"Now we will deliver"

Publishing XPress 7 is the first in a series of new products and updates from Quark, mainly to take advantage of the new features of
of the XPress 7 layout software, the company invited
Quark to a one-day event in Frankfurt at the end of May. This
took place shortly after a similar event in New York, where QuarkXPress
7 officially presented and also its immediate, worldwide
availability was announced. The "QuarkXPress Launch
Events should also show that Quark is back and that their new
design claim, which is reflected in a new CI including logo
has been knocked down.

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At a press conference, Quark provided information about the current
situation. The management is aware of the fact that there are
It took a long time for version 7 to hit the shelves. But
long wait should now be a thing of the past. That at least
promised the person responsible for the Desktop Products division at Quark
Jürgen Kurz: "Enough of the many words - now we will deliver." Thanks to
a reprogramming of XPress 7, Quark will in future be able to
be easier and faster to select other products from the program.
to develop new products. When asked about new products, Kurz explained that Quark
a new Quark Dynamic Document Server before the end of this year.
will be presented. The QPS editorial system will then be presented in a
revised version on the market.

Quark continues to maintain XPress 6, which is a Rosetta-optimized version.
Version 6.5.2 is due to be released in June; it will therefore mainly run
better on Apple computers equipped with Intel processors.
XPress 7 itself is also not yet available for these computers.
optimized. "A beta test phase is currently underway," says Kurz, "in which
interested parties can participate. We allow ourselves a little more time and
deliver the application as soon as it is available. The quality has
priority here - but the update to Universal Binary is then
free of charge for XPress 7 customers." Furthermore, Quark wants to "in the next
Time" to integrate further XTensions into the product.   
   

Jürgen Franck