Design Interactivity in a Flash with Quark Interactive Designer.New Component Brings the Power of Macromedia Flash to QuarkXpress Designers LONDON -- Designing Flash layouts without needing to know complex code is now possible within QuarkXPress. Quark quark (kwôrk): see elementary particles. quark Any of a group of subatomic particles thought to be among the fundamental constituents of matter—more specifically, of protons and neutrons. Inc. announced today the availability of Quark Interactive Designer Quark Interactive Designer is a tool for creating Macromedia Flash content from QuarkXPress documents. , which enables creative professionals to leverage their skills to create rich, interactive content such as interactive tours, online ads, and design-driven presentations using QuarkXPress 7. Quark Interactive Designer puts added power in the hands of designers by allowing them to design precise and compelling Flash layouts for the Web without needing to know complicated code. That means creative professionals can utilize dedicated features for interactive buttons, animations, movies, and dozens of predefined actions for transitioning pages, playing sounds, sliding objects, and creating interactive menus. "Quark Interactive Designer creates the opportunity to take the intricate, heavily designed printed work we've created for our clients and make it dynamic effortlessly," said Steve Whittier, partner, vice president, and creative director of Factory Design Labs. "This easy-to-use software tool has single-handedly given us the power to offer more to our clients, all while saving us significant time and money. It's always cool to find a new program that you can make something with Co and then to have fun putting it to use. For us, this software is a big deal. It's the only one of its kind, and we are already using it on projects." Quark Interactive Designer eliminates the need for multiple programs to produce multiple outputs and the hazards of potential conversion issues. Instead, users simply design for multiple channels inside QuarkXPress using the only Flash-creation application with built-in collaboration features in the industry. "We see this as a great competitive advantage for our customers," said JE-rgen Kurz, Quark vice president of desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, products. "Users design and create a layout once and then easily repurpose To change the media format; for example, to go from print to online. content for another format Co saving hours of duplicate work and ensuring consistency. But most important, Quark Interactive Designer gives you instantaneous results. It is fun to create thriving Flash designs. You are going to love using this product." Quark Interactive Designer enables individual designers as well as corporate, Marcom, and retail groups to create dynamic marketing pieces in-house Co all without hiring specialized development staff. Agencies can maximize the creativity of their designers by allowing the same core design group to rapidly design high-quality files in SWF file See Flash. format without compromising their vision. Additionally, design students finally have one tool to fully express themselves through all channels: print, Web, and interactive presentations. Availability and Price Quark Interactive Designer requires QuarkXPress 7.02 or later and is available as a Universal application for Mac OS and Windows. Quark Interactive Designer is attractively priced at $199 with a special introductory offer of $99 until April 1, 2007. Locate your nearest Quark Authorized Reseller in the Americas at www.quark.com/resellers and in Europe at euro.quark.com/resellers, or purchase it directly from the QuarkStore on the Quark Web site at store.quark.com/QuarkStore/. Educational purchasers of QuarkXPress 7 will receive a copy of Quark Interactive Designer at no charge. If you are an Educational customer of QuarkXPress 7, visit the Quark Web site www.quark.com/education for more information. To learn more about QuarkXPress 7 and how to purchase or upgrade, visit the Quark Web site at www.quark.com/sales/desktop. A fully functional 30-day evaluation version of QuarkXPress 7, including the new Universal release for Intel-based Macs A Macintosh computer that is powered by Intel x86 CPUs, the same family of chips used in Windows and Linux PCs. See Mactel. , is available for download from www.quark.com/30days. About Quark Quark Inc. (www.quark.com) is an innovative software company providing design, production, and collaboration solutions that are transforming the business of creative communications. Quark has provided award-winning software for professional publishers since its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , QuarkXPress, changed the course of traditional publishing. Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held. About Factory Design Labs Factory Design Labs is the culturally relevant design collective focused on the sports, automotive, and entertainment industries and specializes in creating unique strategic solutions that connect brands and their consumers. Factory Design Labs currently works with Audi of America, Oakley, Intrawest Colorado, Brine brine a salt solution used in the curing of meat. Standard ingredients are sodium chloride (15 to 30%) and sodium nitrate (0.15 to 1.50%) but many other ingredients may be added for special effects. brine shrimp see artemia. , Palmer Snowboards, The Sports Authority Sports Authority is the USA's largest full line sporting goods retailer. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. It operates over 400 stores in 45 U.S. states under the Sports Authority name. Total sales for the fiscal year ending January 29 2005 were $2.44 billion. , Sony Pictures, Dell, AdamSandler.com, Paramount Pictures, Boa Technology, Optic Nerve optic nerve: see vision. , Westword, Copper Mountain, SCARPA North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , SCARPA Italia, and Winter Park among other national and global brands. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.factorylabs.com. Quark and Quark related marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Quark Inc. and all applicable affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. , Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and in many other countries. All other marks are the properties of their respective owners. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. news feed: http://www.quark.com/about/presscenter/rss/quarkPressRelease-rss20.cfm |
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