Complete Feature List

User Experience

• Vertical Measurement Palette
• Powerful User Interface
• Modern, intuitive interface on Mac and Win
• Trackpad gesture support*
• Search in palettes
• Native Cocoa Application*
• Retina® Display Support*
• HiDPI Display Support
• Customize keyboard commands*
• Full Screen Experience*
• Set default tool preferences from existing objects*
• Custom Color Schemes*
• Palette grouping/palette sets
• Dockable intelligent palettes
• Keyboardable measurement palette* (e.g. Command+M)
• Resizeable measurement palette*
• Support for 35+ languages
• Spotlight support (for all versions)
• QuickLook support
• East-Asian (right-to-left) support built-in
• Free technical support (60 days after purchase)
• Attractive technical support plans available for purchase
• Incredible performance
• Xenon Graphics Engine
• Adaptive resolution
• Task-based Tools
• Multiple Views
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Drag and Drop
• Make Measurement 50% Larger
• Collect for Output Across Entire Project
• Layout Tab Reordering

Layout Experience

• Digital-to-Print Conversion
• Span Footnotes over Columns
• Different Border for each side
• 10 to 1000% Print Scaling
• Flip Groups
• Page size larger than 1.20m / 48"
• Create custom page sizes
• 8000% Zoom
• Format Painter for text and objects
• Measurement palette
• Dynamic Guides / Smart Guides
• Change values by cursor keys
• Layers
• Layers on Master Pages
• Print Preview
• Page Navigator*
• Find/Change for text
• Find/Change supports breaking/non-breaking characters
• Trim Preview
• Create grids and guides
• Merge text boxes
• Show most recent fonts
• Scale by inputting a percentage
• Adaptive scaling of items and layouts
• Relink images in Usage Dialog
• Master Pages
• Orthogonal Line Tool
• Relink Images in Usage Dialog
• Set Default Tool Preferences From Existing Objects

Designer-controlled Automation

• Built-in modern JavaScript ES6+ based on v8
• Conditional Styles
• Bullets and Numbers
• Callouts
• ShapeMaker
• ImageGrid
• Linkster
• Cloner
• Layout Spaces
• Content Variables
• Lists
• Automatic Footnotes and Endnotes
• Style Sheets
• Cross-referencing
• Variables (print date, creation date etc.)
• Variables can line-wrap
• References
• Running headers
• Indexes and tables of contents
• Libraries
• Super Step and Repeat
• Apple Script

Tables

• Table Creation
• Tables (designed tables) with page wrap
• Fast, inline tables with page wrap
• Tables Styles (for inline tables)

Text and Typography

• First-Class OpenType Controls
• Color Fonts Support
• Upgraded Font Listing
• Hyphenation Strictness Levels
• Unicode® and OpenType® support
• Support for stylistic sets (OpenType)
• Absolute leading (e.g. "10pt")
• Relative leading (e.g. "+2pt")
• Auto-leading
• Proportional leading (e.g. "50%")
• Text shading
• Text stroking
• Convert text to Bézier curves
• Stroke live text
• Glyphs palette
• Copy Textstyle Tool (eyedropper tool for text)
• Span text over columns (headlines)
• Split text inside a text column
• Story Editor
• Smart text linking tool
• Preset and customizable hanging characters
• Several baseline grids
• Automatic column lines (rules)
• Smart quotes also for single quotes
• Additional East Asian baseline grid setup options
• Advanced character spacing; Mojigumi setup controls
• Additional East Asian text and typography setup controls
• Automatic Text Runaround
• Custom Kerning Pairs and Tracking Curves
• Special Characters
• Custom H&J Specifications
• Font Fallback
• Custom Underline Styles
• Kerning and Tracking
• Placeholder Text
• Hyphenation exceptions
• Font mapping
• Text find/change
• Custom text runaround
• 38 text languages and spellchecking/hyphenation in 34 languages
• Fit Textbox to Text
• Highlight Missing Fonts
• Additional smart quotes
• Smart text linking
• Merge Textboxes
• Non-breaking Text Attribute

Vectors and Graphics

• Bézier illustration tools
• Shapemaker tools
• Transparency Blend Modes for items
• Color picker (iDropper)
• Flip Shapes Horizontally and Vertically
• Multi-color gradients for axial and radial gradients
• Multi-color gradients for rectangular and diamond gradients
• Multi-color gradients for borders (frames) and lines
• Convert imported AI/EPS/PDF to native objects
• Create external images when converting to native objects
• Text on a path
• Flip shapes horizontally and vertically
• Fit box to image
• Fit box to text
• Space/Align and Distribution
• Space/Align with key item
• Item Find/Change
• QR Code Creator
• Item Styles
• Easily Join, Extend, and Close Open Bézier Paths

Image Editing and Handling

• Xenon Graphics Engine
• Adaptive Resolution for images
• Display crisp image previews of bitmap images
• Display crisp image previews of PDF and AI
• Display crisp image previews of EPS
• Scale images smaller than 10% and larger than 1000%
• Scale images up to 5000%
• Advanced Image Control
• Non-destructive Image Editing (Adjustments)
• ICC-based batch crop, color mode and downsampling
• Transparency Blend Modes for images
• Transparency and Drop Shadows
• Clipping Paths and Alpha Masking
• Non-destructive Image Editing (Filters)

Collaboration

• Books and Collaboration
• Add all layouts of a project to a book
• Redlining
• Notes
• Job Jackets®
• Job Jackets® in XML format
• Job Jackets® can contain a default dictionary
• Auxiliary dictionary editable (XML)
• Import/Export hyphenation exceptions
• Composition Zones®
• Synchronized Content

Import

• Direct InDesign® IDML Import
• Import PDF
• Paste objects from Illustrator or MS Office as native objects
• Import/export hyphenation exceptions
• Import Text, Pictures and Hyperlinks from Microsoft® Word
• Import Tables and Charts from Microsoft® Excel
• Native Illustrator® file (AI) import
• Native Photoshop® file (PSD) import
• Import footnotes/endnotes from DOCX (MS Word)
• Ignore footnotes/endnotes from Word
• Import Word tables as native tables
• Collect for Output across all layouts
• Open PDF automatically after exporting
• Easily convert Print layout to fixed-layout ePub
• Easily convert Print layout to HTML5
• Convert using adaptive scaling
• Convert PDF, Illustrator and EPS Files to Native QuarkXPress Objects
• Import, Export, and Edit Text
• Native InDesign® IDML Import

Output / Export

• New PDF Print Engine
• Tagged/Accessible PDF
• Direct PDF export (without distiller)
• Pass-Through Transparency
• PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 Export
• Direct Verified PDF/X-4 Export
• Export layers in PDFs
• Export as Image
• Export a book as a single PDF
• In-RIP separations and Composite output
• Multi Channel Output
• Soft Proofing
• Bleed and Registration Marks
• Configurable PDF Job Options
• PDF Pass-Through Transparency
• Reusable Output Styles
• Overprint Control
• Export Boxes, Partial Pages or Whole Pages as Image

Color Management

• ICC-based color management
• Support for ICCv2
• Support for ICCv4
• Spot Inks (Including PANTONE Matching System)

Digital Publishing

• Create Android Single Apps
• HTML5 Export Optimizations
• Digital Preview Improvements
• Grouped Items Interactivity
• Design for App Studio
• HTML5 Animations for apps
• HTML5 Animations for eBooks
• Create tablet and smartphone apps (via App Studio)
• Create single iOS apps (on Desktop, at no extra charge)
• Reflowable eBook export in ePub and Kindle format
• Fixed-layout eBook export in ePub and Kindle format
• Use Style Sheets to export CCS Styles for eBooks
• Justification, runaround, drop caps etc. in ePub and HTML5
• Auto-create a table-of-content
• Create and Export as HTML5 Publications
• Create responsive HTML5 Publications
• Convert Print to Digital Publishing Formats
• Text-to-image Conversion
• Automatic Image Format Conversion
• Unlimited* free iOS single apps
• Adaptive Layout Conversion for Digital

macOS

Software
macOS 14.x (Sonoma), macOS 13.x (Ventura) and macOS 12.x (Monterey)

Hardware 

• CPU with dual cores or more
• 8 GB RAM available for QuarkXPress
• 5 GB hard disk space for installation
• NVIDIA graphic card also supported

» QuarkXPress now works with Native Apple Silicon support (M1 and M2 chip) for faster performance compared to the Intel chips used in prior-generation machines.
» An integrated installer (Universal Binary build) is now available which runs natively on both Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 chip) and Intel-based Mac. The installer will launch the ARM version by default on the Mac Silicon machine.
» For better performance when working with long, complex (graphic-heavy) documents, it is recommended that you use more powerful hardware with greater RAM for QuarkXPress. 

Windows

Software

• Windows 11 Version 22H2 (64 bit) or later, Windows 10 Version 22H2 (64 bit) or later, Microsoft Windows 8.1 with April 2014 update rollup update (KB2919355), and March 2014 servicing stack update (KB2919442) (64 bit) 
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or later

An update for Universal C Runtime (CRT) is required on Windows 8.x. Please follow the link for more information: support.microsoft.com/en-in/kb/2999226

Hardware

• CPU with dual cores or more
• 8GB RAM available for QuarkXPress
• 5GB hard disk space for installation

For better performance when working with long, complex (graphic-heavy) documents, it is recommended that you use more powerful hardware with greater RAM for QuarkXPress.

Other
An Internet connection is required.