According to MacWorld in the US, QuarkXpress 7.0 sucks. Just like Mission Impossible 3, it hasn’t been worth the wait.
Unfortunately, XPress 7 does not represent a significant leap forward.
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Quark to InDesign
According to Adam Pratt, another one of those Adobe technical superheros, Markzware has released a plugin called Q2ID– to assist your move from legacy QuarkXpress to InDesign.
Quark tried Again (version 23402)
Australian Print21 magazine interview regarding Quark charm offensive to get closer to customers. A week or so later, Quark vs InDesign – the feedback
InDesign CS vs. QuarkXpress 6.0
David Blatner on InDesign CS vs. QuarkXpress 6.0.: InDesign is the real page-layout program, and QuarkXPress 6 feels like a relic
InDesign CS from a QuarkXpress perspective
InDesign CS Review by a Quark User
I’ve never been a fan of Powerpoint. I create my presentations in InDesign. The new Story Editor feature in InDesign CS is a god-send for organising throughts prior to layout.
Quark to InDesign
Now in the good ole USofA
From Murdoch Mags ditches Quark: “For advertisers this means the pages can be kept open for a longer period and this gives our sales staff more time to sell advertising space in our magazines.”
Quark
In San Jose, California. Sorting out the DNS. Learning about delegation, NIC handles and the good sense of updating your contact records.
Its interesting to read both the Adobe User to User Forums and Quark User Forums and what each are saying about Xpress vs. InDesign. Maybe we are in the midst of a major change in the industry. Just like there was moving to desktop typesetting in the late 1980s (to PageMaker). And desktop colour in the early 1990s (to Xpress). Maybe its not about one vs. the other. With PDF for final form, high quality delivery there is no need to be application pedants. Yeah, that’s more like it.
Quark to InDesign
David Blattner (Quark Guru) Compares QuarkXpress 5.0 to InDesign 2.0 I think there are some arguable points in his article, and he didn’t cover my favourite “spot colour” topic! However, it is a fairly even article.
Off to the US. I wonder if my DNS troubles will be solved by then?
Quark, Trapping, Prepress
After prompting from a customer, I had to do some more research into Overprinting, Trapping, Quark and Acrobat 5.0. The results are now published here.
Funnily enough, InDesign makes this a whole lot easier. Composite Postscript output contains trapping and overprint, which is retained in the PDF.
Another resource for Prepress Professionals is Prepress Panic.