Quark announces XPress 8

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A new version of Quark’s XPress layout program was announced on the first day of the Drupa printing exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany. XPress 8 builds on the major revisions to the user interface and underlying structures introduced in XPress 7 in 2006. The company says that it worked with designers to analyse usage, and concluded that the new tools needed to be easier to access and use by visual adjustment rather than using numerical adjustment menus. For instance, the drop shadows introduced as part of XPress 7’s transparency suite can now be adjusted by live dragging rather than typing in offset measurements. ...cont´d

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