The table below helps you easily compare the feature highlights of each version of QuarkXPress. This is not a comprehensive list. You can look forward to hundreds of new features and enhancements, depending on your current version of QuarkXPress.
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| Native Illustrator® file import | |
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| Built-in Flash® authoring | |
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| Preset and customizable hanging characters | |
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| Advanced Picture Content tool | |
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| Drag and drop to and from QuarkXPress | |
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| Advanced baseline grids | |
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| Common Illustrator and Photoshop keyboard controls | |
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| Export unflattened transparency in PDFs | |
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| Export layers in PDFs | |
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| Refined spell checking | |
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| Global file format | |
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| Effective resolution | |
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| Report local formatting/update style sheet | |
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| Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 ready | |
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| Additional East Asian baseline grid setup options | |
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| Advanced character spacing; Mojigumi setup controls | |
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| Additional East Asian text and typography setup controls | |
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| Ability to change the language for the QuarkXPress 8 UI | |
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| Guide Manager Pro | |
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| Item Styles and Item Find/Change | |
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| Advanced scaling controls | |
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| Flexible transparency and drop shadows | |
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| Unicode® and OpenType® support | |
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| Job Jackets® | |
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| Layout evaluation | |
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| Composition Zones® | |
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| PDF/X Plus export | |
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| Glyphs palette | |
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| Palette grouping/palette sets | |
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| New color manager | |
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| Paste in place | |
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| Export EPS with embedded fonts | |
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| Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista support | |
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| Dual-platform Licensing | |
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| Full resolution preview | |
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| Photoshop® integration | |
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| Synchronized content | |
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| Image effects and filters | |
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| Direct PDF export (without Distiller) | |
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| Project-based workflow | |
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| Multiple undo | |
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| Microsoft Excel import | |
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| Mac OS X and Windows XP support | |
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| Tables | |
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| HTML and Web design features | |
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| Layers | |
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| Context-sensitive menus | |
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| Text on a path | |
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| Bézier illustration tools | |
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| Clipping paths | |
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| Character style sheets | |
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| Book support | |
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| Indexes and tables of contents | |
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| Measurements palette |  |
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| Paragraph style sheets | |
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| Libraries | |
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| AppleScript | |
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| Color management | |
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Newly added or existing feature
Enhanced feature
Further enhanced feature
For QuarkXPress 7 this was only available in English as part of the XPert Tools download from Quark Web sites
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View the “What’s New in QuarkXPress 8” video.
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