Quark Inc. in mid-October announced QuarkXPress 6.5, a free update to their flagship desktop publishing software application. On Monday the company announced the new version’s release. It is available for download from Quark’s Web site now.
QuarkXPress 6.5 includes new features like the QuarkVista image editing plug-in, which allows uers to apply scale, crop, angle and skew transformations, import graphic files and manage color space conversions. Native multi-layer Photoshop file import and layer editing is now supported with PSD Import, and QuarkXClusive has been updated — a Mac OS X-only XTensions module used for variable data printing. The PSD Import Xtensions module and the updated QuarkXClusive module will both be available for download for no charge shortly after the release of QuarkXPress.