VINTAGE QuarkXPress 3.31 + 4.1 CD Software & Manuals MAC $39.95
The Software that started it all and should be in a future Graphic Design Museum!QuarkXpress was Desk Top Publishing (DTP) software for creating and editing WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) complex pages. It was first released by Quark, Inc. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them.
QuarkXPress\' users were/are designers, publishing houses and corporates who produce, for example, single page flyers, multi-media for magazines, newspapers and catalogues.
QuarkXPress was widely used by professional page designers, the typesetting industry, and printers in the 1990s. Mac version of 3.3 (released in 1996) was very reliable and working seamlessly with Adobe\'s PostScript fonts and Apple\'s TrueType fonts. Quark\'s support of AppleScript was a key success factor for both Quark and AppleScript.
In 1989, QuarkXPress included XTensions, an application programming interface (API), which allowed other developers to create custom add-on features to the desktop application. XTensions and Adobe\'s Photoshop plugins, were early examples of a mainstream Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) allowing other ISVs to create software add-ons.
Although there were other competitive products like PageMaker, QuarkXPress had an estimated 95% market share during the 1990s.
QuarkXPress provided the basic functionality of font, alignment, spacing, and color, however, for professional typesetting it also had functions such as kerning, curving text along a line, and ligatures. A QuarkXPress document contained text and graphics boxes, which could be reshaped, layered, and given varying levels of transparency and text alignment (runaround). Box positioning and graphic or text positioning within a box had an accuracy of one-thousandth of an inch and color control for printing-press standard Pantone or Hexachrome inks, and other color-space options. Draft output could be printed on conventional desktop printers and final process color separation films in Cyan Magenta Yellow Black (CMYK) for pre-digital printing-presses. QuarkXPress enabled composite work-flows, both with PostScript and PDF output.
QuarkXPress 4 (1997) – First version with bézier curves. Notable interface improvements include pop-up tools and tabbed dialog boxes.
QuarkXPress 4.1 (1999) – First version to also support PDF and XML
Platform: Apple Macintosh 68020 or higher, PowerPC 10Mb RAM 14Mb Hard disk space CD-ROMMac OS System 7.1.2 or greaterLaserWriter driver 7.0Adobe Type ManagerInternet connectionApplication Software (AS:) Desk Top Publishing (DTP)Version: 4.1Platform : Apple Power MacintoshFormat : CD-ROMPublisher : Quark Date : 1999Number of Devices: 1License Category: StandardFormat: CDsType: Desktop Publishing (DTP)For Operating Systems: Apple Mac OS 6, Apple Mac OS 7, Apple Mac OS 8, Apple Mac OS 9,Platform: Apple Power MacintoshOperating Systems: Apple Mac OS 6, 7, 8, 9Language: EnglishBrand: Quark Application Software (AS:) Desk Top Publishing (DTP)Version: 4.1 Date : 1999
Including various documentation, notes and communication with Quark.The materials have all been in storage for the last twenty years. What you see is what you get.
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