Customer Testimonials
"QuarkXPress 8 has a sleeker user interface with a more rational toolbar set and adherence with the way the user expects to work with such tools."
"With QuarkXPress 8, Quark has addressed and connected the entire publishing value chain from designers through to output providers. It's a strategic move that will benefit the entire industry!"
"With QuarkXPress 8, Quark delivers software that will help designers work flawlessly and achieve both quicker and better results. The new design of the interface is well thought out and some of the new tools are superb. The technology is here, the company is here, and the product is rock-solid — creativity is up to you."
"QuarkXPress 8 manages one of the most difficult tasks in software development — rethinking the user interface to make it more efficient, more productive, and more enjoyable, without alienating the experienced user. The potential productivity gains of the new release should be considerable."
"I appreciate that the user interface of QuarkXPress 8 adapts even better to the way creative professionals work. Content can now be imported and exported using drag and drop. The Measurements palette is now even more powerful, so you don’t have to take a detour through other palettes. Object Styles - a function that has been requested for a long time - is now integrated. And the icing on the cake, in my opinion, is the flexible, definable hanging punctuation in QuarkXPress 8."
"My first impression of QuarkXPress 8 is good. Its user interface was modernized in a very convenient way and it offers useful, easy-to-access functions. I look forward to doing my own tests to find out how fast this new version works."
"The specific East Asian editions with enhanced East Asian features will most probably convince Asian customers to finally upgrade their licenses to QuarkXPress 8."
"Quark has obviously been listening to its customer base, and my first impressions of QuarkXPress 8 prove this. Its sleeker interface, improved work flow, and integrated, interactive Web tools all look very promising."
"For new designers it looks like QuarkXPress 8 is going to be the easiest professional page-layout tool to learn…While other design software grows increasingly complicated with each release, the new QuarkXPress 8 interface actually makes the program simpler to use, while still adding powerful new features."
"Quark has done it again! I am amazed at the way the pen tool now responds to keyboard shortcuts! It makes it easier than ever to draw my vector illustrations right inside QuarkXPress 8."
“With QuarkXPress 8, Quark takes a major step forward in capturing the attention of a younger generation of designers, while dramatically improving the interface for seasoned veterans. And its unique, core-level support for multilingual publishing takes global communication a huge leap forward.”
“It won’t take long for current QuarkXPress to familiarize themselves with the new and greatly improved usability of QuarkXPress 8. Therefore people who switch from other layout applications will quickly find their way. The new user interface appears intuitive and modern and offers numerous useful functions.”


