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Mon, 27 Oct 2008 Quark links XPress and InDesign

Quark embraces InDesign for publishing workgroup system

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Quark Publishing System 8 now supports both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign in a single workflow system, Quark announced this morning.

The company has extended the capabilities of Quark Publishing System 8 (QPS 8) to include support for both QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign.

QPS 8 users can use QuarkXPress with QuarkCopyDesk and Adobe InDesign with Adobe InCopy at the component level within a single workflow system.

"We surveyed magazine and newspaper publishers, ad agencies, and marketing groups and asked them what their most significant needs are for collaborative publishing today," said Linda Chase, general manager for Quark Publishing System.

"The majority indicated they need to support both XPress and InDesign in their environments and would welcome a workflow system that does not dictate which page-layout and design application they have to use.

QPS users who work with InDesign and InCopy can work simultaneously in InDesign layouts and InCopy articles, create revisions, and push updates back and forth between InDesign and InCopy.

InDesign and InCopy users can work in the same workflow as users of QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk. They are also able to check layouts and articles in directly from InDesign layouts.

QPS XTensions software for Adobe InDesign is available for QPS 7.5 and QPS 8 on both Mac and Windows platforms.

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Neil said on Mon, 27 Oct 2008

What's Quark?

Tom said on Mon, 27 Oct 2008

What's Indesign?

Jim said on Mon, 27 Oct 2008

I use Quark and InDesign and still prefer Quark. It's just far easier and intuitive with less clicks.

DJ said on Mon, 27 Oct 2008

I agree with Jim – for me QX is quicker and simpler to use. But this is a good workflow advance regardless.

Dragonfly said on Mon, 27 Oct 2008

Adobe have started introducing their own bugs into Flash CS3 and those bugs still exist in CS4. Basically Adobe are not the quality software developers they once were . They're all about buying up the competition, and turning new versions around as fast as possible regardless of quality.

Quark rested on their laurels and took their eye off the ball for too long in the early part of the decade and allowed Adobe to steal a huge chunk of their user-base (idiots), which is a real shame.

Ben said on Tue, 28 Oct 2008

I bet all of you defending Quark have been running it since the beginning and can't handle the change to a better layout program.

KindredMac said on Tue, 28 Oct 2008

There might be an aire of truth to Ben's comment. I started out in Quark from the beginning, then tried InDesign 1.0 and went back to Quark 4. When InDesign 2.0 I gave it another shot, liked it much more but still went back to Quark again. Then when InDesign CS1 (3.0) came out I was tired of Quark's lack of faith in the Mac OS X environment and the cost of upgrades so I tried Adobe's newest offering and fell in love. The way that Adobe finally made InDesign part of the the other apps was a common sense deal maker. I haven't touched Quark since then and have not looked back.
Do I think InDesign is BETTER than Quark? Maybe not for certain things but InDesign fits my style of working much better than Quark ever did. With Quark I would end up banging my head on the desk more often than not.

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