Quark has announced QuarkXPress 10. The newest release of the page layout and design software, is now available to purchase directly from Quark through the online Quark Store, Quark Telesales and Quark Authorized Resellers.

QuarkXPress 10 is a native Cocoa app that leverages the latest OS X features, and offers maximized performance and can rapidly support new OS X releases, according to Gavin Drake, vice president of Marketing, Quark Software. The state-of-the-art graphics engine renders rich PDFs, Photoshop and TIFF images and uses its Adaptive Resolution feature to deliver designers the most appropriate onscreen resolution in real-time, he adds.

What's more, every element of QuarkXPress 10 has been optimized to take full advantage of high-resolution Retina displays like those found on the MacBook Pro. The upgrade continues to support ePub and Kindle, as well as out-of-the-box HTML5 authoring for App Studio, a cloud-based solution for creating iOS, Android, and Web apps.

The QR Code Creator lets you generate, style, and color vector Quick Response (QR) codes directly within QuarkXPress. Every edition of QuarkXPress 10 supports East Asian typography, including vertical story text, phonetic text reading (rubi) font sets, character grids and more.

Finally, there are more than 50 feature enhancements, including PDF pass-through transparency, print preview, Bezier tool enhancement, layers enhancements and h more. A complete overview of QuarkXPress 10 is available at www.quark.com/10 .

QuarkXPress 9 customers who pre-ordered QuarkXPress 10 will receive upgrade information directly by email. QuarkXPress users on versions 3-8 who upgraded to version 9 through the Buy 9, Get 10 promotion should make sure they have completed the online redemption form: www.quark.com/Buy9Get10 . Customers who have already completed the redemption form do not need to do so again and will receive upgrade information by email soon.