Quark extends reach of content design and digital publishing software

Quark Software, a provider of content design, automation, and intelligence software, has announced QuarkXPress 2022. The page layout and digital publishing software is now available for purchase as both a traditional perpetual license and a prepaid annual subscription. The approach allows any user, especially students, academic institutions and charities/nonprofits, to have a budget-friendly entry point to benefit from QuarkXPress 2022‘s features and enhancements, including the new royalty-free stock image library.

QuarkXPress 2022's new features and enhancements include:

• Subscription licensing – In addition to the traditional perpetual license that Quark always has offered, a standard, prepaid annual subscription license for QuarkXPress is now available
• License management console – A new, in-product license management console provides a central location to view and manage all QuarkXPress licenses, including activating and deactivating licenses and adding and removing users as needed
• OS compatibility – QuarkXPress 2022 is compatible with macOS Monterey and Windows 11
• Royalty-free stock image library
• Reduced PDF size – Export smaller PDFs without compromising the quality of their components thanks to automatic, optimized image compression and the ability to compress stream objects
• Faster PDF export – Generate PDFs for documents with rich graphics up to 60% faster
• Bookmarks – This new feature makes large PDFs more interactive and easier for readers to navigate by adding bookmarks to specific pages, sections, or text; also create nested/grouped bookmarks to show parent-child relationships in an expandable-and-collapsible list
• Find/change footnotes – Find and change text within footnotes using different attributes within the find/change dialog box
• Adobe InDesign shortcuts – Use out-of-the-box InDesign shortcuts to work more easily within the QuarkXPress environment