Comments on: QuarkXPress 7: Where's the Beef? http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a2/quark/2005/quarkxpress-7-release-date/ The Authority for News & Opinion on the War of the Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Gary http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a2/quark/2005/quarkxpress-7-release-date/#comment-1325 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:03:11 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a2/quark/2005/quarkxpress-7-release-date/#comment-1325 Do you work for Adobe? I ve tried indesign and cannot see what all the discussion is about....Quark beats it handsdown. Who wants to to do layout with a programs that reminds me of PS? Do you work for Adobe? I ve tried indesign and cannot see what all the discussion is about….Quark beats it handsdown. Who wants to to do layout with a programs that reminds me of PS?

]]> by: Imatt http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a2/quark/2005/quarkxpress-7-release-date/#comment-1217 Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:43:15 +0000 http://quarkvsindesign.com/articles/a2/quark/2005/quarkxpress-7-release-date/#comment-1217 QuarkXpress 7 will have to be bloody good! It will have to be better thatn inDesign CS never mind CS2. And heres much of Quarks problem. Xpress started out as a highly efficient DTP app, taking over from where Pagemaker left off. Whilst Pagemaker could never catch up, Quark rested on there laurels and got rich and complacent. Then Quark added silly features to Xpress that should not be in a DTP app such as packaging design (QuarkWrapture, admittadly a riduculosly expensive plug in / Xtension) and HTML page layout. Now with InDesign breathing down their necks, the temptatiopn is to add even more features. QuarkVista for example is promoted by Quark as "Photoshop Lite" as it can work on Photoshop files including individual layers. Where Quark is really feeling gthe pinch is from Adobe's Creative Suite range. Why buy Xpress when you can get the Creative Suite for a little Xtra cash??? I cannot see mnt if ANY Indesign users going back to Xpress even if Xpress is better than InDesignCS2. Not only have they made a time, effort, training and finacial commitmrnt to InDesign, the next version of InDesign, CS3 / V5 will be be almost certainly better than Xpress 7 anyway. These are testing times for Quark. If only they were'nt a single product company.... QuarkXpress 7 will have to be bloody good! It will have to be better thatn inDesign CS never mind CS2. And heres much of Quarks problem. Xpress started out as a highly efficient DTP app, taking over from where Pagemaker left off. Whilst Pagemaker could never catch up, Quark rested on there laurels and got rich and complacent. Then Quark added silly features to Xpress that should not be in a DTP app such as packaging design (QuarkWrapture, admittadly a riduculosly expensive plug in / Xtension) and HTML page layout. Now with InDesign breathing down their necks, the temptatiopn is to add even more features. QuarkVista for example is promoted by Quark as “Photoshop Lite” as it can work on Photoshop files including individual layers.

Where Quark is really feeling gthe pinch is from Adobe’s Creative Suite range. Why buy Xpress when you can get the Creative Suite for a little Xtra cash???

I cannot see mnt if ANY Indesign users going back to Xpress even if Xpress is better than InDesignCS2. Not only have they made a time, effort, training and finacial commitmrnt to InDesign, the next version of InDesign, CS3 / V5 will be be almost certainly better than Xpress 7 anyway.

These are testing times for Quark. If only they were’nt a single product company….

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