While a recent challenge has come from Adobe InDesign, Creative Voice Award-winning QuarkXPress remains the incumbent solution for design and layout. Of course, QXP now includes an enhanced html filter, character stylesheets, and improved pdf import. All this and it demands a mere 10MB of RAM!
For handling graphics, QuarkXPress allows you to choose a clipping path from among multiple embedded paths in a TIFF image. For combining pictures, text, writing, typography, editing and printing in one application, XPress is a full-service desktop publishing solution, and provides total command over page layout. Continued competition from Adobe should inspire Quark to beef the software up even further in the coming versions.
To read more about QXP, read a head-to-head debate on the relative merits of XPress versus InDesign or peruse tutorials at ZD Journals’ Inside QarkXPress
This article was last modified on January 8, 2025
This article was first published on March 15, 2000
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