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XPress 7

Macworld Rating

3.0 out of 5 Mice, May 24, 2006

Pros

  • Offers PDF/X export
  • Includes many design-oriented features such as transparency and drop shadows
  • Some table improvements
  • Can synchronize text and styles

Cons

  • Sluggish performance
  • Some features, such as multiple-layout projects and table controls, have the same limitations as in previous versions
  • Major new features are production oriented and have limited utility for most designers

Software Details

  • Quark
  • 10.4 (Tiger)
  • PowerPC
  • $749, upgrade $249; Passport edition, $1,499

Macworld's XPress 7 Coverage

  • QuarkXPress 7 Quark has added some good features to XPress 7. But the new territories Quark is staking out will hardly excite the broad design community, and they're difficult to learn.
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