Quark has released an upgrade to its flagship QuarkXPress product following prerelease testing.

The company describes version 10.2 as a “significant update” addressing reported performance and output issues. It is available free to version 10 users.

Quark says the upgrade is fast, renders stunning images and enables users to optimise their environment for onscreen image display and performance. It also introduces new collaboration and productivity features.

A Xenon graphics engine renders rich PDFs, Photoshop and TIFF images at “the maximum and most appropriate” resolution, with the ability to choose maximum performance over highest display quality.

New features include Redlining to track changes, a Notes facility to store comments in a project without affecting content, importing and exporting of hyphenation exceptions, and removal of the limit on anchored boxes.

Ready for PDF/X-4, Quark says 10.2 output passes all version 4 Ghent Workgroup output tests, important for PDF/X-4 based workflows.