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QuarkXpress

The longest running and certainly the most popular of the professional desktop publishing page layout packages. QuarkXpress has been the primary layout design application, since it swept Pagemaker aside in the 1990's, as the publishing package of choice amongst designers.

Although it has been getting stiff competition from Adobe's InDesign in recent years, QuarkXpress still has a very large installed user base. It also has the advantage of years of experience and third party plugin products, called Xtensions, that enhance the product's capabilities.

The program itself is actually called Xpress (often misspelled as Quark Express), Quark is the company name.

See also: InDesign. QuarkXpress training resources, QuarkXpress 6.5, QuarkXpress 7 beta, Quark 7 final release, QuarkXpress 8.