Quark Inc. today announced availability of the QuarkXPress 7.31 updater, a maintenance release of the company's industry-leading professional design software.

"We are committed to providing our customers with increased value and functionality with regular maintenance releases of QuarkXPress 7," said Jürgen Kurz, Quark's senior vice president of product development. "With this latest update, QuarkXPress 7 is the only creative design and page layout software on the market today that is both certified on Windows Vista as well as updated for compatibility with the recently launched Mac OS X Leopard. We also introduced enhancements that will enable designers to create materials with even greater speed and efficiency."

Compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista
In developing its latest release, Quark worked closely with Apple to ensure that QuarkXPress 7.31 is tested and optimized to run on Mac OS X Leopard, released by Apple late last month. In addition, Quark received certification of compatibility for QuarkXPress 7 to run on the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system with the release of QuarkXPress 7.31. Designers using QuarkXPress 7 to create materials on Windows Vista can now have a confidence in the performance of their design and page layout software that is unmatched by any other product on the market.

QuarkXPress 7 Performance Enhancements
Significant enhancements and fixes introduced in QuarkXPress 7.31 enable users to:

• Correct capitalization errors at the beginning and within a sentence

• Find and correct duplicate words
• Find and correct spacing errors after punctuation
• Ignore Internet and file addresses when spellchecking
• Ignore words with numbers when spellchecking

The QuarkXPress Passport 7.31 updater also includes:

• Spell checking and hyphenation support for Norwegian (Bokmål) and Norwegian (Nynorsk) languages.

• Spell checking in German, Reformed German, and Swiss German that finds and corrects capitalization errors at the beginning and within a sentence.

For a complete list of issues resolved in QuarkXPress 7.31, please visit http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/731issuesresolved.html. Existing QuarkXPress 7 users can download a free update to QuarkXPress 7.31 by visiting http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/731update.html.

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, QuarkXPress, changed the course of traditional publishing. Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.