Digital Preview Improvements: New responsive HTML5 Preview options are available when authoring in QuarkXPress 2018, including: Page Preview, Layout Preview, Project Preview.This includes support for type styles (Outline, Shadow), Tables as HTML tables, Anchored text boxes, grouped boxes and Tables, non-solid rules, footnote separators and Index entries as Hyperlinks. HTML5 Export Optimizations: HTML5 Publications and ePub now export even more items as native HTML5 elements.*Google Play Store Developer Account required, which requires associated costs.
Create Android Single Apps: QuarkXPress 2018 expands on the ability to create unlimited iOS single apps by adding support for creating unlimited single apps for Android devices – completely free, directly from the desktop, no server, no login, no additional cost.*.Use it to, for example, convert all typed URLs to active hyperlinks or to change text using regular expressions (GREP). Go further by modifying layout objects using the QuarkXPress document object model (DOM API) that is very similar to the HTML DOM. Write cross platform JavaScripts (build on modern ECMAScript version 8) to automate repetitive tasks and access capabilities beyond the user interface. Built-in modern JavaScript v8: Scriptability and extensibility have always been core values of QuarkXPress.
The new PDF engine, combined with new tools for accessibility, make this possible. HTML5 is an obvious choice however often workflows require accessible PDFs. Tagged/Accessible PDF: Accessibility compliant PDFs are not just important but often mandatory.