Comments on: QuarkXPress 8 to target Adobe’s Creative Suite this August http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:32:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: SonOfA http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8397 SonOfA Thu, 15 May 2008 20:40:18 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8397 @John Muir Wow, that is pretty clear. I knew Quark was on the decline but that's a bit bit scary. Eeeesh! @John Muir

Wow, that is pretty clear. I knew Quark was on the decline but that’s a bit bit scary. Eeeesh!

]]> By: John Muir http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8359 John Muir Wed, 14 May 2008 13:52:51 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8359 http://www.google.com/trends?q=QuarkXpress%2C+InDesign Pretty clear trend there. http://www.google.com/trends?q=QuarkXpress%2C+InDesign

Pretty clear trend there.

]]> By: Planeten Paultje http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8350 Planeten Paultje Wed, 14 May 2008 06:50:25 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8350 We used to use Quark at my school on some 80 machines. It was priced (educational) at E250 per machine and we still had to buy the Adobe stuff of course. You got a bunch of dongles, which were prone to getting stolen, so we built those into the machines themselves. Then we could get network dongles which would be attached to a dongle server. But we could only get serial numbers in batches of 10, so when we moved to a NetBoot environment we had 8 executables in the image, marked to be used with clusters of 10 clients. In the end we got a good working crack without the need for a dongle, and we used that for years. Until the matured version of Adobe Indesign came along and we dropped Quark in the blink of an eye. Still, I liked Quark better than Indesign (and all its precursors. Quark was always simpler and cleaner in the execution of its concepts, Indesign always had fuzzyness. I hope Quark can pull itself out of its own pit of lazyness and contempt for its customers. Competition is a good thing here. We used to use Quark at my school on some 80 machines. It was priced (educational) at E250 per machine and we still had to buy the Adobe stuff of course. You got a bunch of dongles, which were prone to getting stolen, so we built those into the machines themselves. Then we could get network dongles which would be attached to a dongle server. But we could only get serial numbers in batches of 10, so when we moved to a NetBoot environment we had 8 executables in the image, marked to be used with clusters of 10 clients. In the end we got a good working crack without the need for a dongle, and we used that for years. Until the matured version of Adobe Indesign came along and we dropped Quark in the blink of an eye.

Still, I liked Quark better than Indesign (and all its precursors. Quark was always simpler and cleaner in the execution of its concepts, Indesign always had fuzzyness. I hope Quark can pull itself out of its own pit of lazyness and contempt for its customers. Competition is a good thing here.

]]> By: weave http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8343 weave Wed, 14 May 2008 03:06:35 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8343 I have a bit of a related question and a blast from the past for some of you. In the very old days I used MacPaint and MacDraw. One did bitmaps, other did vectors. Then SuperPaint came out, which was great. I eventually ended up using Corel Draw -- and then several years ago they stopped putting out versions for the Mac. Now I have Corel Draw X3 running in Parallels. Adobe CS software is insanely expensive. Is there a decent Mac equivalent of Corel Draw available? Sounds like Quark isn't it either. I have a bit of a related question and a blast from the past for some of you. In the very old days I used MacPaint and MacDraw. One did bitmaps, other did vectors. Then SuperPaint came out, which was great. I eventually ended up using Corel Draw — and then several years ago they stopped putting out versions for the Mac. Now I have Corel Draw X3 running in Parallels.

Adobe CS software is insanely expensive. Is there a decent Mac equivalent of Corel Draw available? Sounds like Quark isn’t it either.

]]> By: JohnWatkins http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8337 JohnWatkins Tue, 13 May 2008 21:58:36 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8337 Yup, I thought the same thing. InDesign has become the choice of all the designers I know(unless they are really old school or stubborn) except for internal shops where the workflow became totally dependent on some Quark Xtension or something. Quark is still a pretty big deal inside some press houses. Yup, I thought the same thing.
InDesign has become the choice of all the designers I know(unless they are really old school or stubborn) except for internal shops where the workflow became totally dependent on some Quark Xtension or something. Quark is still a pretty big deal inside some press houses.

]]> By: beanie http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8334 beanie Tue, 13 May 2008 20:38:11 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/13/quarkxpress-8-to-target-adobes-creative-suite-this-august/#comment-8334 Prince wrote: "Quark, inc....aimed at cementing its lead in the market for professional desktop publishing against Adobe’s rival InDesign product" Quark looks more like it is dying than being the leader. Website only gets around 17,000 visits a day. Google searches for the keyword QuarkXpress has been steadily declining for years. There are probably more books and jobs for InDesign than QuarkXpress also. Quark, a single product company from the 1990's, that is still around. So how come Microsoft or Adobe has not bought it out yet since it lools like it is dying? Prince wrote:
“Quark, inc….aimed at cementing its lead in the market for professional desktop publishing against Adobe’s rival InDesign product”

Quark looks more like it is dying than being the leader. Website only gets around 17,000 visits a day. Google searches for the keyword QuarkXpress has been steadily declining for years. There are probably more books and jobs for InDesign than QuarkXpress also.

Quark, a single product company from the 1990’s, that is still around. So how come Microsoft or Adobe has not bought it out yet since it lools like it is dying?

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