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Quark is responding to increasing competition from Adobe with XPress v.6.5. Although claiming more than an 80% market share and over three million users worldwide, Quark cannot avoid noting how Adobe's Photoshop, Illustrator, and PDF applications integrate seamlessly into its InDesign layout, a package Adobe calls Creative Suite. XPress 6.5 has accordingly been recast as what Quark calls a "Project" structure, permitting pages of different sizes to be included in a single manuscript. Multiple documents can be part of a single project, with each document as long as 2,000 pages. Wide-format posters, web pages, and booklet pages are all published in different formats, but 6.5 allows all such styles, graphics, and text can be linked together in what Quark calls 'synchronized content.' Style or text revisions made at any point, such as in an advertising headline, will automatically be changed for corresponding heads in the website, poster, and so on. Other new features include: the ability to undo or redo the last 30 revisions in a single batch; a utility exporting HTML when converting print to web-compatible formats; and an XTensions module to manipulate images. Users will now be able to use the power of multilayering images from Photoshop without leaving XPress. This program also supports Citrix deployment, which allows applications to be run by the server rather than individual computers. XPress 6.5 is inventive and highly user-friendly.
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