quark vs. indesign
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- studderine
so i was talking to a designer (20 year pro) and he says that quark is much better than indesign. truth?
- mirrorball0
ive been using quark for 7 years now and i wish Indesign came out 8 years ago!
Indesign wins hands down, i'd ditch Quark tomorrow if it wern't for old clients wanting changes to stationery I have worked up in Quark!
- studderine0
he aslo said that quark is used by more publications. its not that i dont think the guy know his stuff (print master), but i always thought indesign was more popular.
- studderine0
more popular with publications..i mean.
- jaylarson0
i had an interview with the largest, privately owned printer in north america and the operations manager, here in mpls, wished more people used indesign. it did sound like that quark was used less and less. i don't have numbers, but personally, quark is the bane of my existence. indeisgn is fantastic!
- mrdobolina0
Older guys know Quark. They know all of the bullshit workarounds. They tend to like the bullshit workarounds and covet them like insider information.
inDesign is just modern and simpler to do what you want to do.
A person could teach themself basic inDesign skills in a few days if they were used to Adobe products. Try to learn Quark in that time frame.
All graphics are created using Adobe products anyway. Why make something a tif or eps when it can be psd or ai and utilize transparency and layers and everything you were working with before you imported it into quark?
Just makes workflow simpler to use inDesign, IMO.
- studderine0
jay larson. we talked about quad. remember? good company eh?
- mirrorball0
Plus most peeps use PDF's to send out jobs nowadays, create a good PDF preset for transparency work the once and thats you. need never worry about sending a dodgy job to a printer again. Indesign makes everything like scaling, rotating pics, fonts etc a piece of pish! I use it with an apple mighty mouse and its great, Indesign gets things done simple as that, be uprading to CS3 version soon too can't wait!
- BonSeff0
¡ ¡ pagemaker por vida ! !
- mrdobolina0
I have had so many Quark nightmares that it is crazy.
I just wish that more third-party companies would start integrating dynamic content into inDesign. Right now all of them have version 7 of software to work with Quark and maybe maybe version 1 that works horribly with inDesign.
- mrdobolina0
bonseff is livin la vida quarka
- oldelpaso0
i've never really felt the need to move on from MS Publisher
- 4040
In my opinion.
quark = bad
indesign = goodI work on a magazine all day long and I dont ever think that I would love it the way I do if I was using quark.
- 4040
In my opinion.
quark = bad
indesign = goodI work on a magazine all day long and I dont ever think that I would love it the way I do if I was using quark.
- jaylarson0
studderine-
yeah. it was only an informative interview, but man! it really sounds like a great place to work. and yeah, that is the company i was talking about.
- jaylarson0
^ talking about in regards to indesign vs quark. :P
- PonyBoy0
i've never really felt the need to move on from MS Publisher
oldelpaso
(May 23 07, 18:03)
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hahaha... hear hear!!but srsly... Quark went the way of 'ass' when inDesign hopped in on the scene.
studd... you should laugh at the old guy and show him the disrespect he deserves for talking such gibberish... sounds like another 'old dog' not willing to learn 'the new'...
... can't stand being around 'those guys'... no matter how 'good' their design is...
... if they're not willing to learn and move on... they've peaked.
... respect his design... just not his stupidity. ;)
- johndiggity0
indesign is superior to quark imo, but just as most file formats are created in adobe programs (.ai, .psd etc) most prepress software is built around quark. this can cause a lot of problems on press with regards to indesign's native file support, issues that quark will not have.
bottom line is the publishing industry is notoriously slow to change, no doubt there are still some publications that only accept quark 4.6 files. indesign is the future in this respect.
- cram0
i used quark for 8 years and switched to indesign 3 years ago...
i liked quark's simplicity but indesign is the way to go.
- Dancer0
studderine, what are his reasons?
ID handles files and fonts so much better. In my freelance exprience I have used ID more and more but know Quark better. The only problem I have with ID is how stable it is across a server (but it does have a good file back up)
Quark for one is waaaayyy too pricey and that is a good enough reason to start with.
Some printers I know do not even expect Quark files anymore
- milo0
jeeze... do people still use Quark?
can you ask him if it has multiple undos yet?
+ can you ask him, if producing print ready pdf's is still akin to witchcraft?