All the bells and whistles
QuarkXPress 7 boasts 160 new, innovative features. Take control of transparency with total independence. Create visually stunning graphics from within QuarkXPress 7 no need to switch to another application. Use the revolutionary Composition Zones™ functionality to collaborate with multiple users anywhere in the world on the same layout at the same time. Optimize your production workflows with new Job Jackets™ technology. Work faster with a streamlined user interface and dynamic design tools.

QuarkXPress Passport® software is a complete, fully-functioning version of QuarkXPress® that includes additional features for multilingual publishing. QuarkXPress Passport supports hyphenation and spell-checking for 23 languages

QuarkXPress Passport features include:

>> Translated user interface : With a click of the mouse, you can display the user interface (commands such as Save and Print) in any of the following 11 languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (international and U.S.), French, German (including Reformed German), Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss-German, and Turkish.
>> Complete, localized documentation as PDF files : User manuals and documentation are available in all supported languages as PDF files. These files are included on the QuarkXPress 7 application CD-ROM.

Top 10 Features
-- Smart transparency
-- Revolutionary Composition Zones
-- Quark Job Jackets
-- In-the-layout image editing
-- Superior palette controls
-- Versatile typography with OpenType and Unicode
-- Shared content
-- Advanced color management
-- Easy PDF/X production
-- Multi-channel rich-content publishing
A detailed list of QuarkXPress features

>> Basic functionality and navigation
- Unify major functionality in a single location with tabbed Measurements palette
- Apply colors with a single action from Measurements palette
- Use keyboard shortcuts to tab through Measurements palette
- Use improved space/align controls on the Measurements palette
- Create tabs quickly and accurately with new Measurements palette controls and guides
- Save screen real estate by using palette groups and sets
- Organize your workspace with palette smart snapping
- Switch image alpha channels on the fly from Measurements palette
- Open and edit QuarkXPress Passport® files with single-language versions of QuarkXPress
- Apply language settings at the character level
- Retain picture attributes when replacing pictures
- Create smaller files with new optimized file format
- Identify layer items with layer colors
- Set EPS preview preference
- Take advantage of improved locking, including position locking and content locking
- Take advantage of a 30-day evaluation period to experiment with fully functioning software
- Display images at the file's full resolution to scale or magnify images with minimal pixelation and to position page elements more precisely
- Change document display from 10% to 800% (maximum percentage for Windows version may vary depending on monitor resolution)
- Size and position items manually or by using precise coordinates
- Nudge items 1 point or .1 point using arrow keys
- Run text around a picture's subject matter including inside the "holes" of a picture's subject matter
- Add QuarkXTensions® and XTensions® modules - software created by Quark and third-party developers that expand the user interface and capabilities of QuarkXPress
- Manage which QuarkXTensions or XTensions sets will be active when you launch using XTensions Manager
- Use the Scripts menu to choose from a wide variety of default AppleScript® scripts, or add your own scripts to customize and automate QuarkXPress (Mac OS® only)
- Create documents up to 2,000 pages long, or 2 gigabytes in size
- Use multiple undo/redo capability for actions, including Import Text, Import Picture, Crop to Box, linking and unlinking text boxes, and many functions in the Layers palette
- Take advantage of some new and reorganized menus and commands
- Access Find/Change controls from a movable palette for convenient text editing during search and replace
- Activate a context menu on pages or items to access context-sensitive options
- Display visual indicators to identify Web items and their attributes
- View actual page numbers or "absolute" page numbers in a sectioned document in the Page Layout palette
- View multiple spreads simultaneously
- Take advantage of live scrolling and dragging
- Work with full support for Danish, Dutch, International English, U.S. English, French, German, German (Reformed), Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss-German when you purchase QuarkXPress Passport
- Use spell check in various languages with QuarkXPress Passport
- Use hyphenation dictionaries for various languages when publishing in multiple languages with QuarkXPress Passport
- Run under the operating system for any one of the supported languages
- Save documents in single-language or multiple-language format with QuarkXPress Passport
- Exchange single-language documents with single-language versions of QuarkXPress
- Create book files consisting of multiple QuarkXPress files for efficient network-based construction of long documents
- Synchronize style sheets, colors, H&Js, lists, and line/frame styles among documents that are part of a book
- Generate a table of contents or index across an entire book

>> Layout, design, and graphics management
- Apply individual opacity settings at the color level to text, box backgrounds, frames, lines, blend colors, etc.
- Support alpha channels in imported images
- Control layer opacity and blending mode of imported PSD files
- Automatically flatten with resolution control
- Export transparent PNG images from Web layouts
- Apply soft drop shadows to page items
- Skew, offset, and scale drop shadows
- Synchronize drop shadow angles throughout the layout
- Create text runaround from drop shadows
- Use independent or inherited item opacity and shadow opacity
- Knock out drop shadow with item
- Multiply drop shadow to combine drop shadows with objects below the shadow
- Synchronize boxes, pictures, text, and lines
- Synchronize attributes (color, transformations, picture effects, styles, etc.)
- Work in single-layout mode to simplify file naming
- Append layouts within projects for easy content sharing
- Export layouts into individual files or save them as an earlier version
- Use split window view
- Display multiple windows for the same layout
- Use native transparency and drop shadows in Web layouts
- Import Shockwave® Flash™ (SWF) files for interactivity in Web pages
- Export vector objects and text as SWF from Web layouts
- Improve anti-aliasing on graphic export for Web layouts
- Benefit from superior smoothing with the new graphics engine
- Export anti-aliased graphics from Web layout
- Render shapes and rotate text more smoothly with the new graphics engine
- Apply Blur and Diffuse to alpha mask
- Integrate image formatting with shared content feature
- Edit contrast curves numerically
- Integrate alpha mask with existing layer opacity and blending mode features
- Control content flow by linking text cells within a table or linking tables to each other
- Create synchronized headers and footers for tables
- Split tables within a page or across pages
- Rotate tables
- Automatically resize cells in tables
- Automatically select all even rows, even columns, odd rows, or odd columns in tables for quick formatting
- Group tables to other items
- Use independent transparency settings for table, cells, borders, and content
- Script table rows, columns, and gridlines with AppleScript
- Create single-sided or facing-page print documents
- Share specifications such as style sheets, colors, H&Js, and lists among layout spaces (a collection of layouts that reside in the same project)
- Use layout-wide layers (similar to clear plastic overlays) to organize items
- Convert selected text to a table or convert a table to text while maintaining anchored pictures
- Combine and split table cells to create a complex table layout
- Merge multiple items to form one composite box
- Draw five standard picture box and text box shapes
- Convert text into Bézier-outline box and fill with a picture or text
- Create scalable, custom dash or stripe styles for use with lines and frames or choose from 11 default dash and stripe styles
- Automatically create and place rules above and below paragraphs
- Anchor picture boxes, text boxes, lines, and rules to flow with text including non-rectangular or Bézier-shaped items or groups of items
- Anchor tables in text boxes or other tables
- Convert a table to a group of boxes that can be moved, rotated, reshaped, and more
- Define tabbing order between cells
- Resize table columns and rows numerically or by dragging
- Maintain table size while resizing table elements
- Create documents for the Web or for printed output
- Use consolidated preferences to quickly set document and application preferences within the same dialog box
- Export tables as HTML tables from Web documents
- Save files as write-protected templates
- Automatically save and make backups of documents
- Automatically save library changes
- Import style sheets, colors, line and frame styles, H&Js, and lists from other documents
- Edit items on master pages for global changes
- Edit master items locally in the document for special-case pages
- Create multiple-page spreads (gatefolds) in print documents
- Select from three automatic page insertion options, or insert pages manually
- Insert, delete, and move multiple pages
- Drag pages within and between documents
- Apply the color of "none" to cells and gridlines for placing a table over graphic elements
- Draw Bézier picture boxes, text boxes, lines, and text paths using point-by-point tools or freehand tools
- Convert boxes to lines and vice versa
- Change traditionally shaped items into Bézier items and vice versa
- Convert text boxes to picture boxes and vice versa
- Change Bézier lines to text paths and vice versa
- Rearrange the stacking order of layers
- Send items to the front or back of their layer or one level forward or backward within the layer
- Snap items to guides, and define your own "snap to" distance
- Scale box contents (text or picture) while resizing the box
- Resize groups of items, with the option to scale all picture contents, text contents, frame widths, and line weights
- Number and renumber pages automatically
- Divide a single document into independently numbered sections
- Specify "Continued on" and "Continued from" page numbers that update automatically
- Link text boxes to create a story
- Use automatic text boxes with auto page insertion to avoid manual creation of multi-page text chains for books and other long documents
- Rotate lines or boxes with their content in .001 degree increments
- Skew pictures, text, boxes, and lines
- Specify line widths from hairline to 864 points in .001-point increments
- Apply color and shade to box or table cell backgrounds, lines, gridlines, frames, and gaps in non-solid lines and frames
- Paste low-resolution pictures into boxes to embed them in the document, or import high- and low-resolution pictures to link the original picture files to the document
- List all pictures in a document, and display each picture file's full path, file size, modification date, dimensions, and color depth
- Import pictures in most Mac OS and Windows formats
- Automatically update modified pictures
- Update all modified images in a document using a modifier key
- Create editable clipping paths based on white areas, an alpha channel, or an embedded path
- Invert any clipping path
- Remove a picture from its bounding box
- Apply color and shade to 1-bit and grayscale pictures
- Convert color pictures to grayscale or grayscale pictures to line art during import
- Scale, crop, rotate, and skew pictures
- Scale a picture to fit its box or resize a box to fit a picture
- Position pictures manually or numerically
- Control contrast of a grayscale bitmap picture or for each channel of a color bitmap picture
- Control OPI swapping on a picture-by-picture basis
- Group items so they can be selected, moved, rotated, resized, or modified as a single item
- Automatically control alignment and space between multiple items
- Lock or unlock single or grouped items on a page
- Lock or unlock all items on a given layer
- Automatically create and position multiple duplicates of items

>> Printing and production
- Use Composition Zones™ technology to share layouts among multiple projects and workstations with live updates
- Use Composition Zones technology to design simultaneously in multiple media types or layout sizes
- Use Composition Zones technology to divide a page for collaborative design
- Synchronize design settings (among multiple users)
- Synchronize color management settings (among multiple users)
- Initiate jobs from tickets with built-in production settings
- Customize preflighting and automatically evaluate layout at output, open, save
- Access Job Jackets™ Manager for advanced users such as printers, who can provide Job Jackets to clients
- Use JDF-compatible settings
- Send real-time updates on all Job Jacket settings to layouts
- Use always-on, always profile-based color management
- Automatically monitor profile detection
- Bundle key settings of source and output setups for color management
- Use casual and advanced modes for color management
- Easily soft proof files on-screen
- Simulate various output devices on-screen, such as grayscale
- Embed CMM preferences in layouts
- Use LogoSync for black point compensation
- Color manage whole workgroups with live updates via Quark Job Jackets files
- Use presets for major color management standards
- Color manage non-destructive image color correction
- Color manage vector EPS and PDF files
- Emulate color transformations of previous versions of QuarkXPress via ICC profiles
- Access numerous additional advanced settings for color management
- Create, share, and use PDF Output styles
- Use preset standard PDF styles for typical workflows
- Gain support for PDF/X 1-a and PDF/X 3
- Export PDF with JDF
- Evaluate PDF/X criteria during layout
- Verify based on standard Callas libraries
- Create smaller PDF file size through optimization and preset use
- Embed fonts in EPS files
- Export multiple pages as separate EPS, PDF, or DCS files
- Take advantage of Print Layout dialog box enhancements
- Use always-on preview in the Print dialog box
- Improved output styles for PDF and EPS
- Output JDF
- Support in-RIP workflows
- Use PostScript 3 smooth shading
- Get output enhancements for EPS and PPML output
- Specify print layout sizes ranging from 1" x 1" to 48" x 48"
- Choose from eight measurement systems for print layouts, including agates for classified ads
- Export print layout pages in PDF format
- Save pages as EPS picture files
- Create "multi-ink" colors that consist of user-specified percentages of any number of inks
- Choose rendering intents to indicate to the Color Management Module what color properties it should preserve when it performs color translations for RGB, CMYK, and Hexachrome® colors
- Output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without third-party software
- Use As Is Color Space to allow print devices to handle color conversion (rather than QuarkXPress) for optimum color
- Output blends, multi-inks, colorized TIFFs, and other items as composite color while retaining spot color information suitable for in-RIP separations
- Take advantage of a Layers tab in the Print dialog box for outputting specific layers
- View a display of inks used in a layer
- Override Suppress Output settings for individual items on a layer without modifying them in the layout
- Create reusable print styles for common print settings
- Trap colors automatically or on an object-by-object basis (choke, spread, knockout, or overprint)
- Specify the shade at or above which an object color will overprint its background color
- Print individual plates for spot and process colors
- Control screen frequency, angle, and dot function separately for each plate
- Specify line frequency, screen angle, and dot function for grayscale pictures
- Print spot and process color separations of EPS graphics
- Use high-fidelity color compatibility to reduce the need for spot colors
- Separate RGB pictures into high-fidelity color space for minimal loss in gamut
- Separate RGB pictures into process color space
- Create two-color blends (gradients), including blending to None for a transparent effect, for box backgrounds in six patterns
- Create process and spot colors using any of these color models: HSB, RGB, CMYK, LAB, PANTONE®, PANTONE® Hexachrome®, FOCOLTONE®, TRUMATCH™, and Japanese color systems TOYO and DIC
- Create default and project-specific colors
- Predict color using ICC-based color management from Apple ColorSync (Mac OS only) or Kodak (Windows® or Mac® OS)
- Specify picture sources, device profiles, and color management preferences using the full suite of controls in QuarkCMS™ QuarkXTensions software
- Automatically learn which item is causing a printing problem using the Quark PostScript error handler
- Preview how your page will be positioned on the selected output medium
- Print a non-continuous range of pages
- Print actual size, percentage of actual size, and thumbnails
- Print oversized documents in automatically or manually tiled pieces
- Print spreads as continuous output
- Print registration marks centered, off center, or at user-defined offsets
- Create bleeds by extending items beyond page boundaries, and select from three options to specify bleed distance from page edges
- Suppress printout of any item
- Control output of OPI comments for TIFF and EPS picture formats individually
- Select normal or low-resolution printing modes
- Suppress or enable picture printout, either individually or on a layout-wide basis
- Print TIFFs at printer resolution to non-PostScript printers
- Print master pages
- After being automatically notified that pictures are missing, re-import those picture files at the start of a print job
- Send print information in binary, ASCII, or Clean 8-bit format
- Collect any print layout and its high-resolution picture files, fonts, and color profiles in a folder for delivery to a service bureau
- Automatically generate an electronic report containing all the information a service bureau needs to print your document, including information about required XTensions software

>> Text processing
- Use OpenType font features including:
- Standard and discretionary ligatures
- Cross-platform support for ligatures
- Ligatures on-the-fly
- Ordinals
- Titling alternates
- All small caps
- Fractions
- Swashes
- Contextual alternates
- Proportional Figures
- Tabular Figures
- Oldstyle Figures
- Lining Figures
- Superscript and subscript
- Numerator and denominator
- Case-sensitive forms and capital spacing
- Historical forms
- Kern
- Ornaments
- Scientific inferiors
- Cross-stream ("vertical") kerning pairs
- OpenType styling support in Find/Change
- OpenType styling support in XPress Tags
- OpenType Kerning Preference
- Glyphs palette
- Insert Invisibles from Glyphs palette or Utilities menu
- New glyphs for invisible characters
- Font fallback to find correct font for unsupported characters
- Find related alternate glyphs through the alternate glyph window in the Glyphs palette
- Store and access favorite glyphs
- Insert special characters from a menu
- Access style sheets through any character attribute location, including Measurements palette
- Revert paragraph attributes without removing local character formatting
- Change Case
- New default values for standard H&Js
- Five new default H&Js including "No Hyphenation"
- Paragraph rules can be set at "Column" length
- Synchronize text to edit once and see the change reflected simultaneously in corresponding text across all layout spaces
- Export text in a variety of text formats
- Import text from XPress Tags and ASCII formats and from RTF on Windows
- Import text with style sheets from Microsoft® Word and WordPerfect documents
- Tag words for a four-level nested index or a two-level run-in index with cross-references
- Automatically generate formatted index from tagged words according to punctuation preferences
- Create formatted tables of contents and other paragraph or character style sheet-based lists automatically
- Display the QuarkXPress interface in any one of the supported languages for QuarkXPress Passport
- Automatically hyphenate text in each language used in a QuarkXPress Passport layout
- Perform language-specific spell checking for each language used in a QuarkXPress Passport layout
- Drag and drop text within a layout or, on Windows, drag and drop text files directly from any Windows file list into a layout
- Generate word counts for stories and layout
- Automatically type "fi" and "fl" pairs as ligatures, while maintaining the ability to edit text, Find/Change text, hyphenate, and check spelling as usual
- Automatically convert straight quotes and inch marks into typographer's quotes while entering or importing text
- Create automatic drop caps up to 16 lines in height
- Create hanging indents using the "Indent Here" character
- Break paragraphs and columns using special characters such as "New line," "Next column," and "Next box"
- Choose among a wide variety of breaking and non-breaking dashes, hyphens, and spaces
- Find/change text and specific attributes — including fonts, style sheets, and text color — in a single story or a whole layout
- Use built-in spelling dictionary along with user-defined dictionaries to check spelling
- Check the spelling of a single word, a story, a selection of text, or an entire layout
- Use the Automatic Word Lookup feature to check spelling
- Create interaction in Web pages and PDF files using hyperlinks and anchors
- Apply color and shade to text
- Create and apply paragraph style sheets
- Create and apply character style sheets for faster local text formatting
- Embed character style sheets in paragraph style sheets for consistent formatting
- Horizontally or vertically scale text from 25% to 400% of normal width or height
- Scale text proportionally while resizing a text box with the mouse
- Kern and track text in .001 increments
- Edit tracking and kerning tables individually for each font without altering font files
- Prevent a subhead from separating from the lines of a paragraph with the "Keep with Next" feature
- Control widow and orphan lines by specifying the minimum number of lines that can break from a paragraph across a column
- Specify left, centered, right, justified, and forced paragraph alignment
- Vertically align text (top, centered, bottom, or justified) within a box
- Control the text inset for each edge of a text box
- Control spacing before and after paragraphs
- Automatically align text baselines across columns
- Specify absolute leading in .001-point increments, or specify leading based on font size
- Specify left indent, right indent, and first line indent
- Apply custom hyphenation settings to individual paragraphs
- Insert discretionary hyphens to control hyphenation on a case-by-case basis
- Create multiple hyphenation and justification (H&J) specifications
- Save hyphenation exceptions with a layout
- Specify the maximum number of consecutive hyphens allowed
- Control hyphenation of capitalized words
- Specify minimum word size to hyphenate and the minimum number of characters before and after a hyphen
- Specify optimum, minimum, and maximum word and character spacing for justified text
- Select from six tab alignment options
- Place tabs numerically or manually
- Specify tab fill characters (such as dot leaders), including two-character fills
- Place a right tab stop flush with right indent regardless of established tab stops
- Base automatic runaround path on a picture's white areas, its box, an alpha channel, an embedded path, or a clipping path
- Automatically run text around non-rectangular boxes to match their shape
- Edit text runaround paths using Bézier tools

>> Web page design
- Export Web layouts in HTML format
- Export Web layout pictures in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format
- Create two-position rollovers from images or text boxes
- Create and apply secondary menus that display when the cursor is held over a primary menu
- Easily create page-to-page hyperlinks
- Create Web forms to collect and track information using as many as eight types of form controls
- Create rectangular, oval, and Bézier image maps
- Specify font families for cascading style sheets
- Quickly create form boxes by changing the content of an existing box to Form, place a form on a layer, or create form boxes in table cells
- Engage HTML Preview and Export from the context menu
- Use the Append feature to add hyperlinks associated with URLs to a layout
- Use the Hyperlinks palette to specify how hyperlinks and anchors are displayed
- Create rollovers for a Web page
- View the active Web layout in different Web browsers — before you actually export it as HTML-

>> PPML, XML, and media-independent publishing
- Export PPML for custom printing
- Use PPML consumers/output style
- Import XML for variable data
- Extract QuarkXPress content and store it in XML format
- Import/export XML without the need for a DTD
- Take advantage of a convenient method for identifying tagged content
- Use improved error handling
- Take advantage of a new industry-standard parser
- Combine a series of boxes into a named sequence
- Place XML content automatically in a QuarkXPress or QuarkXPress Passport® layout for print, HTML, or PDF output

System requirements
> Software
Microsoft® Windows® XP (service pack 2) or Windows Vista™
> Hardware
CD-ROM drive for installation
1GB of available RAM recommended (256MB minimum on Windows® XP, 512MB minimum on Windows Vista™)
450MB of available hard disk space for installation

Languages:
Czech
Croatian
Danish
Dutch
English (International)
English (U.S.)
Finnish French
German
Greek
Hungarian (hyphenation only)
Italian
Norwegian
Polish Brazilian Portuguese
European Portuguese
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Swiss-German
Turkish