Comments on: Macworld UK Poll Reveals Who's Preferring What http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/news/2006/macworld-uk-poll-reveals-whos-preferring-what/ The Authority for News & Opinion on the War of the Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:23:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Bob Santoro http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/news/2006/macworld-uk-poll-reveals-whos-preferring-what/#comment-16773 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:02:43 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a1/news/2006/macworld-uk-poll-reveals-whos-preferring-what/#comment-16773 I am curious as to whether anyone has published a recent (2006) study as to the market penetration of Quark versus InDesign usage in the real world? I could not find such stats on your web site. After all these years, does InDesign only have a 35% market share of existing seats, for instance? Are they both about 50/50%? The reason I would like to know is; has the market swung enough in InDesign’s favor to make commercial printers pretty much give into it as a standard? As an InDesign switcher, we have had some rough resistance from commercial printers over the last few years. However, it seems to be getting better this last year for InDesign acceptance. Even for transparency issues. This is just a gut reaction though. I would like to see some hard numbers. Knowing, for instance, that InDesign has a 60% market share would help us understand that it now has become the standard. If this is so, industry journalists would have to then refer to InDesign as the industry standard. I am curious as to whether anyone has published a recent (2006) study as to the market penetration of Quark versus InDesign usage in the real world? I could not find such stats on your web site. After all these years, does InDesign only have a 35% market share of existing seats, for instance? Are they both about 50/50%?

The reason I would like to know is; has the market swung enough in InDesign’s favor to make commercial printers pretty much give into it as a standard? As an InDesign switcher, we have had some rough resistance from commercial printers over the last few years. However, it seems to be getting better this last year for InDesign acceptance. Even for transparency issues. This is just a gut reaction though. I would like to see some hard numbers.

Knowing, for instance, that InDesign has a 60% market share would help us understand that it now has become the standard. If this is so, industry journalists would have to then refer to InDesign as the industry standard.

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