Quark
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- mydo
seriously. does anyone use this?
- vaxorcist0
used to be good... I loved Quark 3.2
- i_monk0
A few weeks ago a freelance client sent me files he got from Manulife. Quark 8 format.
- vaxorcist0
but sometime a few years ago, QuarkXPress turned into QuarkDistress ..... totally crashmatic and we said hello to Indesign and never looked back
- 4040
not here. indesign all the way!
- mydo0
i remember boffins having to teach me all these short cuts that weren't documented / available from drop downs / or anywhere else but boffins heads. for example the short cut to change the size of an image.
- DeSiard0
Quirk? nah
I used to do all of my layouts in that program, but now i don't think i even have a copy of it that will run on my machine now. I never liked it, but i did get to where i was comfortable working with it.
- PIZZA0
once worked with a guy who designed his website in quark because that was all he could use.
He also bought a G5 Powermac but still used his ancient battered Powerbook because he couldn't run Acrobat Reader on the Powermac... of course he was trying to run the OS9 version of Reader because he was a fucking moron- this client is an hourly billing consultant's wet dreamvaxorcist
- duckofrubber0
No.™
- akrok0
for god sake, no.
- scrap_paper0
I still run into certain people that use Quark. I'm ALWAYS surprised and when I ask them why they go on about how superior a product it is.
I just shake my read and walk away.
- 10g00
- pillhead0
No, No, NO!
- imakethepictures0
Me either. Although I would like it if Adobe had a little more competition on multiple fronts. We'd benefit from that, methinks.
- imakethepictures0
Me either. Although I would like it if Adobe had a little more competition on multiple fronts. We'd benefit from that, methinks.
- Holy crap, I only clicked once. Stupid double-posts.imakethepictures
- Josev0
I just downloaded a trial version of Quark so that I could open files that were sent to me by a client. It still has some of the weird interface features that it's always had. It does feel faster than InDesign, through. But I'm not giving up InDesign.
- It is much faster than Indesign. For this reason, I would consider it when typesetting books.duckofrubber
- nthkl0
Production pre-press houses use it all the time. Newspapers, Magazines, old school places that are not design oriented won't change or upgrade unless there's a long term financial benefit behind it. Imagine walking into the Newspaper creative department in Wichita, imagine what app icons you'll see in the workstation start menu (Macs would be too expensive). Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 7, Quark, Acrobat Reader, MS Office 98.
- nthkl0
And too, there are a lot of production artists that are in their early 50's that have been doing this since before most of us were born. Next time you pass a magazine rack, i bet you could pick which ones were made using quark.