QuarkXPress Passport is the multi-language version of the standard or single language QuarkXPress. It contains all the features of the standard QuarkXPress plus additional support for multi-language publishing, including multiple dictionaries and a user interface that can be set for any of the languages supported by Passport.

QuarkXPress Passport files can be saved so that the standard single language QuarkXPress can open and read it. When saving a file, QuarkXPress Passport offers you the option to save the file as either “multiple language” or “single language”. If you choose “multiple language” only QuarkXPress Passport will be able to read the file. If you choose “single language” then the standard version of QuarkXPress will be able to open and read it.

Make sure that the QuarkXPress Passport file is saved in a compatible version. For example, if you have QuarkXPress 5, the person using Passport has to save the QuarkXPress document as version 5 or earlier, or you won’t be able to open it.

But, What is this “Multiple Language” Option?
QuarkXPress Passport allows you to use different languages in one document. This means that if you have Italian, German and Spanish in the same document, you will be able to apply the correct hyphenation as it applies to those languages. So you won’t wind up hyphenating German words following Italian grammatical rules or vice versa.

You can also read this article and related ones on About Desktop Publishing.

If you didn’t go to the Macworld conference and have not yet read the news about it, here are some articles you can read so you can get in the know.

As bias as I am, being one of their Editors, I am going to show you first the coverage by Designorati. Our In-House Editor, Vadim Litvak attended the conference and has provided rather detailed information about it:

• Macworld Conference: Quark Releases QuarkXPress 7 Beta Program
  Tuesday, January 10—Quark announces the QuarkXPress 7 public beta program at the Macworld conference. Though the program is not yet released in its final form…
• Macworld Conference: A New Update for OS X Tiger, an Overview of Aperture and iLife 06
  After the overview of Apple’s achievements in the digital music market with iTunes and iPod, Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, moved onto the enhancements of Apple software…
• Macworld Conference: iPods and iTunes Rule the Digital Music Market
  Where did you buy your mp3s? I could tell you that you have probably purchased them from iTunes and I’d be correct 85 times out 100…
• Macworld Conference: The Goods
  The Powerbook is dead, viva la MacBook Pro. The Macbook Pro comes with 2 Intel processors, at 4-5x faster than the Powerbook. Apple touts it as the fastest notebook ever…

Because Quark released the beta version of QuarkXPress 7 I have taken this opportunity to have a look at the program as it stands so far. Have a look at my review of the QuarkXPress 7 Beta.

Macworld.com provided live coverage during the expo. You can see it here. This site also has plenty of articles about the new releaeses of the conference and it’s a great resource for those who want to find out everything about it.

Do you want to see the MacBook Pro in action? Know how good (or bad) iLife 06 is? Do you want a post-Macworld report? Then check out The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

There are tons of other sites that cover the Macworld expo, but you not only risk to spend the rest of your life reading them all, I’d do the same providing all the links here. So what about watching the expo itself? You can with Apple’s webcast.

All right I tricked you. I wanted you to read the resources I provided before telling you that you could watch the expo itself. I just wanted to share with you the articles I spent time finding. If you didn’t make it there, hopefully these will make up for it. Enjoy your conference.

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