PAGE 3: LEAKED! Creative Suite 3, InDesign CS3, QuarkXPress 7 Features
Online survey leaks surprising product line up of Creative Suite 3 and potential new features of InDesign CS3 and QuarkXPress 7…
BY Pariah S. Burke
Editor, Quark VS InDesign.com
More Leaked?
Two additional pages, entitled “Page Layout Perfected” and “Innovation Unleashed” do not specifically identify either QuarkXPress or InDesign, but bear a strong association to XPress 7 and InDesign CS3, respectively, by reiterating features from the lists that do identify their subjects. These two pages add the following hypothetical characteristics:
From “Page Layout Perfected”:
- CREATIVITY
Greater than ever integration of graphic creation tools, allowing users to apply filters, gradient blends, 3D effects and more to any element on a page, even text.
LAYOUT AND PRODUCTIVITY
Send stories for round-trip editing edit in MS Word.
Layout Styles allow page geometry to be dynamically applied to objects on the page.
Sections of pages can be divided and distributed via an enhanced workflow module able to route files to other users, with live updates and the ability to revert to an earlier version at any time.
Share text, XML and graphic updates via the workflow module, which can receive data from MS Word, RSS and other common data feeds.
PREDICTABLE RESULTS
Support for PDF/A
MULTI-CHANNEL PUBLISHING
Available as part of a bundled suite with other key design and layout tools
From “Innovation Unleased”:
- CREATIVITY
Creativity tools include precise transparency controls, drop shadows, alpha channel support, as well as support for Photoshop PSD layer import and opacity control.
Built-in image engine, reduces time spent on image manipulation: all major graphics formats are supported and alpha channels can be softened.
Streamlined interface allows most common tasks to be controlled from a single palette.
Cross-platform OpenType typography and Unicode international character support.
LAYOUT AND PRODUCTIVITY
Users can create layout blocks that can be edited in one place, while allowing for real time updates in multiple pages or files - even those shared with multiple users for simultaneous collaboration.
Users can flexibly synchronize images, text, layout and styles across multiple layouts and media types.
PREDICTABLE RESULTS
Users can to have better control of their final output via enhanced PDF and PDF/X support and through customizable pre-flighting.
Built-in color management can be easily shared and standardized, allowing both color novices and experts to better soft proof files on screen. Includes advanced color management features for color experts.
Designers can easily use production and design settings provided by their printers or share these setting across a workgroup. These settings can be updated in real-time.
Robust graphics engine provides improved anti-aliasing and more precise image previews.
MULTI-CHANNEL PUBLISHING
Web Layout environment allows direct HTML and image export, including Flash import and improved graphic output. Users can combine print with Web layouts in a single project, allowing them to change elements once, and update them both in the Web and print pages.
Creative Suite 3 Lineup?
In addition to presenting in confident language what the survey writers presumably believe are the intended features of InDesign CS3 and QuarkXPress 7, the survey also divulges a surprising Creative Suite 3 lineup—including as yet unfinalized Macromedia acquisitions.
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If there is a Premium Edition of the CS3 Suite that includes Dreamweaver, that’s for me. As a user of both, and as an author of GoLive tutorials and a Dreamweaver course, I prefer Dreamweaver. I have had numerous crashes with GoLive and find Dreeamweaver more intuitive. I was hoping that Dreaweaver would get the PDF capabilities of GoLive..maybe that will happen anyway. At any rate this was a very intruguing article and it will be very interesting to see what comes to fruition!
14:16 PT
I asked the company “Absolute Data Research & Analytics” where they got my email address from . They responded saying they recieved it from Adobe.
14:46 PT
Very interesting, Brian.
What’s even more interesting is that another person whom I trust told me that the e-mail address at which he received the survey invitation is used solely for correspondence with Quark, that he has never given it to anyone else.
I really wish Quark would return my calls or e-mails about this. Adobe says they aren’t behind it, but Quark has yet to comment.
If you look at Absolut Data’s clients, neither Quark nor Adobe is listed… But another industry player is.
If you take the survey, it is very much about QuarkXPress and various add-on modules for XPress. Of course, no one will own up to paying for the survey.
14:59 PT
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I think everyone should probably know that QuarkXpress 7 will NOT have any flash import functionality. I would be surprised if it even manages flash output in version 7.
11:38 PT
Should they really handle flash anyhow, though? GoLive is junk, but Dreamweaver is a lesser evil in the end — neither application is made for high end web development. They bundle it with BBEdit capabilities, we may talk further…
11:30 PT
Should it handle Flash…? Yes and no. I can see a real need for exporting FlashPaper from XPress—FlashPaper is becoming another form of output—but not for Flash animations et al for Web use.
GoLive and DreamWeaver… I’ve played with both, but have never been able to get into any WYSIWYG HTML editor. I began designing and deploying professional Websites back in late ‘94 when WYSIWYGs were useless. Now, ten years later, I just can’t break the habit of writing code by hand. I comp and layout site templates in Illustrator, slice and export, then immediately rewrite the XHTML and CSS code in TopStyle, HomeSite, or BBEdit.
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I forgot about flashpaper, I can see the use for web abilities in there.
I’d agree with you on the coding portion — my experience with dreamweaver is it takes me just as much time to fix what it outputs as it would to code it right in the first place.
13:44 PT
It seems to me that the whole coding process has been done in a very haphazard and lazy fashion. I can only assume that it was coded by a hack who seems to have jumped on the whole flash bandwagon. Or maybe someone who really isn’t very focused and passionate about the industry we work in.
04:54 PT
Maybe he should spend more time at his desk learning the art of coding instead of treating the office as a youth club.
09:13 PT
Dean and Lee:
Admittedly, I’m still working on my first cup of coffee, but… What—or who—are you talking about?
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Auf QuarkvsIndesign sind die jeweils zukünftigen Features der beiden Layoutprogramme Quark XPress 7.0 und Adobe Indesign CS3 aufgelistet bzw. gegenübergestellt. Es ist allerdings fraglich inwieweit alle aufgelisteten Fakten stimmen. Eine Prognose g…
07:28 PT
please send me quark 7
01:59 PT
“indika”:
Well, no can do there. But Quark has a public beta program currently underway that allows you to download a practially fully functional beta to do whatever you want to it. It’s a free download, but expires at the end of March.
You can find it here:
quark.com/products/x...ress/seven/beta.html
Good luck!
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I Personally think this was the survey from Quark behalf as my friends name was there in the quark list. I think it is quite not fair on behalf of Quark to share his email address with a third party vendor. Also the way the survey was made about the features of theQuarkexp 7 shows that info may most proabably would have com from quark.
12:09 PT
I know someone who says that Creative Suite 3 is coming out in 1 week, My source is extremely reliable…
20:35 PT
Hi, Kevin.
I’m afraid that, in this case, your source is in error.
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