![]() ![]() And although we appreciate QuarkXPress's picture/text box layout process, we wish we could just drop text and graphics anywhere on the page as in PageMaker. Even Photoshop lets you undo multiple edits. So far, no matter how many edits you make to a project, you can undo only the most recent one. Alas, there's neither browser preview nor any built-in transfer commands for uploading to an FTP site.Ĭlearly, the software engineers at Quark don't make mistakes otherwise, this program would offer a multiple undo function. You can easily convert text and image boxes into simple rollover buttons (which change their appearance if a mouse passes over them) and hyperlink them to URLs. The small Web toolbar, which appears as soon as you choose to create a Web page document, has buttons for creating rectangular, oval, or Bezier image maps, check boxes, pop-up menus, and radio buttons. Many other programs, such as Word and Dreamweaver, force you to work your way down the page, one element at a time. Also, the program lets you put art and text anywhere on a page, then figures out how to translate the page into HTML. However, we're fairly impressed with QuarkXPress's additional Web features, which let you build Web pages in true WYSIWYG style, instead of dealing with HTML. Both InDesign and FrameMaker let you reassign key sequences, and FrameMaker even lets you create custom menus. You can't create your own button bars, change key sequences, or rework the menus. On the downside, there's still no way to customize Quark's design environment. Version 5.0 finally supports layers, so you can easily organize objects, illustrations, images, and text boxes and hide or show individual layers as desired. Nor have the palettes and toolbar altered much you use them to access major functions such as colors, styles, and tables of contents. To set up a page, you must create boxes to hold text and graphics, then import these elements as needed. The tried-and-true document layout process hasn't changed a bit either. ![]() For example, you can define kerning (the spacing between letter pairs) and trapping (the amount of space between two adjacent colors). The program still offers sophisticated, precise text and color handling. In general, Quark 5.0 is the same desktop publisher (DTP) that professional designers know and love. Amateurs should try easier Microsoft Publisher 2002. Nonetheless, this powerful program maintains its most-favored professional status among desktop publishers. We do have a few complaints: we find Quark's chronic, incomplete PDF support frustrating. ![]() Furthermore, after years of customer requests, Quark 5.0 finally sports a table-building tool and a complete set of Web-page design features. The program offers precise control over typesetting and color handling and makes it easy for design professionals to lay out any sort of manuscript, from a magazine to a novel. In the desktop publishing arena, QuarkXPress holds the top banana title, with good reason. ![]()
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