Quark previews QuarkXPress 7.0 with OpenType, Unicode
updated 04:00 pm EST, Thu February 17, 2005
QuarkXPress 7.0 preview
Quark today offered the , the next version of its flagship desktop publishing application. Calling it "the most significant upgrade in the product's history," Quark said the update would be biggest rewrite of code, offering new support for both Unicode and OpenType (with 23 supported features) by rewriting the core text engine, compartmentalizing many parts of its code to make it simpler to add features now and in the future, according to eWEEK. Version 7.0, demoed at the TypoTechnica 2005 conference, will bring a new Font Fallback feature that allows publishers to set a default font when missing characters exist as well as a new Glyph Palette, which will include pop-up menu for selecting groups of related glyphs.
