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Explore by category  Hardware  CAD  AntiVirus / Security  Design  Databases  Graphics tablets  Image Editing  Magazines  Office software  Operating Systems  Training CDs/DVDs  Web design  Video & Audio Editing  USB's & Stress Balls  Utilities  Office 2007    More Info: QuarkXPress 8 Education Tell-a-friend Normal price:  $1,399 You save:  $1,220 You pay:  $179.00 QuarkXPress 8 Education QuarkXPress is powerful design and page layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine superior typography with colour and pictures to produce dynamic final output for print and Web delivery. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies and design firms, marketers, printers, corporate publishers, cataloguee houses, and book publishers. QuarkXPress 8 complements the way creative professionals work. This superior page-layout and design software helps you speed delivery of print, web, and Flash output. Modern, intuitive interface Intuitively place, scale, rotate, and offset images easily using the new Picture Content tool--no need to switch tools or enter numbers in a palette or dialog box. You can even see a visual preview as you crop an image. You can also draw brand new illustrations directly in QuarkXPress 8 with the redefined Bézier Pen tool--just like you do in Illustrator and other major graphics applications. And the Tools palette is streamlined and simplified, so the tools do more and it’s easier to choose the right one. Design across media Working in the same, familiar print environment of QuarkXPress 8, you can take existing print jobs to Flash, or create new Flash projects, in minutes and without compromising design. Not only does QuarkXPress let you create designer-friendly HTML and Flash content, it helps you maintain design consistency across media through Item Styles and the unique Shared Content feature. Designer-driven typography 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. 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. 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. * Rotate and scale pictures directly with the new Picture Content tool, and preview cropping results as you work * Grab box corners and rotate without switching to a different tool * Draw with ease using new Bézier pen tools that follow graphics standards used by other professional creative applications * Explore new text-to-box support for multiple lines, entire stories, and even multiple boxes, up to an entire spread * Drag and drop from your desktop or other applications that support drag and drop, such as Adobe Bridge * Drop a text file in the midst of existing text flow * Use any box tool to draw a box without worrying about its content (an easy keyboard shortcut enables this for template creation) * Select or switch tools using a single-letter command, or use traditional QuarkXPress keyboard shortcuts * Use built-in Flash (SWF) creation, conversion, and export--no additional purchase required * Leverage your existing print design skills through a common, redefined interface and tool set * Output Flash files that support high-end typography features * Place Interactive layouts into Web layouts with live updates, and share them among multiple designers using Composition Zones * Take an easy path to producing powerful, interactive communications with the page-based--not time-based--model * Apply more than one hundred predefined actions, easily customizing anything you can place on a page * Use Hanging Punctuation and punctuation margin alignment presets to achieve smooth-looking margins with little effort * Customize settings to fit the exact needs of a specific design, font, or even character * Apply a unique grid to each master page or even to each box * Build a grid based on existing text styling automatically * Find glyphs by character or by Unicode number in the Glyphs palette _____________________________ System Requirements Windows Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2 or 3) or Windows Vista 1.0 (certified on Windows Vista) 1GB RAM (256MB minimum on Windows XP, 512MB minimum on Windows Vista) 500MB hard disk space DVD-ROM drive Internet connection for activation Macintosh Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) G5 PowerPC processor or Intel processor (G4 minimum) 1GB RAM (256MB minimum) 1GB hard disk space DVD-ROM drive Internet connection for activation

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