QuarkXPress Server is often used for web-to-print in corporate intranets to enable customization and ordering of printed materials, advertising automation workflows in advertising agencies, catalog generation for retailers and variable digital printing for personalized marketing.

Style sheets are a common feature in most popular desktop publishing and word processing programs, including Arbortext, Corel Ventura, Adobe InDesign, Scribus, PageMaker, QuarkXPress and Microsoft Word, though they may be referred to using slightly different terminology.

In December 2006, Quark licensed the Windows version of QuarkXPress 5 to be distributed free of charge on the cover of a UK computer magazine, Computer Shopper, with the idea of enticing consumers to upgrade to later versions.

In the beginning of 2003 Quark released a server version of QuarkXPress, called QuarkDDS.

In 2006 Quark renamed QuarkDDS to " QuarkXPress Server ".

** QuarkXPress 6. 52 ( 2006 )-Bug fix release, released after release of Quark 7.

** QuarkXPress 7. 5 ( 2008 )-Bug fix release, released after release of Quark 8.

The term XTensions is a trademark of Quark, Inc. ( www. quark. com ) and describes a plugin for QuarkXPress, a popular page layout program.

In 2009, Quark, Inc. in association with Stepnet Ingénierie, a French software editor, developed a java based framework which gives web services to almost all QPS features and some of QuarkXPress ' ones, such as editing rich text, cropping high resolution pictures or generate PDF / X from standard QuarkXPress files within a QPS secured workflow.

QuarkXPress is used by individual designers and large publishing houses to produce a variety of layouts, from single-page flyers to the multi-media projects required for magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and the like.

While one publisher estimates that share has fallen to below 25 % and Adobe InDesign is now the market leader, QuarkXPress still has significant marketshare.

With App Studio, which is shipped with QuarkXPress, designers can even create and design their own apps.

The Mac version of QuarkXPress 9 is for Intel processors only, making QuarkXPress 8. 5. 1 the last choice for PPC-based Macs.

Today, Adobe's competition to QuarkXPress is Adobe InDesign.

In today's prepress shop, the form of delivery from the customer is usually electronic, either a PDF or application files created from such programs as Scribus, Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress.

However, it has a relatively small share of the desktop publishing market, which is dominated by Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress.

Desktop publishing software, such as QuarkXPress, InDesign, or PageMaker is specifically designed for such tasks.

* QuarkXPress – similar to Adobe InDesign, it is another desktop publishing software tool

An XTensions module is a little program that only runs inside QuarkXPress and enhances existing functionality or adds new functionality to the main program.

* " Layout and Design I " teaches computer production, including computer lettering ( Adobe Illustrator ), computer coloring ( Adobe Photoshop ), and page production ( QuarkXPress ).

Personal computer based applications including Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, and Wordperfect, use differing, non-standard systems of adding or subtracting letter-spacing.

Early on, QuarkXPress incorporated an application programming interface called XTensions which allows third-party developers to create custom add-on features to the desktop application.

Only with Version 6 QuarkXPress support Mac OS X, however the first really adopted version was QuarkXPress 7 ( which was also a Universal Binary application ).

As an application with strengths in more structured documents, its main competitors are FrameMaker, InDesign and QuarkXPress.

During the 1990s, QuarkXPress steadily won ground from PageMaker, and it seemed increasingly odd that Adobe — who had created PostScript, so vital to the working of DTP — still did not offer its own page layout application.

QuarkXPress 1. 0, which was first released in 1987, was — beside HyperCard — probably the first application ever to offer such an interface ( or API ) for plug-ins.

QuarkXPress once dominated the market for page layout software with over 95 % market share among professional users.

The first version of QuarkXPress was released in 1987 for the Macintosh.

After having released QuarkXPress 3. 3, QuarkXPress was seen as needing significant improvements and users criticized it for its overly long innovation cycles.

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 / XHTML ) features, and support for direct PDF import and output.

The PSD integration and picture manipulation features led to QuarkXPress receiving a number of awards, such as the Macworld Editor's Choice for 2004.

QuarkXPress 8 introduced a completely new user interface, support for drag and drop, PDF 1. 7 import, AI Import and a global file format.

In October 2008, QuarkXPress 8 won the MacUser Award for Print Publishing Software of the Year.

With the current version 9 QuarkXPress extended its crossmedia publishing approach and can be used now to also export to eBooks ( ePub3 and Blio ) and native apps ( for the iPad ).

* QuarkXPress 3 ( 1990 )-First version with measurement palette and support for libraries.

** QuarkXPress 3. 32 ( 1996 )-Support for QuarkImmedia.

** QuarkXPress 7. 01 ( 8 August 2006 )-First native version for Intel Macs ( Universal binary ), plus PPML support.

** QuarkXPress 7. 31 ( 2007 )-Certification on Windows Vista, support for Mac OS X v10. 5 (" Leopard "), enhancements to spell checking.

** QuarkXPress 7. 4 ( 2008 )-non public release, only for QPS customers.

** QuarkXPress 9. 1 ( 2011 )-Addition of " App Studio ", which allows to export multimedia apps for iPad out of QuarkXPress.