Quark 6 vs In Design
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- Mel
So, who tried them out? compared them? which one do you prefer? anyone have a free copy of either? *big toothy smile*
- ********0
Who'll be the first to throw rocks?
- CyBrainX0
the only reason to throw rocks would be the possibility that NT could get in trouble. Other than that, don't make me sick. I suppose all the rock throwers have their $800 Quark on their computers?
To answer the question. I always take InDesign. Just a superior piece of software from a superior company.
- loop0
ditto.
indesign all the way.
- unknown0
what do they do that you couldn't do in illu or freehand?
a lot of shops are still fucking with quark
- sauerbraten0
well for one: you can't do multiple page layout in illustrator or have master templates (well maybe you can and i'm sticking my foot in my mouth) OK, so freehand CAN do those things, well i've been using it for page layout and it SUCKS.
PLEASE PLEASE EVERYONE!! use a program for what it's meant to do, like Illustration for Illustrator.. and umm... like draw stuff with Freehand.
oh, and i'd take InDesign in a NYC heartbeat over Quark.
- CyBrainX0
I wouldn't want to be stringing multiple pages with stories continuing on other pages without a page layout program. Illustrator, much as I love it, doesn't even have type styles yet.
I hate print anyway.
- 0711830
A lot of my profs rant about how Quark is still used by a large portion of the Printers while only a few use InDesign.
Is this true or are they pulling this out of their ass?
- unknown0
My guess is that most of the printers around here have at least one InDesign license - the reason for why I'ld hesitate before handing them an Indd-file is that they're much more used to handling the potential postscripts errors from Quark than dealing w/ Indy.
But I'm curious: Anybody here w/ any experience on getting a .Indd w/ a multilayered, semitransparent .PSD through a printers RIP?
- swollenelbow0
i just love my EPS's. yes i use quark for magazines and maybe a brochure...but is there a real need to make a poster or anything else in that area in anything other than illustrator?
outline my fonts, check my PMS's, rock the +300 attributes, bleed, crop...and i'll see ya tomorrow.
- unknown0
"i just love my EPS's" - hey, that sentence would make a nice t-shirt
- XC010
in Australia you can get the entire Adobe design collection.
Indesign 2
Photoshop 7
Illustrator 10
Acrobat 6 Professionalfor $1000 less than 1 Quark.
I use quark at work and its fine, but if i ever set up my own business I'll use Indesign, having never even seen it in action.
- Brigade0
I learned quark and used it till i had to do a design job in a short period of time on a foreign computer with InDesign installed. It took me about half an hour and i was into Indesign, cause its in some ways very similar to the the other adobe products. Creative desin can be easier fullfilled directly in the Program , an printing is no problem PDF is getting the new standard in Germany
- lyrek0
3yrs ago when I graduated, i was using the first release of indesign and i made my dot-bomb buy it.
When I preflighted, I told printers whom I was asking for quotes that the jobs would be built in indesign format (they didn't know they export to eps).
We can do it for X in quark, they'd say. And they'd call back a few weeks later and inquire about the job. "I went with a printer that cared enough to purchase inDesign" i'd say.
this happened a half dozen times. the odd thing was that for the most part, those same printers had indesign when i called for the next quotes...or if they didn't, they lied and scrambled to buy it.
must've converted a dozen, i think, before I let on that you could export to .eps. hee hee.
god bless adobe.
- leBeat0
i agree with Brigade, i’m using inDesign, too. PDF is perfect, you can’t forget your fonts anymore ...
:-))
- Blofeldt0
i've had one or two problems with printers and In Design but they're generally just lazy. I've had a few tell me that they reckon Quark will die out sooner rather than later
- Blofeldt0
i've also had problems with pdf's regarding overprinting and knockout
- ********0
InDesign is a very solid and powerful program. If you are used to work in Illustrator and photoshop, you'll feel right at home with InDesign. You can use native files too! But, it doesn't hurt to know quark because it is still the industry standard.