With the acquisition, Quark has acquired ALAP’s products, which add valuable functionality to the Quark product family. In addition, ALAP founder Paul Schmitt has joined Quark as vice president of product development.

”There’s a strategic fit between the Quark and ALAP product lines, and our customers will see immediate benefit from the closer collaboration in development on QuarkXPress 7 and future products,” says Schmitt. “As a longstanding XTensions developer, we’re extremely familiar with Quark technology, and we’re confident that we’ll integrate our products into the Quark family very quickly.”

Interim president of Quark, Linda Chase, agrees it is an ideal strategic fit for both companies.

“ALAP’s popular imaging, impositioning, and productivity tools are a natural complement to QuarkXPress, and they put more useful features into the hands of our customers,” says Chase. “ALAP’s imaging technology will work with the outstanding QuarkVista technology in QuarkXPress, and adds sophisticated compositing and Photoshop support to QuarkXPress. We’ll also be able to put low cost impositioning software into the hands of our customers and deliver a more complete portfolio for automated digital workflows.”

The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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