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About Us |
| Computer Literacy - delivers instructor led
QuarkXPress / Quark computer training courses in London and
throughout South East England. |
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about the scheduled, custom and on-site courses we offer please
click on the "QuarkXPress Courses" Page link above. |
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QuarkXPress Version Release
History |
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QuarkXPress has long been the dominant
application for the professional design of magazines and
brochures. While QuarkXPress is still the market
leader, Adobe InDesign - launched as a direct competitor
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Quark Inc. was founded in 1981 in Denver,
USA, by Tim Gill and initially developed word
processing software for Apple II and Apple III systems.
The first version of Quark's desktop publishing
application, QuarkXPress, was released in 1987. Gill
left the company in 2000. |
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After releasing QuarkXPress version 3.3,
Quark had a history of doing relatively infrequent new
versions and when they did release new versions pricing
them at a high level. This, combined with the public
perception of former CEO Fred Ebrahimi's poor attitude
towards the customers, has resulted in a strong negative
feeling among many of Quarks customers - which seems to
explain why Adobe has found it relatively easy to woo
Quark customers to try their competing software. The
release of QuarkXPress 5 in 2002 led to row with Apple
who threatened to no longer endorse Quark products if
they did not support Mac OS X. |
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Since 2004 Quark has changed its pricing
policies and released more frequent updates, the last
one 6.5 was even free of charge! |
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The table below lists the various versions of
QuarkXPress that you may encounter. |
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Version |
Released |
Comments |
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1 |
1987 |
MacOS only |
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2 |
1989 |
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3 |
1990 |
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3.1 |
1992 |
First version to also support Windows |
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3.2 |
1993 |
First version to also support Applescript |
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3.3 |
1996 |
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4 |
1997 |
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4.1 |
1999 |
First version to also support XML |
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5 |
2002 |
First version to also support HTML |
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6 |
2003 |
First version to support Mac OS X (and Windows) |
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6.5 |
2004 |
First version to also support Document
Object Model |
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7 |
2006 |
Released on 23 May 2006 the
long awaited latest release supports Unicode, OpenType, Drop Shadows,
Transparencies, JDF, Compresion Zones and more. |
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To learn more about the training
solutions that Computer Literacy are able to offer for
QuarkXpress
click here. |
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