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New Picture and Pen Tools

Integrate images into your layout quickly and seamlessly with QuarkXPress® 8.

Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool — no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image!

Draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool — just like you do in Illustrator® and other major graphics applications. Most importantly, you can focus on the task at hand because we’ve separated illustration tools from the tools you use for basic page-layout tasks.

At a glance

• Rotate and scale pictures directly with the new Picture Content tool, and preview cropping results as you work
• Grab box corners and rotate without switching to a different tool
• Draw with ease using new Bézier pen tools that follow graphics standards used by other professional creative applications
• Explore new text-to-box support for multiple lines, entire stories, and even multiple boxes, up to an entire spread
• When converting text to boxes, maintain the appearance of the text, including color, opacity, and most other text transformations
• Make the most of dedicated tools for layout and illustration tasks

Design and Output Flash (SWF) Directly from QuarkXPress

Page-layout professionals can create rich Flash® projects — without compromising design — using the built-in Flash authoring capabilities included in every edition of QuarkXPress® 8.

Working in the same, familiar print environment of QuarkXPress 8, you can take existing print jobs to Flash, or create new Flash projects, in minutes — no additional purchase or coding required! Interactive design in QuarkXPress 8 includes support for all of the new typographic features, the improved illustration (pen) tool set, full integration with Item Styles and other features, and support for more than 30 languages, including East Asian scripts. No other page-layout application gives you such advanced design capabilities that you can apply directly and easily to Flash design!

At a glance

• Use built-in Flash (SWF) creation, conversion, and export — no additional purchase required
• Leverage your existing print design skills through a common, redefined interface and tool set
• Output Flash files that support high-end typography features
• Create SWF files in more than 30 languages, including East Asian languages
• Make the most of rich design features including transparency, image manipulation effects, and robust illustration tools

Create Stunning Text and Achieve the Effects you Want with
Hanging Characters

QuarkXPress® 8 offers easy-to-use, precise, and fully customizable control for hanging characters. You can control the look of your text margin alignment by quickly applying preloaded settings for Hanging Punctuation and Punctuation Margin Alignment. And only QuarkXPress 8 offers the ability to apply your settings at the paragraph level, so settings don’t have to apply to an entire story. You can even include the hanging characters setting as part of a style sheet.

But our settings are just the beginning. You can build your own settings to precisely define the hang of any character you choose, including drop caps, to create the design effects that work for you.

At a glance

• Use Hanging Punctuation and punctuation margin alignment presets to achieve smooth-looking margins with little effort
• Customize settings to fit the exact needs of a specific design, font, or even character
• Define hanging character settings down to the paragraph level
• Integrate hanging character effects in style sheets
• Create custom hanging character classes, including settings for left side, right side, and when used as drop caps