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48-461: The most recent version, QuarkXPress 2024 (internal version number 20.0.0), introduces two new palettes: Font Manager and Picture Links, and has compatibility with macOS Sonoma, as well as the option to export to IDML format. QuarkXPress is used by designers, publishing houses and corporations to produce from printable to multimedia projects. Recent versions have added support for ebooks/flipbooks, Web and mobile apps. Founded by Tim Gill in 1981 with

96-509: A $ 2,000 loan from his parents, with the introduction of Fred Ebrahimi as CEO in 1986. The first version of QuarkXPress was released in 1987 for the Macintosh. Five years passed before a Microsoft Windows version (3.1) followed in 1992. In the 1990s, QuarkXPress became widely used by professional page designers, the typesetting industry and printers. In particular, the Mac version of 3.3 (released in 1996)

144-504: A $ 500 million fortune into the nation's most powerful force for LGBTQ rights." Tim Gill founded the Gill Foundation in 1994, and co-chairs it with his husband Scott Miller . The national, Denver -based non-profit organization underwrites academic research, polling, litigation, data analytics, and field organizing related to the LGBTQ rights movement . The foundation's initial focus

192-771: A Flash advertisement. No knowledge of timelines or ActionScript is necessary for this purpose. Since QuarkXPress is natively capable of creating HTML projects, this allows web designers to design and build their HTML and Flash elements and combine them all in a single application. Resulting files can be exported as SWF Flash files or standalone Projector applications for macOS or Windows . Quark Interactive Designer makes use of palette-based actions, similar to those found in PowerPoint , in order to animate text and graphics. It also allows some use of button-triggered behaviors and embedding of QuickTime and Flash Video , and audio files. Tim Gill Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953)

240-454: A RIP. The RIP generates the final raster image that will be printed directly (as in desktop inkjet or laser printing), set to photographic film or paper (using an imagesetter ), or transferred direct-to-plate . Depending on the hardware and software components and configurations, RIPs can experience problems rasterizing the image data contained in PostScript or PDF files. If there is

288-813: A color picker tool. QuarkXPress 2017 continued the new naming scheme and established an annual release cycle. The headline features include non-destructive image editing, various typography enhancements such as text stroking and text shading, responsive HTML5, and unlimited iOS apps for no additional cost (outside of the Apple Developer fees). Other user-requested features included adaptive layout conversion for print, smart quotes, and proportional leading. On March 1, 2018, Quark announced QuarkXPress 2018, stating it would be available on May 16, 2018. The headline features in version 2018 include new OpenType controls, hyphenation strictness, support for color fonts, IDML import (to convert Adobe InDesign documents to QuarkXPress) and

336-559: A completely new user interface, support for drag and drop, PDF 1.7 import, AI Import and a global file format. Design grids can be assigned to pages and boxes to allow unlimited baseline grids. Hanging characters can be applied and customized by character and amount to hang outside the box. This is the first version to include built-in Adobe Flash authoring. Designers can create Flash content including sound, video, animation and interactivity without programming. In October 2008, QuarkXPress 8 won

384-620: A conference every two years to discuss philanthropic strategies. Since the U.S. Supreme Court 's legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, Gill has shifted his focus to securing non-discrimination protections in the 28 states where it is still legal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in housing, employment and public accommodations. Gill is credited with developing a bipartisan strategy for securing non-discrimination protections in traditionally Republican states. In 2015, Gill, Paul Singer and Daniel Loeb , helped fund Freedom for All Americans to advocate for non-discrimination protections on

432-455: A failure in rasterizing the image, it can be costly, as output systems (printers, plate-setters, etc.) consume expensive supplies, can require extensive amounts of time to process complex image data, and require skilled labor to operate. The process of preflighting a file helps reduce the likelihood of rasterization problems that cause production delays. Page layout software applications (which allow users to combine images, graphics, and text from

480-727: A freshman at the University of Colorado at Boulder . He volunteered for the campus gay-liberation group and later supported local HIV/AIDS awareness. In 1992, he continued his involvement in LGBTQ political action in response to the passage of Colorado Amendment 2 , which prevented non-discrimination ordinances in the state from protecting people based on sexual orientation and which the United States Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional in its 1996 ruling in Romer v. Evans . He

528-606: A shrinking user base, Quark started to lower its pricing levels in 2004. In December 2006, Quark licensed the Windows version of QuarkXPress 5 to be distributed for free on the cover of a UK computer magazine, Computer Shopper , with the idea of enticing consumers to upgrade to later versions. Having arrived late with a Mac OS X version, Quark took a different approach to porting to Intel-native applications on Mac (Universal Binary), and released its Universal Binary version 7 months before Adobe ported InDesign. QuarkXPress 9 won Product of

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576-671: A similar feature in InDesign . Composition zones feature makes it the only desktop application with multi-user capabilities by allowing multiple users to edit different zones on the same page. Composition Zones pushes collaboration a step further than just simultaneous text/picture (as possible with Quark CopyDesk since 1991), as it allows layout and graphic elements to be edited outside the layout application. User-defined rules, output specs, and layout specs can be used for intelligent templates and enable resource sharing (for example, server-based style sheet definitions). Version 6.5, released at

624-410: A standard for printing companies to follow to help to reduce costly errors and thus was a great benefit to the publishing industry. Eventually, preflighting software entered the marketplace to assist designers and publishers in efficiently publishing electronic files. Early preflight methods were largely manual, and typically relied on checklists that highly skilled prepress operators would use to verify

672-399: A variety of formats) automate portions of the preflight process. Typically, client-provided materials are verified by a preflight operator for completeness and to confirm that the incoming materials meet the production requirements. The pre-flight process checks for: Other, more advanced preflight steps might also include: The specifics of what checks are made are governed by the features of

720-786: Is allowed within a box with an accuracy of one-thousandth of an inch. Color control allows the full-use of printing-press standard Pantone or Hexachrome inks, along with a variety of other color-space options. Draft output can be printed on conventional desktop printers. Process color ( CMYK ) separation films can be produced for printing-presses. QuarkXPress also offers the ability for composite work-flows, both with PostScript and PDF output. QuarkXPress offers layout synchronization, multiple undo/redo functionality, XML and web page ( HTML ) features, and support for direct PDF import and output. Documents can be verified ( pre-flight ) before printing. This high-level print preview automatically identifies conflicts and other printing problems. Adobe has

768-454: Is an American computer software programmer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and LGBTQ rights activist. He was among the first openly gay people to be on the Forbes 400 list of America's richest people. He is the founder and co-chair of the Gill Foundation , a private Denver-based philanthropic organization supporting efforts to secure nationwide civil rights for LGBTQ Americans. As of 2019, he

816-640: Is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Josh.ai . Tim Gill was born in Hobart, Indiana , and moved to Colorado with his family when he was in third grade. He attended Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado , eventually studying computer science and applied mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder . Gill is the founder of the Gill Foundation , Gill Action Fund , and OutGiving. Gill first became involved in LGBTQ activism as

864-468: Is widely credited as a visionary strategist and mega-donor who has made significant contributions to virtually every major LGBTQ rights victory in the United States, from the 2003 Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health decision making Massachusetts the first U.S. state to allow same-sex marriage, to the U.S. Supreme Court 's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing same-sex marriage throughout

912-509: The Gill Action Fund , which is separate from the charitable endeavors of the foundation. The political fund has helped to elect hundreds of pro-equality lawmakers across the country at the local, state, and federal levels. In 2006, its first election year, the fund helped defeat 50 of the 70 anti-LGBTQ candidates it targeted. The fund also contributed to the successful 2016 election campaign of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper , who defeated

960-529: The National Park Service to identify historically significant places related to LGBTQ history for potential inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places or designation as a National Monument . After jobs at Hewlett-Packard and a consulting services firm, Gill started the company Quark, Inc. in 1981 with a $ 2,000 loan from his parents. Quark produced page layout software for

1008-865: The U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein . Gill is an avid snowboarder. In 1996, Gill received the University of Colorado Distinguished Service Award for his work supporting HIV/AIDS research. Macworld awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Gill was awarded the NOGLSTP GLBT Engineer of the Year Award in 2007. In September 2007, People for the American Way awarded Gill its Spirit of Liberty Award. Gill received Liberty Hill Foundation 's Upton Sinclair award in 2011. Colorado Governor Jared Polis awarded Gill

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1056-483: The Colorado 2019 Vanguard Legacy Governor's citizenship Medal. In August 2020, he was honored with Family Equality’s Murray/Reese Family Award. Pre-flight (printing) In printing , Preflight is the process of confirming that the digital files required for the printing process are all present, valid, correctly formatted, and of the desired type. The basic idea is to prepare the files to make them feasible for

1104-1183: The LGBTQ community in political activities. Connexion closed in September 2011. In March 2015, Gill co-founded the smart home technology start-up JStar LLC. He is the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of the company. JStar's flagship product is Josh.ai , a voice-controlled home automation system using JStar's own artificial intelligence technology platform. The company is headquartered in Denver with offices in Los Angeles . In July 2017, JStar announced an additional $ 8 million in private investment to create original hardware to compete with Google Home , Amazon Echo , and other devices with intelligent assistants inside. Josh.ai can be used through Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, Google Home, and iOS and Android apps. Gill married his husband, Scott Miller , in Massachusetts in 2009. They live in Denver, Colorado with their dog. In 2022, Gill's husband Scott Miller became

1152-571: The MacUser Award for Print Publishing Software of the Year. With version 9 QuarkXPress extended its crossmedia publishing approach and can be used now to also export to eBooks ( ePub 3 and Blio ) and native apps (for the iPad ). With App Studio, which is shipped with QuarkXPress, designers can even create and design their own apps. Additionally QuarkXPress 9 offers cascading styles (stylesheets based on text content), callouts (anchored objects that flow with

1200-457: The RIP. This is an important step because it prevents production delays caused by missing materials or improperly prepared materials. Once the incoming materials have passed the pre-flight check, they are ready to be put into production and sent to the RIP. Files were originally printed as Adobe PostScript ; however in modern workflows, PDF files have become the popular file type for submitting data to

1248-619: The Year in 2011 (MacWorld Awards 2011: Grand Prix Winner). From 2015 to 2022, QuarkXPress updated on an annual cycle. Since 2023, QuarkXPress releases on a bi-annual basis. The package provides the basic functionality of font, alignment, spacing, and color, but it also provides its users with professional typesetting options such as kerning , curving text along a line, and ligatures . A QuarkXPress document contains text and graphics boxes. The boxes can be reshaped, layered, and given varying levels of transparency and text alignment ( runaround ). Both box positioning and graphic or text positioning

1296-514: The ability to create unlimited Android apps for no additional cost (outside of the Google Play fees). On November 14, 2023,  the company released QuarkXPress 2024's, including integration with 1,500 Google fonts, a new Visual Fonts and Picture Links palette, macOS Sonoma compatibility, image format support for WebP, HEIF and HEIC, local image libraries support, IDML export format, GREP support, and enhanced Right-to-Left language capabilities. In

1344-413: The basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in states and local communities across the country. Freedom for All Americans has successfully enlisted the support of businesses and corporations to work with Republican-held state legislatures to reject or overturn anti-LGBTQ legislation. The organization borrows the state-focused model of Freedom to Marry , the grassroots organizations that directed

1392-483: The beginning of 2003 Quark released a server version of QuarkXPress, originally called QuarkDDS. Renamed in 2006 to "QuarkXPress Server", the product is now primarily sold with Quark Publishing Platform – the central hub of the company's content automation solutions. QuarkXPress Server is a Java application that takes content components (text, images, video, data, charts, etc.) and automatically assembles them into different formats from PDFs to responsive HTML and Web apps. As

1440-530: The company in 1999 for a reported $ 500 million. The release of QuarkXPress version 5 in 2002 led to disappointment from Apple's user base, as QuarkXPress did not support Mac OS X , while Adobe InDesign 2.0—launched in the same week—did. QuarkXPress also lost marketshare due to an increasing price gap between it and InDesign. InDesign CS cost $ 699, while QuarkXPress 6 cost $ 945. The later Adobe Creative Suite (2003), which users purchased for access to Photoshop and Illustrator , included InDesign. In response to

1488-516: The content is assembled into templates using granular content components, the output can be highly customized for different audiences in terms of the content and the brand. The system relies on XML . Quark Interactive Designer is an extension and tool for creating Adobe Flash context from QuarkXPress documents. It enables the export QuarkXPress projects in SWF (Flash) file format. This allows documents created for print or web production to also be output as

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1536-460: The correct process such as offset printing and eliminate costly errors and facilitate a smooth production. It is a standard prepress procedure in the printing industry (as it is imposition). The term originates from the preflight checklists used by pilots. The term was first used in a presentation at the Color Connections conference in 1990 by consultant Chuck Weger, and Professor Ron Bertolina

1584-464: The country. Gill, along with Pat Stryker , Jared Polis and Rutt Bridges —called by the press the "Gang of Four"—together donated significant funds in support of Democratic organizations in Colorado, which many believe helped to flip control of the state legislature to Democratic control in 2004. In July 2017, Gill was the subject of a profile by journalist Andy Kroll for Rolling Stone magazine titled "The Quiet Crusader: How Tim Gill turned

1632-535: The end of 2004, added enhanced support for the Photoshop format (PSD). The PSD integration and picture manipulation features led to QuarkXPress receiving a number of awards, such as the Macworld Editor's Choice for 2004. Version 7 added support for OpenType , Unicode , JDF , and also PDF/X -export. QuarkXPress 7 also added unique features, such as native transparency at the color level. QuarkXPress 8 introduced

1680-535: The fight for same-sex marriage equality from state to state leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court 's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision. In 1998, Gill endowed the Tim Gill Professorship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado 's medical school to support HIV research and education. In 2016, Tim Gill directed funding from the foundation to support a comprehensive theme study by

1728-477: The graphics market. With the introduction of Fred Ebrahimi as CEO in 1986, and the launch of the company's flagship page layout software, QuarkXPress , in 1987, Gill became a multi-millionaire. Gill sold his fifty percent interest in Quark in 1999 for a reported $ 500 million, citing his growing involvement in philanthropic and activist endeavors. In 2003, Gill created Connexion.org, a social media platform for engaging

1776-436: The incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. Gill prioritized unseating McCrory after he championed and passed the anti-LGBTQ HB2 "bathroom bill," which forced transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding with their sex at birth rather than their gender identity . In 1996, Gill founded OutGiving, a private, invitation-only philanthropic conference, to bring major pro-LGBTQ philanthropists together. OutGiving holds

1824-469: The older Carbon API to Cocoa. It also included a new, modern graphics engine, Xenon. During the lifecycle of version 10, new features included Retina Display support, PDF pass-through transparency, notes, redlining, increased zoom (8000%) and the ability to create HTML5 animations for inclusion in App Studio tablet and smartphone apps. QuarkXPress 2015 was the first version to use a different naming scheme. It

1872-621: The preflight application, the formats of the client-provided files, and the targeted output device, as well as the printing specifications. A purpose-built software application is not required to preflight a file, although several commercial applications are available. Many desktop publishing applications have some type of preflight capability; however, they may not be as robust as commercial applications, such as FlightCheck by Markzware Inc. Many printers and publishers utilize high-end preflight and file optimization solutions rather than relying on those within desktop publishing apps. They will make sure

1920-545: The preflight settings match their specific production requirements. Professor Ron Bertolina was a pioneer of the preflighting concept in electronic publishing. In the mid-1990s, he wrote published technical articles and conducted workshops across the US on preflighting for the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation. His preflight checklist, included in the article "Preflighting Digital Files" for GATFWorld magazine, became

1968-440: The production readiness of each incoming job. As desktop publishing and graphics applications, PDLs , RIPs, and output devices evolved, the process became more complex. Software plug-ins and stand-alone applications that supported the major desktop publishing applications were then developed to meet that need, along with proprietary tools made by hardware manufacturers and commercial printers and service bureaus. The developers of

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2016-436: The text based on position rules), create complex ad editable Bézier paths using a wizard (ShapeMaker), bullets and numbers (with import and export from/to Microsoft Word ) and more. The Mac version of QuarkXPress 9 is for Intel processors only, making QuarkXPress 8.5.1 the last choice for PPC-based Macs. QuarkXPress 10, was described by Quark as a major re-write of the software on the Mac platform in particular to move it from

2064-461: Was a pioneer for solutions to preflighting in the 1990s. In a common digital prepress workflow, a collection of computer files provided by clients will be translated from an application-specific format such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress to a format that the raster image processor (RIP) can interpret. But before this rasterization occurs, workers in the prepress department confirm the incoming materials to make sure they are ready to be sent to

2112-489: Was completely 64-bit and added fixed-layout ePub and Kindle export as well as exporting layouts as PDF/X-4. Quark claimed to have added the top 10 of all user-requested features. QuarkXPress 2016 included the ability to import and copy and paste from other applications and file formats to native QuarkXPress objects. The release also includes revamped digital capabilities including being able to create HTML5 Publications. Top user requested features include multi-gradient blends and

2160-419: Was one of the first examples of a developer allowing others to create software add-ons for their application. Although competitors like PageMaker existed, QuarkXPress was so dominant that it had an estimated 95% market share during the 1990s. After QuarkXPress 3.3, QuarkXPress was seen as needing significant improvements and users criticized it for its overly long innovation cycles. Gill sold his 50% stake in

2208-469: Was seen as stable and trouble-free, working seamlessly with Adobe's PostScript fonts as well as with Apple's TrueType fonts. Quark's AppleScript support was a significant factor in both Quark's and AppleScript's success. In 1989, QuarkXPress incorporated an application programming interface called XTensions which allows third-party developers to create custom add-on features to the desktop application. Xtensions, along with Adobe 's Photoshop plugins ,

2256-539: Was the single largest individual donor to the LGBTQ rights movement in U.S. history, having personally committed more than $ 500 million since the early 1990s. Gill is also the founder of the pioneering page layout software company Quark, Inc. Gill sold his fifty percent stake in the company in 1999 for a reported $ 500 million. Following the sale of his stake in Quark, Inc. , Gill set aside sixty percent of his assets – more than $ 300 million – to fight for LGBTQ rights . He

2304-595: Was to build LGBTQ public acceptance through support of mainstream projects in Colorado . The foundation established the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado in 1996, which provides financial support to a variety of non-profit organizations in the state. In addition to LGBTQ equality, the foundation focuses on providing STEM education to every Colorado student, curbing predatory lending and increasing financial literacy, and supporting public media. In 2005, Tim Gill established

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