Precision Typography
Typography is an art form, and QuarkXPress® provides the tools you need to create powerful works of typographical art.
If you’re a perfectionist, QuarkXPress provides all of the tools you need to reach perfection.
If you’re not, QuarkXPress provides presets and default behaviours that make your work look professional even when you’re not paying attention to the details.
Linkster
NEW IN QUARKXPRESS 9!
Unlink and Relink Text Boxes without Overflow
Conditional Styles
NEW IN QUARKXPRESS 9!
Automatically Style Content Based on Powerful Styling Rules
Story Editor
NEW IN QUARKXPRESS 9!
Concentrate On Text Without the Distraction of Layout
Style Sheets
ENHANCED IN QUARKXPRESS 9!
Control and Update Text Style with Style Sheets
Glyphs Palette
Easily Access Any Character
The Glyphs palette provides instant visual access to any character in any font, including modern Unicode® and OpenType® fonts. You can insert any character into text by double-clicking or click-and-dragging. You can even save favorite characters for easy access.
Convert Text to Picture and Text Boxes
In QuarkXPress, you can select text — just a few characters, or even an entire paragraph — and convert it into boxes with a single command. Then you can fill the boxes with colours, an image, or even text.
Run Text Along a Complex Path
QuarkXPress lets you create any shape you can imagine with industry-standard Bézier tools — and then run text along that shape, with full typographic control.
Create Custom Kerning Pairs and Tracking Curves
You can use the automatic kerning table built into a font, or override it with your own kerning pair values. You can also create custom tracking curves that adjust the spacing between characters depending on the point size of the text.
Special Characters
Easily Access Any Special Character
QuarkXPress gives you multiple ways to insert special characters. You can use a Glyphs palette to view all of the characters in any font, and easily insert them into a document. You can use a menu item to insert invisible characters and other types of special characters. And QuarkXPress provides keyboard shortcuts for the most-often-used special characters.
Jabber
Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in a Snap
Do you need to fill a box with text just to see what the final layout will look like when the content is ready? QuarkXPress makes it easy with the Jabber command.
Create Custom H&J Specifications
The H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) feature lets you completely control the way words hyphenate (or prevent them from hyphenating at all). The H&J feature also provides complete control over the way text is justified. You can create multiple H&J settings and apply them to different paragraphs in the same text.
Take Advantage of Unicode and OpenType
With full support for Unicode and OpenType, QuarkXPress gives you easy access to swash characters, discretionary ligatures, alternate versions of characters, ordinals, alternate metrics, and many other font features.
Font Fallback
Deal Intelligently with Missing Fonts
The Font Fallback feature ensures that if a font is missing, a suitable alternate font is substituted — so instead of seeing boxes or question marks, you see characters.
Create Custom Underline Styles
You can create your own underline styles for text, with different widths, colours, shades, and offsets.
Make an Impression with Professional Text Formatting
QuarkXPress brought high-end typography to the desktop over two decades ago —and since then, it’s only been getting better. With QuarkXPress, you can make any typographical dream into a reality.
Apply Kerning and Tracking
The kerning and tracking features in QuarkXPress let you achieve perfect spacing between character pairs — automatically or manually, it’s up to you — and copyfit text by manipulating the space between every character in a word, line, or paragraph.
Plus:
- Font mapping
- Hyphenation exceptions
- Text find/change
- Hot-swappable user interface languages
- Custom text runaround
- Spellchecking and hyphenation in 38+ languages
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