Designer-driven Typography

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
• customise 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

Design Grids/Advanced Baseline Grids

Design Grids give you the power to organize the design of your text, offering unprecedented control over your baseline grid settings, the ability to apply unique grid settings to individual boxes, and a Grid Styles feature that can keep even complex documents consistent.

Move beyond the restrictions of a document-wide baseline grid and enjoy the ability to easily create grids based on existing style sheets, snap one grid to another, and even resize your grid based on how many lines of text you need to fit in a box.

At a glance

• Apply a unique grid to each master page or even to each box
• Build a grid based on existing text styling automatically
• Apply Grid Styles to achieve quick and easy consistency
• Link to page or box grid on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis
• Create a master page grid automatically based on your intended line count
• Link a Grid Style to a style sheet for automatic grid updates
• Define baselines, centerlines, toplines, and bottomlines either manually or by reading settings from fonts
• Specify different view settings for page and box grids
• Drag boxes by their grids to snap two baselines into alignment
• Lock Margins

Unicode and OpenType Support

Developed for global publishing, QuarkXPress 8 supports the OpenType® font standard and Unicode® encodings that let you work with a massive range of special characters. Every edition of QuarkXPress 8 can handle East Asian, Roman, Cyrillic, and other character types with new font menus that preview your chosen font as well as an enhanced Glyph's palette to help you find just the character you need. QuarkXPress 8 also supports more than 20 new OpenType features for East Asian scripts, leveraging the power of this font standard to create pro-quality typography.

At a glance

• Find glyphs by character or by Unicode number in the Glyphs palette
• Pick the perfect font from WYSIWYG Font menus
• Choose from more than 20 new OpenType features for East Asian scripts