(2 August 2007 3:55 pm)

MUMBAI:Quark Inc. has announced the availability of the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater, a maintenance release of the professional design software. The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater provides new localised user interfaces in European Portuguese, Finnish, Croatian, Hungarian, and Russian, increasing the number of languages supported by QuarkXPress 7 to 18.

In addition, this regularly scheduled 90-day maintenance release addresses the most frequently reported issues identified by QuarkXPress 7 users. The updater is available as a free download at the company website.

"Quark is pleased to empower users in Portugal, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, and Russia in their pursuit of unmatched creativity and productivity by providing QuarkXPress user interfaces in their native languages," said Quark SVP desktop business unit Jürgen Kurz.

"Equally important, we are committed to acting promptly on issues that matter most to our customers by delivering free maintenance releases every 90 days. I encourage customers to download the QuarkXPress 7.3 updater to begin leveraging the supplemental language features and enhancements of the updater today" added Kurz.

In addition to the new user interfaces in these five languages, the updater includes hyphenation and spelling support for Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic, and Slovak, states an official release.

The QuarkXPress 7.3 updater also includes enhancements to collecting for output, multiple-copy output, and project file size.

The new Default PDF Output Styles feature, which requires no additional set up, also adds more options for PDF output, including press, print, screen, PDF/X-1a: 2001, PDF/X-3:2002.