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Quark has milked its dominance in DTP for too long. Adobe tends to get its products polished by version 3, and its InDesign 2 product has received very positive reviews over QXP 5.

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The fact that QXP isn't supported natively in OS X is a nail in Quark's complacency coffin. I'm not a big fan of QXP due to its history of annoying and serious bugs that caused all manner of stability and reliability problems.

I do wish them success, but unfortunately they either have a lot of legacy issues or they really think that other companies won't be a problem while they take their sweet time to port. OS X's printing isn't perfect, but the fundamental PS support is there and works well enough, so that's a poor excuse. Ask Lotus (1-2-3) about the consequences of complacency in the marketplace. Microsoft laughs all the way to the bank. If only they were so eager! Even with outrageous pricing, bad tech support, late upgrades, and buggy software, Quark is still preferred by a landslide majority of service bureaus, and is the only thing they teach in graphic design school.

The last major release of quark.com was actually quite recent. It is not OS X compatible, but it does attempt to include web authoring capabilities, putting it into direct competition with Dreamweaver - a program that is more popular with web designers, easier to learn, more powerful, several hundred dollars cheaper, classic-mode compatible with OS X, and on the fast track to native support.

While Quark was working on their latest little gem, Apple ripped down their entire operating system architecture and started from scratch to build an operating system built on a different kernel, but able to work with with the same kind of interface, worked the bugs out to the point that it is now more stable than its predecessor, and able to run a native version of something as complex as Photoshop. And Quark accuses Apple of being inadequate. I know who I'd rather believe. I wonder if Quark is really so clueless, or if their PHBs have settled into a de-facto retirement, and are just using their momentum to ride the gravy train until they run out of track. It mostly depends on how large the market for a product is. Adobe for example has ported photoshop but hasn't and most likely will never port framemaker. Framemaker has so much legacy code in it, it is almost impossible to fundamentally change it.

The recently announced 7.0 version for instance still has no multi level undo even though this is one of the most often requested features. Implementing multilevel undo would require changes to large parts of the code and is therefore not feasible. I suspect that Quark express has a similarly sized group of professional users and a similar amount of legacy code. Porting probably would cost more than it would ever pay back. I don't have any inside knowledge here, but FrameMaker runs on MacOS 9, Windows and a passel of Unices. THere was even a port to Linux for a while, but I think it didn't sell. I don't see why a port of FrameMaker would be any more difficult than, say, Photoshop (also with plenty of legacy code).

I seem to remember they're trying to expand use of FrameMaker, and I doubt they'd be able to do that without a MacOS X port in the pipeline. If it were a dying product, I'd say it would never get ported, but apparently it isn't. I'd love to give it a try, but sadly it's just too expensive for casual use. In the publishing world, there's Quark, and then there's a bunch of bit players.

They're the 800 pound gorilla. PageMaker used to be good competition, but after Adobe ate up Aldus, it just nosedived. And while I will agree that there are issues with high-end printing solutions (pretty much every week I head complaints about how this or that super expensive printer doesn't have OS X drivers) Quark is basically a thug. Their not releasing a Carbonized version of Quark along with their very public comments (in this article and many others.I sometimes wonder if they have a PR guy out there full time spreading the word that they're not supporting OS X) are a direct, intentionally public slap in the face for Apple. They want things done their way, and they're doing their best to exert every bit of control they can over Apple, because Quark is a very important application for Apple.

There are many people who wouldn't be using a Mac save for Quark. I've never liked Quark. They've been thugs as long as I've been forced to deal with them. Unfortunately I'm going to have to suck it up and deal with their thuggery, because suggesting InDesign to my clients would at best garner me a laugh, at worst they'd call someone else when they're having problems. NewsFactor reports that Quark's QuarkXPress is not quite up-to-snuff under Mac OS X.' Sources in the article claim Mac OS X still isn't quite there in regard to printing, or predictability. That is, I suppose, you don't mind crashes as long as you know when they are going to happen and what is going to cause them.

I'm having trouble parsing that last sentence. The only interpretation I can think of that (roughly) fits with the grammer and my understanding of the world is that Quark users will be disapointed under Mac OS X, since they are used to having their systems crash and knowing that Quark caused it, and now when their system crashes they won't know for sure if Quark caused it. If that's the case, I can fix the problem easily.

Just print out this post and patse the following line somewhere where you can refer to it often. I think the point is that crashes in MacOS 9 are more predictable and (thus) controllable than MacOS X. For instance, if you're using an application, and it's almost out of memory, you should save your work straight away and quit. If you do that every time an app is close to the end of its memory band, you won't get many crashes at all. I'm sure there are plenty of printing operations that are simply too cheap to buy the expensive newer Macs capable of running MacOS X.

I wouldn't be surprised if Quark's real position is that MacOS X software simply isn't as lean and mean as Quark, and making Quark MacOS X compatible would sacrifice that image. I have never used Quark, seeing that I just about never print anyway, but that's my suspicion based on what I've read. You sound like someone who's used Quark too much.

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What do you think of InDesign? The reviews make me think it's a lot nicer to work with.

Maybe your press house should consider supporting it. They've got a history of being slow with this sort of thing. Anyone else remember the exquisite agonies of their software installation system?

Not too long ago, you needed both a floppy drive and a CD to install XPress 3.31(?) on your box. The CD contained all the app data, the floppy held the serialization info. (And there was yet another floppy for registration. You'd mail that disk directly to Quark after you were done.) Annoying, but you could live with it.

But when Apple decided to go no-floppy across their entire product line - ouch! Suddenly no one could install Quark on those beyoootiful new G3s for which they'd shelled out so much money. (Or at least not without buying some USB external floppy drives, which were hard-to-find early on.) And for months afterwards, Quark did next to nothing about this very obvious problem. IIRC, they eventually settled it so you could send them a proof-of-purchase, your original program disks and a vial of blood harvested from a virgin under the full moon's light and get a CD-only version of the installer. But back at the time, it was a HUGE issue for a lot of bureaus and design shops.

You know it wouldn't surprise me if the only reason Apple put an ADB port on the Blue and White G3, the first candy colored tower, was for Xpress users. Quark probably initially refused to make a USB dongle. They did this even though Apple owns the patents on ADB and at one time you had to ask Apple nicely to make ADB devices. The licensing agreement that Quark has with Apple for ADB probably made it impossible for Apple to force Quark to make a USB dongle initially at least.

For that matter the latency timer for the ADB bus on the Blue and Whites is very high and makes devices such as keyboards, mice, or drawing tablets useless. Apple probably would have been happiest if they could have left ADB off those machines. Also anyone know how many years it took for Quark to make at least some parts of Xpress run as PowerPC native code? Quark has always been the bain of designers and Prepress. The only reason Designers use it is because prepress house asked them to. The only reason prepress uses it is because years back it was the only app that could output color sep film right from the app and a few other things and Pagemaker sucked for prepress.

Quark has always raped its customers with costly tech support, expensive upgrades and really bad bug fixes that caused more problems then they fixed. If fact the company I work at just 12 months ago officaily switched to Xpress 4 because of all the problems. I hope InDesign gets a following. I've looked at Xpress 5 but it's more of a 4.3 release in my opinion. Quark was in the right place at the right time and nothing else. Aldus dropped the ball with Pagemaker and fell on hard times when it had the opportunity to kill Quark.

Any problems Quark has with Mac OS X is all Quark and bad programming on their part. The only app I have that crashes my OS 9 mac.

The only reason I would want it on OS X is so I don't have to reboot all the time. I think bane is a little strong. XPress owns what used to be called DTP ( ie: back when non-desktop publishing existed) because it offered a level of precision missing from its then competitor PageMaker. The success of the package is pretty much accidental. It was originally written as a word processor for the (hopelessly unsuccessful) Apple ///.

XPress on Mac is now the status quo in print production; freelancers, art directors, designers - pretty much anyone who is serious - uses it and the QPS workflow software. XPress also has a mature plug-in market which is another barrier to competitors.

On the other hand, Quark's screw-up in moving to OSX is the best opportunity for a competitor since the mid-nineties when XPress seemed stuck at version 3.1. Xpress is the status quo, but that doesn't make it good. It's an ok app, I have used it everyday for about 8 years.

My point is that the apps success was accidental and the company is horrible. The app itself really hasn't grown at all since version 3.3. It became the status quo for 1 reason: When Xpress and Pagemaker started the market share battle. Xpress had DCS EPS files and could output color separated film right from the app and had rudamentary trapping. Pagemaker required Preprint or Trapwise to separate a file. There were a few other things Xpress did, but the real one was the Output. Prepress and Printing Companies loved it and 'forced' it on to the designers.

Most early designers prefered Pagemaker, it was the Prepress people that got them to switch to Xpress. If Adobe can offer Indesign with the features that Xpress requies Xtension for they could start to capture market, because the Xtension have to be rewritten for 5 and OS X.

The success of the package is pretty much accidental. It was originally written as a word processor for the (hopelessly unsuccessful) Apple ///. Quark wrote MacWrite Pro, which was a word processor, for the first Macintosh. XPress was never a word processor and didn't run on an Apple ///. XPress came out much later, after Aldus Pagemaker.

Ironically, since Quark knows how to write word processors, you would think they could make importing MS Word files work properly! Plus it took them until version 5 to get table support in XPress. If there is any company that is worse in terms of upgrades, stability problems, costs and user support than Quark (including, believe it or not Microsoft) I'ld like to hear it.

The other posters here are dead on: The company has raped and abused it's monopoly in Prepress for years and doesn't care the slightest about customer opinion. However, Prepress houses and Printers have not helped at all because if there was ever a conservative, stuckinthemud group of software users it's those people in Prepress. On the one hand they work in an industry that is already entrenched and has a set work flow and extremely tight deadlines to meet (worked there myself) and is thus unwilling to take the risks of trying out new processes that could entail stoppages in the process.

On the other hand, this (and I've witnessed this myself) is a group that gets upset because InDesign has different keyboard shortcuts to XPress and then decides that InDesign is 'too different' and switches back to XPress. On top of this most editorial bureaus are stuck with that Pig of a software editorial system: CopyDesk, even though it is typical Quark slow, crashware. Adobe has an answer solution and hopefully this will stimulate the market somewhat. I have my own beef with Quark as regards the mFactory mTropolis Multimedia Tool that Quark bought up in an attempt to get into that market when their own useless POS, XPresscoupled Immedia didn't get anywhere. They provided no marketing, no support and no development of the tool which then consequently and unsurprisingly didn't expand it's user base. The brilliance of mTropolis can not be overstated in that, even now, 5 years after Quark killed it, there is an.expanding. user group on yahoo groups.

After Quark killed the tool, the user base tried various methods to get the source or at least a development licence from Quark to no avail. Apart from the one million dollar price tag that Quark put on the dead code (which the user group could obviously not afford) they stipulated that 'all negative comments pertaining to Quark' must cease before they would think about it because there was such an outcry. I do.not. wish that company well.

If you don't work in the industry (apologies to those that do), try to understand.we don't use desktop equipment, we use ultra-high-end hardware solutions from Heidelberg, AGFA, ABDick, Kodak and the like that don't change at the rate of OS architecture. Most of us have highly involved workflows that work, and we aren't going to change for the sake of changing, it has to be better - not different. OSX, while I think it's awesome and can't wait to implement it here in our business, is no where near ready for my industry. You can get files to print to your Epson?

But there is no way it's going to interface with the Harlequin RIP software sitting on the NT box (don't bother, it wasn't my decision!) that is connected to the ABDick digital plate maker. And that output device prints 99% of the plates we put on the press. As for the Quark vs. Adobe(PM, InD) argument, that could be changing. Adobe burned some bridges by stating there was not going to be future updates on Pagemaker and then shoveling that POS InDesign 1.0 to us. But InDesign 2.0 is very cool! I like it alot and I'm using it more.

Quark Killer? I don't think so. But it might split my project load with Quark.

I use hammers to pound nails, and screwdrivers to turn screws. I'll use the software that works best for the job at hand.and none of them do everything perfectly, so save religion for church! - I'm sorry, but your opininion seems to be wrong. Funny, I've been running OS X in a Scitex Brisque Environment for test from months. Got no problems even with classic apps.

I miss some OS 9 only scitex tools for searching our massive Ripro Servers and Presstouch editing software doesn't work, but everything else works like a champ. I just ran a test job from InDesign 2 in OS X all ok from Mac to Brisque to Kodak Approval(Proof) to Dolev(Film) to Lotem(Plate). I can do that from Xpress to but it runs in Classic. What is really great is I can manage my Ripro Server and Brisques (all unix) right from the terminal in OS X by telenet. What's all that stuff good for?

Almost all printed matter that I come across that is actually worth reading is black-and-white, has a simple layout, simple fonts, and simple typesetting. You never read magazines? Or even newspapers? How about that box of cookies? The package your latest computer game came in?

All that stuff was done using this type of gear, and probably done in Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, et al. Even that simple stuff. Yeah, I work in the industry too. Getting back to the Quark discussion, they have always had contempt for anyone but them selves. The CEO once said all their customers were crooks! I use the program everyday. I think it's a great program, BUT it's still riddled with bugs, and the fact that they didn't do an OS X version is just crazy.

Anything they say is just an excuse to cover their ass. At home I run OS X 99% of the time, only booting into 9.2.2 to run Cubase VST. I use InDesign 2.0 now, and it's a great program. I don't miss Quark at all. At work we are still using 9.1 and Quark. But that will change at some point. No, generally, I don't.

News is now conveniently available on-line, and all the other stuff is just packaging. Fancy packaging generally suggests a lack of good content to me, and publishers would be better off keeping things simple as far as I'm concerned. Guess you don't read books then either huh? That's pretty dull, if you ask me.

Not everything is news, and you usually can't get all the content online. My point was that everything you see around you that is printed probably made it's way past one of these programs (and was most likely created on a Mac too)!

I think most people would object if everything looked like it came from a typewriter. Fancy packaging is all part of the presentation, just like eating at a nice restaurant vs. Good design is art. There is more to life than the bare essentials. Oh, I see.you make it a point to buy flour and sugar in single-color packages and then you bake your own cookies.

You live a print-free life. You're a hermit. You somehow manage to completely avoid the 4th largest contributor to the US GNP. For what it's worth, the phrase that can strike fear in any prepress dept's heart is: '.it's just a simple one-color job.' (Lately our black-only cheap-and-cheezy stuff has been going to a Canon high-speed toner on paper printer that probably cost more than any of us will make before retirement.).

I was a devoted QuarkXPress user from version 1; it was so much better (mostly more stable and better at printing) than PageMaker (then from Aldus), even given early limitations such as the inability to copy and past boxes. But three things happened to make me abandon the application.

(1) Poor customer service. I got tired of paying US$25 every time I wanted a simple question answered. And though I was honest enough to buy my own copy for personal use, I felt I was always treated with suspicion. While studying in the UK, I upgraded to System 7.5 and found that my copy of QuarkXPress would no longer work. I called support and they threatened to revoke my license since I was not 'authorized' to run on the British system.

This struck me as draconian. (2) Exhorbitant upgrade pricing. I could 'cross-grade' to InDesign for less than the cost of the upgrade to the latest version of QuarkXPress. Quark is the only company I ever saw that considered a PowerPC version of their software an upgrade in and of itself; so one had to buy a 'double upgrade' to PPC and the latest version. As I recall this was over US$600. (3) OS X support. For anyone paying attention, as soon as the details of Carbon became common knowledge the troubles Quark would have porting to OS X should have been obvious.

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QuarkXPress has always used non-standard controls; even version 4 (not sure about 5) used a faked/hacked System 7 scroll bar appearance even on OS 8/9. It seemed to me that there were so many aspects of the program like this that 'carbonizing' it would actually require significant rewriting, unlike most apps that used standard toolbox routines. Unfortunately it looks like the hesitation to go to InDesign is going to be a major drag on moving Apple's installed base in one of its most important markets (pre-press) to OS X. But I'm sure it will happen. QuarkXPress has always used non-standard controls; even version 4 (not sure about 5) used a faked/hacked System 7 scroll bar appearance even on OS 8/9. It seemed to me that there were so many aspects of the program like this that 'carbonizing' it would actually require significant rewriting, unlike most apps that used standard toolbox routines.

This is why they don't have an OS X version yet, and they are blaming it on Apple! Quark has basically been a hack of a program all these years. We haven't upgraded to 5 yet here at work, but I did use the public beta version, and yes, they finally updated Quark to look like System 8!

I bet the widgets use some hard coded WDEFs instead of the Mac Toolbox though! They say the next version will run on OS X. In another three years maybe? There's something to be said for not interrupting the production environment unnecessarily. If you have to put out a weekly or daily publication, then you really don't want anything that's going to cause a serious delay. You have to test everything to make sure it works, and you have to give your production people enough time to train and become proficient before you force them to switch over. Otherwise, you might not have a paper come the next week.

More and more Presses are accepting PDF files these days, so it's not as big of an issue if they don't carry InDesign. More troublesome is if you receive ads from clients that are in Quark, and you have to maintain both programs (and, consequently, both environments), just to be able to accept the ads. Also, there's the consideration of the various plugins (or XTensions, if you are speaking specifically of Quark), as well as applescripts and the like. You lose whatever you had for customized workflow when you switch, so there has to be time to get everything working in a reasonably similar manner before you switch. If you have a database driven workflow, breaking that is seriously going to suck.

On the other hand, chances are that Quark will only upgrade 5 to OS X, not 4, so it will break all of the plugins anyways. Finally, there's the budget. In my case, I'm not going to be able to afford all of the upgrades until next year, chances are.

I'm not in a big rush to go to OS X, but it's definitely in the plans. I want to stop the computer from crashing. If an app drops out here and there, no big deal, but if I can reduce the number of restarts per day to close to 0, then I will consider that a huge win. The question is, which will be the better program when it's time to switch? Even given my time frame, I bet it'll be InDesign. If you're a programmer reading about QuarkXPress, you might be interested in learning more about writing InDesign Plug-ins. On May 7th, Adobe will run two sessions focused on creating plug-ins for Adobe InDesign.

(One session will be in Japanese, the other will be in English.) Both sessions will provide a one and one-half hour overview on how to get started, and will approach the subject from a programmers point of view. (We'll keep the marketing to an absolute minimum!) Here are some details you'll want to know:. The sessions run concurrently from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm on Tuesday, May 7th. One session will be presented in Japanese, the other session in English.

There is no cost to attend this session. The sessions will be held at Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, located at 345 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95110. This is two blocks from the San Jose convention center. Watch for signs in the Adobe entrance at Park Ave and Almaden Blvd.

You can find a map to Adobe Headquarters at. Although the session is open, there is a limit to the number of people that we can admit. Admission will be open until we fill the capacity of the room. We assume that you have a basic knowledge of Macintosh Programming.

Any questions can be directed to. In Japan - InDesign-J DevTech Engineer, Ken Sadahiro (sadahiro@adobe.com) - Everywhere else - Mark Niemann-Ross, Developer evangelist for InDesign. Mnr@adobe.com, phone: 503/860-2183 LINKS: For more information about creating plug-ins for Adobe products, go to:. For Japan -. Everywhere else - For more information about Adobe InDesign, go to:. For Japan -. For everywhere else - http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/.