With QPS® XTensions® for Adobe® InDesign®, you can use QuarkXPress® with QuarkCopyDesk® and Adobe® InDesign® with InCopy® in a single workflow system, accommodating designers and customers who use either application, driving greater efficiency, and reducing costs. more

Through compatibility with QuarkXPress 8, help your creative professionals work faster and smarter; create print, Web, and Flash® design using one software application; and take control of their design so they can push their concepts further. QPS 8 also offers improved operating system-level Drag & Drop in QuarkXPress

• QuarkCopyDesk 8 "inherited" the new, intuitive interface UI from QuarkXPress 8, allowing content editors to work faster with fewer clicks
• QuarkCopyDesk 8 also features the new hanging character typographic tools that were introduced by QuarkXPress 8
• QuarkCopyDesk 8 allows to maintain East Asian text and special East Asian character attributes in articles
• The new page grid and text grid, which is part of QuarkXPress´ 8 East Asian language support, is now visible in the QuarkCopyDesk WYSIWYG editing mode
• Like QuarkXPress 8, QuarkCopyDesk 8 support the universal file format, allowing users to choose dictionaries and hyphenation in more than 30 languages, edit and print QuarkCopyDesk 8 articles created anywhere in the world, and tap into easy-to-use, professional-grade Asian typography
• QPS 8 also offers improved, operating system-level Drag & Drop in QuarkCopyDesk´s WYSIWYG editing mode

QPS 8 now supports the native Adobe Illustrator file format as picture asset by letting users preview .ai files in the QPS XTensions software for QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk, as well as in the QPS Connect Client and the Web Hub

• Support for Rubi – Rubi text clarifies the meaning or pronunciation of base text.
• Use the Group Characters dialog box (Style menu) to include a group of horizontal characters, such as Roman characters, within a vertical line of text. Grouped characters always display horizontally.)
• Web Hub maintains East Asian text and special East Asian character attributes in articles

• Global file format – Open any file authored in any language edition of QuarkXPress 8, uniquely enabling global publishing, and review and approval workflows
• Designer–Driven Typography
• Use Hanging Punctuation and punctuation margin alignment presets to achieve smooth-looking margins with little effort
• Customize settings to fit the exact needs of a specific design, font, or even character
• Define hanging character settings down to the paragraph level
• Integrate hanging character effects in style sheets
• Create custom hanging character classes, including settings for left side, right side, and when used as drop caps
• QuarkXPress Server 8 supports the latest OpenType® font features so printers can now receive QuarkXPress 8 files from any corner of the world, including East Asia, and print them with confidence.
• Additional Server Platform support
• Windows 2008 Server
• MAC OS 10.5 (Leopard)

Improved Language Support

• QPS 8 now provides Japanese user interface. Users now can switch the entire interface (menus and dialogs) to any of the 13 supported languages. (U.S. English, International English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, and Japanese)
• In addition, users can use hyphenation and spell checking to create content in over 30 languages.

Simplified user management through integration with customers directory services

In addition to the open–source HSQL and Microsoft SQL databases, QPS now is certified with Oracle 10g

• Pictures that are part of QuarkXPress projects now can be checked into QPS as assets together with the QuarkXPress project and will be automatically attached in a single step.
• The new Multi Page Preview allows previewing of all pages of QuarkXPress, QuarkCopyDesk, and PDF documents
• Check in multiple assets, such as pictures, into QPS in a single step, and add metadata information across all assets and individually
• Using custom grouping, produce consolidated reports by grouping multiple columns in search results.
• Full text search — Enabled by Apache® Lucene, the high–performance, full-featured text search engine, this feature allows users to search text content in all types of documents, including
• QuarkXPress, QuarkCopyDesk, PDF, and Microsoft Word.

• The "Check In Other" feature lets users to check in files of any kind to QPS through a Web browser.
• Like the QPS Connect Client, the Web Hub’s Multi–Page Preview now allows users to preview all pages of QuarkXPress, QuarkCopyDesk®, and PDF documents in QPS.
• The new "Get Asset" feature enables users to download copies of QuarkXPress layouts and QuarkCopyDesk articles to the local hard drive — either in the original document format or as a PDF. Other file types can be downloaded in their original document format as well.
• Like QuarkCopyDesk, QPS Web Hub allows users to enable and disable the page picture of items surrounding the actual article.
• Provides enhanced security through 128-bit encrypted SSL Support.