Quark has revealed details of QuarkXPress 10, which boasts more that 50 feature enhancements that combine to boost the design and publishing package’s print and cross-media capabilities, according to the company.
Version 10 features 300,000 lines of new code and 500,000 lines of updated code. However, one of the most significant changes has been a switch from the Carbon programming environment to a native Cocoa app, which the company describes as the “pre-eminent application environment for Apple’s OS X”. Other enhancements include support for HiDPI and Retina displays, a new graphics engine, Xenon, which features “native understanding” of all industry standard image file formats, dynamic rendering of PDFs and adaptive resolution that enables real-time image processing “to deliver designers the most appropriate onscreen resolution with maximum performance”.
“This has been a monumental undertaking by
the development team to thoroughly modernise QuarkXPress in terms of the application environment, architecture, user interface and graphics engine,” said Dave White, chief technology officer for Quark.
“We’re excited not only for this release, but also for the foundation that has been put in place for future QuarkXPress features.”
The software’s user interface has also been overhauled and now features “next generation” palettes, with new shortcut keys to simplify the user experience. Other changes include a one-click full-screen view and enhanced multiscreen functionality.
Building on the package’s cross-media credentials, this latest version continues support for ePub and HTML5 authoring tools for App Studio and can now also create colour vector QR codes directly within QuarkXPress.