The QuarkXPress 8 Xperience design tour, which will run until October, got under way at the end of June with a first-ever customer event at the company's global headquarters in Denver.

Attendees from Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, the US and Latin America, will all be given the opportunity to experience QuarkXPress 8 over the summer.

Terry Welty, senior vice president of corporate marketing, said: "We've had an amazing response to the recent launch of QuarkXPress 8 at Drupa in Germany and from the customers and media around the world.

"Now with its easy support for global publishing and QuarkXPress 8 being the first ever simultaneous global release of QuarkXPress, a global tour was an obvious choice."

Quark's Xperience tour will span 58 cities in 30 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland and the UK.