Since when has Quark been so free and open with information, except to the knighted few? Just one more indication that they are gussying themselves up to be bought out/taken over/merged into/etc.

anyone using Qxp for web pages...

Has any used Qxp 6.5 at all???

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Since when has Quark been so free and open with information, except to the knighted few? Just one more indication that they are gussying themselves up to be bought out/taken over/merged into/etc.

I was burned on QXP 6.0. Re-registration is a bear if you upgrade your OS. Was treated pretty nasty on the hotline. After 10 years with Quark I vowed to not return. Besides, who is going to be buy software right now when it will all have to be reconfigured for the Intel machines. Judging from the reports native software is going to be faster than Rosetta. Most will save their money until the bugs are worked out. QXP 7 may well be the next QXP 5.

I have been a die hard xpress user. I didn't want to switch because I would have to learn all new shortcuts. I can fly in Quark. But last month I had to do a couple of projects in InD. WOW!!! I am not in the process of switch over to InD completely. I will keep updating QXP (maybe) because we have clients turn in Quark files every once in awhile. Over the past 3 years, more and more ads have been coming in as .pdfs instead of raw collect for ouputs.

InD still doesn't export a proper .pdf file. Still need to distill the .ps file.

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InD still doesn't export a proper .pdf file. Still need to distill the .ps file.

They HAVE to include transparency support. Out of many, many advantages the current release of InDesign has over the current release of Quark, transparency support is arguably the biggest.

And all the reviews of Quark 7 compare it to InDesign CS, not CS2. No one on Quark's side will put it up against CS2. Hmm. I wonder why that is...

Anyway, QuarkVSInDesign.com has a whole section devoted to Quark 7's features and such:

http://quarkvsindesign.com/news/archives/category/general/quark-7/

Quark is a very stable companyt and is NOT up for sale, nor are we doomed. This is the greatest time in the world to be working for this company. We have an amazing product coming out soon and our market share is 80% and holding. We aren't leaving this arena anytime soon. Cheers to the doubters.

Have you? Don't doubt until you try. It rocks and I get lots of amazed attendees wherever I speak for Quark and show the product. It is great. Any yes... a LOT of our base has upgraded to 6.5 and are testing 7 for us - go Quark!

QuarkXPress still has 80% of the user base. With the new pricing and educational program in place - that number is staying solid.

I've been using Quark 6.5 for several months, and it's been fairly stable for me. I will likely switch to InDesign sometime in the near future. I have been dabbling with CS, but I can't just stop publishing magazines for a couple of months while I re-learn a layout program. I'll probably make the jump for good when I have to jump through the re-registration hoops.



To the other Guest, re: WE are very stable:
Perhaps you DO have an amazing product coming out soon. It's just a shame you couldn't follow that up with amazing, or even adequate, customer service. Every time I've called, I've been "helped" by someone who is as friendly as a backhand across the face.

The only reason IND shows the numbers they do have is because of how they bundled IND with everything else they sold. More than half do not use IND even when it came on the machine they bought or if they bought the suite. IND still does not work great in a high volume catalog/publication enviroment

hope this includes the 'Screen Redraw XT' that has stumped their programmers for so long

i'm a Ind switcher! at first i didn't like Ind but after a few projects, i was using Idn all time. i find it easier, freindly and more flexable, better over all. i know you could open quark files in Ind, you might have to relink but thats all... you should give it a nother try. you might want to use ind and have your preference set for quark.

good luck

You sau 80% uses quark. But for what? I've worked at several companies and most of them only have (an older version of) quark installed because sometimes a few old quark files have to be edited for some reason, or customers send them to us (and sometimes just to ask us to re-create them in indesign!). When creating new files however, almost everyone I know uses Indesign CS2 (which absolutely ROCKS by the way). Its a bit like owning a playstation2 or a gamecube, but keeping an old computer with windows 95 in your basement just for the sake of playing Commander Keen.
My point is: you can boast all you want about the "great times" , blablabla, but there is a BIG difference in developing an " amazing product", or just waiting for adobe to invent something and copying and/or slighly tweaking it years later. Go Indesign!