There are a variety of programs for the layout of newspapers and magazines. But professionals prefer well-known products that are the most powerful on the market. What are these programs? Adobe InDesign and Quark Xpress. We will discuss them further.
Program for layout of the newspaper and magazine Quark Xpress
This development is the perfect tool necessary for the preparation of publications of any media projects. It is used by millions of people around the world. These are designers of small companies, and layout designers who work in major publishers. All of them praise the many features and capabilities of the program.
The latest version received an excellent innovation - the ability to work with tablets and other popular mobile devices from a variety of manufacturers. This feature has turned the program into the only multi-platform layout tool in the publishing industry.
Key features
The new version of this program for layout has such features:
- Support for conditional styles. These are the styles with which certain pieces of text are drawn up based on the rules set by the layout designer. And all this happens automatically. Thus, you can get the finished layout in a couple of minutes.
- Setting automatically changing numbering when adding or removing items. Layouts can be imported into Word without losing bullets and numbering.
- Using callouts. This function allows you to bind any element or group to a page or a specific place in the text. If earlier it was necessary to manually make any changes with notes and quotes, now it is feasible using automatic settings.
- The ability to edit text, select the font and size, set line spacing in an additional window. All changes made will be saved in the original layout.
Adobe InDesign
The popularity of this layout program extends throughout the world. After all, the developer on the market is just a giant. This is the best program of its kind. It has built-in support for the Russian language, unlike Quark. This is a universal application. It provides the most precise control over typography and design. With it, you can create expressive layouts for a variety of screens. When adapting to different formats, high image quality is maintained.
List of program features
There are a lot of them:
- A feature called “Liquid Layout” makes it easy to design and create versions of the layout for different devices, as well as printed materials. Moreover, all this is done in one file.
- Content can be linked even if it is contained in several documents. This makes it possible to apply changes to the parent text or the object to all child elements associated with it.
- Text can be extracted from an existing layout using special tools for collecting content.
- The ability to add interactive HTML content to layouts is a very interesting feature of the InDesign magazine layout program.
- Projects can be compiled while retaining features such as overlays.
- Support for integration with other company products. You can easily implement a wide variety of products.
- Improved features for exporting PDF documents.
As can be seen from the review, despite the possibility of choice, layout programs are in different weight categories. Most choose a product from Adobe. But Quark does not need to be discounted, since the program is becoming more convenient with each update. Other analogues, although they are striving to take their place in the market, are still difficult for giants to reach.