Comments on: First Look At QuarkXPress 7

by: Pariah S. Burke

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:28:22 +0000

So would we all, Esteban. See here.

by: Esteban Báez

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:13:54 +0000

I would like to know when it’s going to be available .

by: Quark VS InDesign » ‘Innovate or Die’ Has Become Quark’s Mantra

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 19:23:30 +0000

[…] In response to “First Look At QuarkXPress 7,” layout artist and occassional Quark VS InDesign contributing writer Samuel John Klein observes: “ It’s past time Quark supported OpenType. Good decision, but like migration to OS X native, somewhat behind the curve, to say the least. ” […]

by: Pariah S. Burke

Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:42:25 +0000

Agreed.

As my response got lengthy, I moved it into a new post.

Quark needs to innovate, to be the first to do something instead of playing catch-up.

by: Samuel John Klein

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 02:38:42 +0000

It’s past time Quark supported OpenType. Good decision, but like migration to OS X native, somewhat behind the curve, to say the least. And it gives them the opportunity to further customer good will by casting off Passport as a sales model…after all, when Adobe offers that sort of thing with no extra cost, it makes Quark look kind of greedy to demand customers pay them to get it.

What I’m really waiting for is some kind of peek at the interface. Sure, it’s just the skin of the application, but I think it will be telling. If I correctly recall, one murmur that got through some time last year would be that Quark would be more “InDesign-like”, and I can’t help but read that on look-and-feel terms.

Since the XPress interface design has (with the exception of appearance changes subject to evolving OS design) not changed in..what, a decade?…I think the time is ripe for some sort of shift. I say if we find XPress beginning to look a little like InDesign, we’ll know, regardless of what Quark says, thaat they see themselves as playing catch up, and it will be point to Adobe in this battle.