Pariah S. Burke

Highlights from Craig Cline’s coverage of the recent high-altitude Quark Summit, held at 9,700 ft above sea level for large Quark customers…

Mr. QuarkXPress turned Mr. InDesign, David Blatner is an interesting fellow. The QuarkVSInDesign.com exclusive interview with David Blatner…

Over on the Design Weblog I answered some mail asking for advice for dealing with printers and service bureaus who don’t want you to switch to InDesign…

If you already owned a complete set of manual screwdrivers, would you buy an electric with just the basic flat and Philips heads?

InEffects 1…

Variable Data Publishing (VDP) proof-of-concept puts a satellite photo of all 40,000 subscribers’ neighborhood on their individual copies of Reason magazine…

Would I like to see competition remain in the layout application market? Yes, whole-heartedly. Quark, Inc. only got as good as it did because it began as an upstart competitor to PageMaker. But I also believe in reaping what you sow. Quark, Inc. has stepped on its users and ignored them for so long because users had no other choice but QuarkXpress, that Quark, Inc. has become a real bad guy in the industry. I want to see Quark, Inc. finally realize the consequences of its actions, just like everyone else. It would be good for the market if Quark, Inc. did so, then learned from its mistakes and managed to stay alive to build a better application.

I don’t advocate the demise of Quark, Inc., I predict it. There’s a major difference there.

In a comment on my post “I Shout ‘Quark Sucks!’ Loudest” Alan mentioned this survey. Apparently Quark, Inc…

Not only am I the top two hits on Google for “Quark Sucks”, but my opinions on the Quark-InDesign war are being quoted and referenced all over the place…

Macworld UK—Quark chief’s nuts yield poor return

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Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi’s family nut holdings dropped in value yesterday after sales slipped…

Fred Ebrahimi, CEO of Quark:

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We’ve just announced QuarkXPress 7 will ship on November 1st, and XPress 8 will ship on December 20th…

If you go to Google.com and type in “quark sucks” (with or without the quotes), my site—specifically some op/ed dialogues I started—is the top two listings…

Macworld Magazine, cover date September 2003, from letters to the editor:

Congratulations to Pamela Pfiffner for delivering the most amazing scoop I’ve ever seen in Macworld: Quark is committed to its customers and giving them what they want (”The World According to Quark,” June 2003)…

I’m writing this from the 2003 HOW Design Conference in New Orleans and I see Adobe. There’s Apple. Pantone’s around. A dozen paper vendors are here…

I’m still laughing at Quark 6. I’ve seen it. I’ve played with it…

Translation of Selected Portions of Last Week’s “QuarkXPress 6 Feature Overview” Announcement from PR-Speak to English

I wonder how long after initial release it will take for them to release the 6.1 patch that makes it work

I originally started this as a response to Blind Energy’s comment on my earlier post Quark: Adobe’s Best Friend…

Never before have I witnessed a company so creatively advertising the superiority of a product or company as I have Quark, Inc.’s efforts toward promoting InDesign and Adobe…