Comprehensive Feature List

Easy to Use

• Streamlined, Modern, Intuitive Interface
• Palette Sets
• Task-based Tools
• Libraries
• Multiple Views
• Learn Once for Multiple Channels
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Drag and Drop

Powerful Design Tools

• ShapeMaker NEW
• Cloner NEW
• Transparency and Drop Shadows
• Illustration (Bézier/Pen) Tools
• Clipping and Masking of Images
• Table Creation ENHANCED
• Picture Effects and Filters
• Layers
• Color Blends
• Easily Create and Apply Shapes to Any Content
• Guides and Grids
• Full Resolution Preview
• Space/Align and Distribution
• Super Step and Repeat
• Automatic Text Runaround
• Intelligent Scaling

Precision Typography

• Linkster NEW
• Conditional Styles NEW
• Bullets and Numbering NEW
• Story Editor NEW
• Hanging Characters
• Page Grids and Grid Styles
• Style Sheets ENHANCED
• East Asian Typography
• Glyphs Palette
• Convert Text to Picture and Text Boxes
• Text on a Path
• Professional Text Formatting
• Kerning and Tracking
• Create Custom Kerning Pairs and Tracking Curves
• Special Characters
• Jabber
• Create Custom Underline Styles
• Unicode and OpenType Support
• Customisable H&J (Hyphenation & Justification) Specifications
• Font Fallback
• Font Mapping
• Hyphenation Exceptions
• Text Find Change
• Hot-swappable user interface languages
• Custom Text Runaround
• Spellchecking and Hyphenation in 38+ languages

Integration with Other Applications

• Import and Manipulate Photoshop (PSD) Documents
• Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel (XLS, XLSX) ENHANCED
• Import Native Adobe^® Illustrator^® (AI) Files
• Import XML and Publishing Personalised Marketing Materials
• Import, Export, and Edit Text (DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, XTAGS)
• Import and Edit Almost Any Image File (EPS, GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, PostScript, TIFF)
• Enrich Web, SWF (Flash^®) and Digital Publishing Projects with Sound and Video (AVI, FLV, MOV, MP3, SWF)

Collaboration

• Composition Zones^®
• Job Jackets^®
• Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft Excel
• Shared Auxiliary Dictionaries
• Integration with QuarkCopyDesk^®

Layout Automation

• ImageGrid NEW
• Conditional Styles NEW
• Callouts NEW
• Job Jackets
• Synchronise Text, Pictures, and Formatting Automatically
• Books
• Lists
• Style Sheets
• Item Find/Change
• Item Styles
• AppleScript/part of Extending QuarkXPress page
• Master pages
• Import XML into QuarkXPress and Publish Personalised Marketing Materials
• Indexes
• Automatic page numbering

Reliable Print Output

• Job Jackets
• Soft Proofing
• Spot Inks (including PANTONE^® Matching System)
• Bleed and Registration Marks
• Configurable PDF Job Options
• Reusable Output Styles
• ICC Color Management
• Overprint Control

Digital Publishing

• App studio: NEW
• e-books: NEW

All purpose
• Learn Once for Multiple Channels
• Automatic Image Format Conversion
• Create Scripted Behaviors
• Layout Spaces
• Convert Print to Digital Publishing Formats (Web, SWF/Flash, e-books, tablets)
• Synchronise Text, Pictures, and Formatting Automatically

Interactive SWF (Flash) design
• Create SWF (Flash) Animations
• Add Video, Audio, and SWF (Flash)
• Easily Create Simple and Multi-state Buttons
• Include Page and Object Transitions
• Single-click Export of HTML and SWF (Flash)
• Video Conversion to FLV

Web
• Add Navigation Menus
• Add Hyperlinks and Anchors
• Add Meta Tag Sets
• Add Image Maps
• Build HTML Forms
• Embed Image Rollovers
• Export HTML Web pages
• Text-to-image Conversion