Under the hood, version 7.0 received a completely new text engine. This engine brought full support for Unicode and OpenType fonts, which was a massive leap forward for multilingual publishing and advanced typography. Instead of operating on a basic character level, the new engine worked with glyphs (the visual representation of a character), allowing for professional typographic features like automatic ligatures, small caps, old-style figures, and support for complex scripts and East Asian languages. This single update made QuarkXPress 7.0 infinitely more capable for international and high-end typographic work.
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October 26, 2023 Subject: Evaluation of QuarkXPress 7.0 Portable ("Better" Usage Contexts and Risks) Under the hood, version 7