Intuitive and Adaptable Interface

The intuitive QuarkXPress Passport interface is largely based on palettes that let you choose from a variety of tools, styles, colors, measurements, and so on to quickly construct a document. Using the comprehensive editing features of QuarkXPress Passport, you can import and manipulate pictures and text. The flexibility of the QuarkXPress Passport interface lets you design a workspace that really works for you. Additionally, with a click of the mouse, you can display the user interface in any of the 11 languages supported by QuarkXPress Passport.

Picture Manipulation and Color Management

QuarkXPress Passport allows you to smoothly integrate pictures with text. Picture file formats created by image-editing or graphics applications can be imported into QuarkXPress documents, and can be scaled, skewed, rotated, and clipped; or they can be modified using color and shade controls, clipping path settings, and runaround specifications. QuarkXPress also provides ICC-based color management on both Mac OS and Windows platforms. Apple ColorSync and Kodak Digital Science technology are both supported.

Flexible Options for Importing and Editing Text

You can write, edit, and check spelling in 11 languages using QuarkXPress Passport. You can also use filters to import text files into QuarkXPress documents to save time and money. Filters for most popular word-processing applications are provided with the QuarkXPress Passport application. Users can even import native Adobe Photoshop documents (.psd files) into QuarkXPress Passport and exploit the power of multi-layer Photoshop images without leaving QuarkXPress.

Precise and Professional Typography

The extensive typographic controls in QuarkXPress Passport allow you to manipulate text to meet precise specifications. You can kern and track text in .001 increments in any supported measurement system, use paragraph and character style sheets to quickly and consistently format text, scale text, create custom hyphenation and justification specifications, and more.

Multiple Document Layout and Text Flow Options

QuarkXPress Passport offers several ways to arrange your document pages. You can create multiple-page spreads, specify facing pages, and use master pages to make global changes to the document. Palettes and menu options make it simple to add, delete, or rearrange pages. Furthermore, you can control text flow by creating text boxes that automatically flow the text to the next page; you can also manually specify text flow from one text box to the next, no matter how far apart the text boxes are. Improved long-document publishing features include indexing and default character style sheets for cross-references. Layout control is made even simpler by providing users the option to place guides on a master page's pasteboard and display them automatically in your layout. Additionally, users can group tables with other QuarkXPress items including other tables, picture boxes, and text boxes.

Share Attributes Among Complex Projects

Layout spaces redefine the work area so the QuarkXPress Passport "document" is now a "project", which is a collection of layouts that might include print pages, Web pages, or different versions of either, in varying sizes and orientations. Because several layouts can reside in the same project, you can easily share specifications such as style sheets, colors, hyphenation settings, and lists among them. You can even share content between layouts with the Synchronize text feature. Edit text in one place and corresponding text elsewhere in the project will be changed simultaneously.

Tools for Creative Document Design

QuarkXPress Passport provide functionality that makes it simple to create documents with a visual edge. You can easily organize data, including text and pictures, using tables. Layers extend your design power by letting you isolate and arrange items. You can also use Bezier tools and the Merge menu to create picture boxes, text boxes, text paths, and lines in nearly any shape.

Professional Printing Capabilities

Whether you output to paper or film, the printing capabilities of QuarkXPress Passport will give you the professional results you need. The comprehensive printing controls allow you to output almost any type of document. For instance, you can output separations, create bleeds, tile oversized documents, and print a non-continuous range of pages. You can also create reusable print styles to store frequently used settings. Because PDF creation technology has been incorporated into QuarkXPress Passport, you can output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress Passport without buying third-party software. Furthermore, customize printing features such as saving output settings for custom bleeds as print styles provide additional printout control.

Tools for Media-Independent Publishing

QuarkXPress Passport allows you to create Web documents that contain rollovers, hyperlinks, and forms to meet a variety of requirements. Web documents created with QuarkXPress Passport can be exported as HTML documents that can be posted directly on a Web site, and can also be opened and edited in standard, non-proprietary tools such as Dreamweaver. Web documents can be used by anyone in your Web workflow, even if they are using a different HTML editing tool. QuarkXPress Passport also supports Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, so content can then be used with HTML templates to create dynamic Web pages. You can also automatically place XML content in a QuarkXPress document for print, HTML, or PDF output.

XTensions Software for Customizing Workflow

QuarkXTensions and XTensions modules allow users to customize QuarkXPress Passport to meet their particular publishing needs. QuarkXTensions modules are developed by Quark, and third-party developers create XTensions modules. QuarkXTensions and XTensions are available for both Mac OS and Windows.

Easy-to-use in a Multi User Environment

QuarkXPress Passport makes IT management simple with support for Citrix servers and the ability to run the application off a server instead of an individual user's computer.