New Version of QuarkXPress for Windows Delivers Greater Performance and
Superior Color Capabilities

April 13, 1993--BOSTON--Quark, Inc. has responded to a growing demand for
Windows color capabilities and greater overall program performance by
announcing the forthcoming release of QuarkXPress 3.2 for Windows. The new
version will include a number of new color-related features, including the
EfiColor XTension from Electronics for Imaging, Inc. when this technology
becomes available for the PC. In addition, version 3.2 runs substantially
faster than version 3.1 and offers users more than 20 new features. The
new version of QuarkXPress for Windows will closely follow the release of
QuarkXPress 3.2 for Macintosh, which is scheduled to ship during the
second quarter of 1993.

"High-end color publishing has arrived under Windows," said David Ambler,
product manager for the Windows version of QuarkXPress. Ambler said that
QuarkXPress users who take advantage of the EfiColor XTension will be
assured of consistent color across multiple applications and output
devices. "Color is evolving rapidly under Windows, and the new
capabilities we are offering in version 3.2 will empower our users with a
wide range of new color tools that are unprecedented on the PC."

Fred Ebrahimi, Quark's president, refers to the explosion of color
publishing as the "democratization" of color. "Version 3.2 makes full
color more accessible, from the standpoint of both cost and ease of use.
We think this is a great opportunity for both Quark and EFI. What
QuarkXPress did for typography, version 3.2 will do for color."

Adam Stock, EFl's product manager for EfiColor feels that the color
capabilities EFI will be offering Windows users represents a tremendous
challenge and opportunity. "This opens up new latitudes for PC users. Many
of the tools we will be offering the Windows community were previously
available only on expensive proprietary systems or other platforms."

Some of the QuarkXPress 3.2 features include:

Performance Upgrade

The code for QuarkXPress 3.2 has been optimized to assure that all tasks
performed in the new version will be accomplished with greater speed.

Collect for Output 

This new feature enables users to save a document and all imported graphic
files in a user-specified folder for transport to a service bureau. A data
file containing information about the document is automatically generated
and saved with the files required to print the document.

Auto-Backup 

When Auto-backup is enabled, QuarkXPress automatically saves a complete
copy of a document to a user-specified folder. The user can specify the
number of revisions that are saved.

Save Page As EPS 

First available in version 3.1, this feature has been enhanced with the
addition of a pop-up menu that allows you to save pages in the following
graphic formats: PC Color, PC B&W, PC DCS, PC DCS 2.0, Mac Color, Mac B&W,
Mac DCS, and Mac DCS 2.0.

Next Style 

To facilitate text formatting, this feature allows users to link style
sheets. Entering a paragraph return automatically applies the next style
sheet.

Interactive Text Resizing 

Users can resize text proportionally or disproportionally by dragging a
text box handle.

Drag-and-Drop Editing 

Users can cut and paste or copy and paste highlighted text by simply
clicking, dragging, and releasing the mouse button.

Color Swatch Drag 

Users can apply color to text box and picture box backgrounds, frames, and
lines by dragging a color swatch from the Colors palette and dropping it
on the selected item.

New PANTONE Color Sets 

Version 3.2 adds three new color PANTONE models. PANTONE ProSim uses
PANTONE four-color process colors to simulate the PANTONE Matching System
colors; PANTONE Uncoated configures the PANTONE matching system
specifically for uncoated paper, and PANTONE Process provides a color
model with 3,000 color builds using PANTONE process colors.

Box Skew 

To create unusual effects, QuarkXPress 3.2 provides the ability to slant
text and picture boxes. Boxes can be skewed from -75 degrees to 75 degrees
in .001 degree increments.

Vertical Character Scale 

In addition to being able to scale characters horizontally, users can now
scale characters vertically from 25 percent to 400 percent of normal
height.

Cool Blends 

To increase options for two-color blends, QuarkXPress 3.2 includes an
XTension that adds five options to the Color Blend pop-up menu in the
Colors palette: Mid-Linear, Rectangular, Diamond, Circular, and Full
Circular.

EfiColor XTension 

The EfiColor XTension will provide the ability to separate imported
continuous-tone color images from within QuarkXPress. It also assures
consistent color matching across a wide array of display and output
devices (including offset presses) by using device-specific color
profiles. The EfiColor profiles contain characterization of a device's
color space as well as information about the capabilities and limitations
of each device. The XTension will alert the user if a color cannot be
displayed or printed by a device.

Using the EfiColor XTension, QuarkXPress users will be able to use low-end
color printers as proofing devices with greater predictability. The
XTension ensures that colors displayed on monitors will better match final
output and determines whether a particular output device can print a
particular color. In addition, EfiColor supports Metric Color Tags (MCT)
to read color information from TIFF and PostScript files.

Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFI) was founded in 1988 by Efi Arazi, the
founder and former CEO of Scitex Corporation, Ltd. The business of EFI is
to develop software and hardware which will enable individuals, business,
and professional publishers to author, design, and print
photographic-quality color documents. These products are designed to lower
the cost and skill level required to produce professional-quality color
print materials, thus enabling the widespread use of color by desktop
publishing users.

Based in Denver, Colorado, Quark, Inc. develops and distributes software
products for commercial publishing and graphic arts professionals around
the world. Founded in 1981, Quark is privately held.

Quark Inc, 1800 Grant St, Denver, CO 80203
303-894-8888;   fax 303-894-3399

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