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Thanks for checking up on the arbitrary and antiquated size limitation for me, TheTSArt.
Join me now, won't you, as I channel all my pent-up rage and negative energy towards Quark HQ? Together, perhaps our nasty thoughts can hasten the downfall of XPress and clear the way for a new InDesign competitor; one that might actually be, well... COMPETITIVE.
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charlieartist 
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 05:30 AM
Well, ID has been the same in this respect--a user can save down one version.
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 07:14 AM
I would love to see a more "modular" Quark that could run in a version 5 "mode". It has a lot of excess baggage: HTML options, projects, and all this new glop that I'd love to turn off. I switched to InDesign years ago, but I have a few legacy projects that require Quark. Several printers that I interviewed told me most of their clients are still using Quark, mostly version 6. So I tried 6.5 for a while, but it had so many issues for me (awful screen redraw, error-prone PDF creation, font incompatibility, inability to print to my Xante 3G) that I've gone back to using 5.0 in Classic mode.
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 12:10 PM
CAN'T WE JUST GET ALONG! QX and ID users will forever go at it. Investing in an application is like buying shoes extremely individual. If you're delivering the mail, you're not going to do it wearing heeled thongs! But I don't, so I do. I've used Quark practically since it's inception and I just adore it! (Go ahead, make fun.) It's what works best for what I do. I've been on a Mac since 1986 and I've NEVER used EVERY feature of ANY program I have EVER owned. And a lot of us never will. Bottom line: Quark does what I want it to do! I just hope that enough of us hang in with Quark to keep it coming. Without it, there is no competition for ID and with that, no incentive to improve. And that would suck for all of us!
So if the shoe fits...
So if the shoe fits...
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Posted 26 May 2006 - 12:58 PM
What's the incentive for PhotoShop to keep improving?
. . . Still, it improves with every release.
The incentive for Adobe to improve its applications is that users will upgrade. Unfortunately, Quark never had an incentive to improve its product until InDesign came along.
. . . Still, it improves with every release.
The incentive for Adobe to improve its applications is that users will upgrade. Unfortunately, Quark never had an incentive to improve its product until InDesign came along.
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Posted 27 May 2006 - 03:08 PM
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Compatible only with power PCs? I think that's a touch misleading unless quark simply does not function on intel macs.
Compatible only with power PCs? I think that's a touch misleading unless quark simply does not function on intel macs.
Not to be a blind loyalist or booster (I am neither), but Quark does run on Intel Macs, via Rosetta. If Quark didn't run on Intel Macs, neither would InDesign, since neither is Universal Binary at this point. Ironically, Quark plans to release the universal binary as an update (free) this summer. Adobe won't until 2007 according to releases...
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Posted 20 September 2006 - 01:31 PM
Upgrading to Quark 7 disables the Quark 6 serial number. I wouldn't care except that 7 opens 6 documents all screwed up and they basicly have to be rebuilt. If 6 is already installed, it will keep working. However if you need to reinstall 6, you're screwed. Quark tech support will generously reactivate your 6 serial number (while deactivating the 7 number) for a period of time you can specify. I thanked the Quark tech supervisor and told him all our new projects would be built in InDesign.
