QuarkXPress Licenses Eased For Different Platforms

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Nov 28, 2006

Quark has announced the introduction of platform-independent licenses and packaging for QuarkXPress 7.

Quark has announced the introduction of platform-independent licenses and packaging for QuarkXPress 7.

The change is claimed by Quark to be a result of the it's commitment to improve licensing policies and procedures for customers and sales partners.

Jurgen Kurz, Quark's senior vice president of desktop products, said: "In an effort to provide our customers with the most efficient and effective way to use QuarkXPress at home and at work, we are providing platform-independent licensing.

Creative minds should be free to design and innovate on any platform and Quark is continuing to provide that freedom with our creative tools." Quark said it has listened to customer needs by introducing the platform-independent licensing.

Now, individual QuarkXPress users can double-activate one license on different platforms at no additional cost; customers can use the same QuarkXPress 7 license on Windows or Mac OS - or both, added the company.

In addition, because of another recent change regarding Quark licenses, previous versions of QuarkXPress can run under the same license when users are upgrading to QuarkXPress 7.

In connection with the change, separate part numbers for the Mac OS and Windows versions of QuarkXPress 7 and the part codes for platform cross-grades - changing from one platform to another - are no longer required and will be phased out.

All orders will be fulfilled using a platform-independent validation code.