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QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is a software application for desktop publishing.
Competing with other page layout applications such as PageMaker and FrameMaker, QuarkXPress (created by Colorado-based Quark, Inc.) has made a name for itself with its precise type controls, multiple master pages, and XTension technology, which allows users to customize XPress with add-on features sold by Quark and by third-party vendors.
XPress (also commonly called Quark) is used to format documents ranging from business cards and brochures all the way up to highly technical math and science textbooks. It’s extremely popular in the magazine publishing world because of its well-designed color handling features — it was the first page layout application to be able to output color separations complete with automatic trapping. Book publishers who work on the desktop (many book composition houses still use high-end dedicated systems) like QuarkXPress because its elegant implementation of master pages and style sheets allow users to quickly produce large numbers of pages based on a common design. QuarkXPress allows you to have as many as 127 master pages or master page spreads (if you’re using facing pages). Items placed on a master page will also be placed on any body page to which that master page is applied, and once those items are on the body page they can be removed or altered as needed.
Each QuarkXPress document can have up to 127 paragraph style sheets per document. When applied to a paragraph (by choosing from a list of style sheets while your cursor is in that paragraph), a style sheet changes the font, size, leading, color, and other attributes of the text in that paragraph, all at once. In its next release, version 4.0, QuarkXPress will also support character-based style sheets, which only affect the characters that are selected when the style sheet is applied. This feature, previously available only through XTensions such as FaceIt! and XStyle, is useful for bullets that need to be changed to a dingbat font, or when working with mathematical texts that require characters to be set in math fonts like Symbol.