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Kingdom’s daily opts for QuarkXPress™ & ArabicXT™
Prestigious Jeddah-based Okaz newspaper switches to QuarkXPress™ with ArabicXT™ 5.0
Dubai, October 2002: Layout Middle East, the sole distributor for QuarkXPress in the region, has announced that Okaz, one of the Kingdom’s largest newspapers, has decided to use QuarkXPress with ArabicXT for its production department.
"With the release of QuarkXPress with ArabicXT 5.0, a large number of publishers are upgrading to this professional new version," said Joe Karkour, Area Manager, Layout Middle East.
ArabicXT™ turns QuarkXPress™ into an Arabic desktop publishing software. ArabicXT takes care of right-to-left language requirements by accommodating all features of QuarkXPress and with no need for an Arabic operating system. It requires no additional training for QuarkXPress users. ArabicXT is very widely used by professional advertising agencies, publishing houses and large newspapers and magazines
"Running a production department in a newspaper is a demanding job, and busy publishing houses do not have time to become a testing ground for new and un-proven products," said Hadi Rayes, Sales Manager for Copatra Graphics, country distributor for Layout Middle East in Saudi Arabia. "Okaz opted for QuarkXPress (the market’s de facto standard in DTP today) with ArabicXT despite its higher prices."
According to Rayes, the product was selected after extensive testing and comparison between various other DTP solutions available today. The newspaper had just installed two new computer to plate setters from AGFA and needed a professional and reliable production software like QuarkXPress to minimize errors and plate waste.
Copatra Graphics, carried out the installation. This adoption follows the successful implementation of QuarkXPress in other leading dailies in the Kingdom including Al Riyadh, Al Watan and Al Madina newspapers.
Quark, QuarkXPress and QuarkXTensions are trademarks of Quark, Inc. registered in the U.S. Trademark and Patent office About Quark ArabicXT is a registered trademark of Layout Ltd. In Lebanon and in other countries.
About Quark
Quark Inc. (euro.quark.com) is a leading developer of tools and technologies for media-independent publishing. Quark has been providing award-winning software for professional publishing since its flagship product QuarkXPress changed the course of traditional publishing. Today, as its software is used by more than two million customers around the world, Quark is developing the next generation of tools to let publishers create and manage content flexibly so it can be delivered anywhere at low cost.
Founded in 1981, Denver-based Quark Inc. is privately held.
About Layout Middle East
LayoutME of Dubai (UAE) (http://www.layoutme.com) is Quark's full service distributor in the Middle East and North Africa. Layout raises Arabic desktop publishing solutions to the same high standards as Western languages through its professional solutions for Mac OS and Windows platforms. Layout has offices in Beirut, Dubai, and Cairo.
For more information on this press release, please contact:
Layout Middle East:
Joseph Karkour
Tel: +971 4 3352002
E-mail: joe@layoutme.com
Market Buzz International:
Cyrus Roche
Tel: +971 4 3914873
E-mail: cyrus@themarketbuzz.net
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