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From: yale!hsi!burns@seismo.CSS.GOV (Jeff Burns)
Summary: PageMaker & Ventura versus QUARK XPRESS a new challenger?
Date: 21 May 87 17:13:30 GMT
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT

I am also looking for page layout software and came across Quark Xpress
in my research.

MACUSER Magazine (May 1987) gives a glowing "5-mouse" review to
Quark Xpress.  I quote:

	Quark Xpress is a superb product that represents a
	major step forward in the evolution of desktop publishing.
	Developed by a company in Denver previously known for a
	few very high quality software products on Apple IIs and
	IIIs, Xpress is light-years ahead of where desktop publishing
	was a year ago. ...

	Xpress makes true, professional quality page layout easy.
	Other page layout programs let you work in typefaces from
	0 to 127 points (a limitation set within QuickDraw). Xpress
	has a range from 0 to 500 point typefaces, in 1-point
	increments. Xpress contains a full-featured word processor with
	built-in spell checking, manual or automatic hyphenation and
	an exeptional dictionary. ...

	Graphics are displayed in boxes, with either square, rounded
	corner, circular, or oval shapes. Text flows automatically
	around a picture box -- move the picture someplace else and
	the text automatically adjusts.  Boxes can be transparent ...
	text can wrap around the shape of a graphic itself, or continue
	to conform to the box.  Graphics can be imported from MacPaint,
	-PICT or TIFF files, but the program has the built in ability
	to draw lines, arrows and frames. ...

	You can pipeline text from one area to another, with tag lines that
	let you know where the text went. Simply type in your tag
	and a command key for "Next Page."  The tag line will register the
	correct page number of the continuation text.  A similar tag
	"From page ..." can be added at the beginning of the continuation
	box.  The page references are relative--if either portion
	of the pipelined text is moved, the tag lines automatically
	update to show the correct placement. ...

	Xpress is a real find and a very good value at $695.

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Sounds great, doesn't it?  I look forward to seeing a demo.

Does anyone on the net currently use Xpress?



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