Quark's AppleScript support was a significant factor in both Quark's and AppleScript's success. In particular, the Mac version of 3.3 (released in 1996) was seen as stable and trouble-free, working seamlessly with Adobe's PostScript fonts as well as with Apple's TrueType fonts. In the 1990s, QuarkXPress became widely used by professional page designers, the typesetting industry, and printers. Five years passed before a Microsoft Windows version (3.1) followed in 1992. The first version of QuarkXPress was released in 1987 for the Macintosh. More recent versions have added support for ebooks, Web and mobile apps. QuarkXPress is used by individual designers, large publishing houses and corporates to produce a variety of layouts, from single-page flyers to the multi-media projects required for magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and the like. The most recent version, QuarkXPress 2019 (internal version number 15.0), allows publishing in English ('International and U.S.') and 36 other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, German, Korean, Russian, French, and Spanish. in 1987 and is still owned and published by them. QuarkXPress is a desktop publishing software for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment.
