarkXPress 2018, Video TutorialNo Comments

Quark today announced the upcoming Version 2018, the next major version of QuarkXPress.

In this 39 min long webinar, I am showing the highlights of QuarkXPress 2018, like Color Fonts, JavaScript based on V8, Hyphenation Strictness, the new PDF Engine, PDF/A export, creating tagged PDF, unlimited Android Single App creation and more:

https://youtu.be/y7nj6qyTGLw

QuarkXPress 2018 Webinar (39 minutes)

QuarkXPress 2018 will be officially released on May 16, 2018.

 

Matthias Guenther

Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people. Before joining Quark in 1997, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represented Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.

From 1997 until 2019 Matthias played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop, mobile and enterprise software. From February 2014 until January 2019 he headed Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit; and was therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.

Matthias does not work for Quark anymore. If you want to connect with him, please visit his LinkedIn profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguenther/

https://twitter.com/HamburQ

Color Fonts – the next big thing in typography

February 24, 2018March 23, 2018Font, QuarkXPress 2018, TypographyNo Comments

Since the introduction of OpenType fonts, there hasn’t been a big change in typography. Until color fonts emerged. Their birth probably was in 2010 when Apple added colorful emoji, which we all have been using since on our mobile.

However – due to the lack of color fonts – designers have always been using colorful fonts; mostly by taking an existing font and converting it to boxes and then changing its shape, its outline, adding colors or blends. So they weren’t fonts anymore but looked like type.

“Stroke text” is another use case where designers add a colorful border to live text, often also even dashed or stripped. And working around the issue that kerning and overlapping suddenly needed to be adjusted.

If you want to read more color fonts (or chromatic type) – which are not new; the first production types appeared in the 1840 – then read  more about it here: https://ilovetypography.com/2017/04/03/the-evolution-of-chromatic-fonts/

Color fonts save time!

“For designers, Color Fonts are gold!

Think of the time you had to spend in the past taking a plain font shape and then running it through lots of filters and other steps to get a chiseled look; brush strokes, wood, etc.

Now you just type!”

– Kurt Lang, JKL Studios, when pre-release testing color fonts in QuarkXPress 2018

Color fonts represent a key evolution in typography. They add rich graphic features into font files. And as they behave like standard fonts, once design applications support them, they are easy to use and easily accessible for millions of creatives.

And they are fun!

Color fonts can impact any type of text, can contain multiple colors, shades, textures, blends and transparency. And even animations (ok, now that’s hard to print ;-)

Are there different formats for color fonts?

Yes. There are four different formats and some formats support both vector and bitmap:

Color Font formatBitmap?Vector?Format?
Apple SBIX✔Proprietary
Google CBDT✔Proprietary
Microsoft COLR✔Based on OpenType
W3C SVG
(OpenType SVG)
✔✔Based on OpenType

All modern browsers support some format of color fonts, but not all. For example, Google’s CBDT is only available in Chrome on Android.

Which creative pro applications for print design support Color Fonts?

Full support in Illustrator CC 2018, Photoshop CC 2018 and QuarkXPress 2018

Photoshop CC 2017 was the first application to support bitmap color fonts. With the release Photoshop CC 2018 also vector color fonts are supported.

Illustrator CC 2018 is the first version of Illustrator to support color fonts, both vector and bitmap.

And QuarkXPress 2018 is the first version of QuarkXPress to fully supports color fonts, both bitmap and vector; in the formats SVG, SBIX and COLR.

Experimental support in InDesign

InDesign CC 2018 added experimental color font support, Adobe calls it a “technology preview feature”. According to a blog entry from Adobe there seems to be output issues with Color Fonts in InDesign: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/ot-svg-color-fonts.html

Color Font format support by application

ApplicationOpenType SVG VECTOROpenType SVG BITMAPApple SBIXMicrosoft COLR
(last updated March 14, 2018)
Adobe Illustrator CC 2018✅ – YES✅ – YES✅ – YES❌ – No
Adobe InDesign CC 2018💤 Experimental💤 Experimental💤 Experimental❌ – No
Adobe Photoshop CC 2018✅ – YES✅ – YES✅ – YES❌ – No
Affinity Designer 1.6❌ – No❌ – No❌ – No❌ – No
Affinity Photo 1.6❌ – No❌ – No❌ – No❌ – No
Pixelmator 3.7❌ – No✅ – YES✅ – YES❌ – No
QuarkXPress 2018✅ – YES✅ – YES✅ – YES✅ – YES

Can I use them in Print and Web?

Yes. In digital publishing (browsers, apps), color fonts have been around for a while. We all use them (e.g. emoticons).

In Print – if the application fully supports it – color fonts can be used too, colors are RGB and can be color managed using ICC-based color management. Similar to how an RGB image is color managed.

Where can I get some color fonts?

Here are some 100+ sample color fonts to download:

The Typodermic Color Font Experiment

Please read their license agreement first.

More fonts can be found here:

https://creativemarket.com/blog/color-fonts

Enjoy!

More background info

  • http://colorfonts.wtf/
  • https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/mt765165(v=vs.85).aspx
  • https://helpx.adobe.com/typekit/using/ot-svg-color-fonts.html
  • https://pixelambacht.nl/2014/multicolor-fonts/
  • https://blog.fontlab.com/font-tech/color-fonts/color-font-format-proposals/

The article “Color Fonts – the next big thing in typography” appeared first on planetquark.com

 

Matthias Guenther

Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people. Before joining Quark in 1997, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represented Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.

From 1997 until 2019 Matthias played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop, mobile and enterprise software. From February 2014 until January 2019 he headed Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit; and was therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.

Matthias does not work for Quark anymore. If you want to connect with him, please visit his LinkedIn profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguenther/

https://twitter.com/HamburQ

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