

PageMaker's been around about as long as Quark has.
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The only advantages to Quark 6 over Quark 5 are that it runs natively in OS X and has FREE full-resolution preview capabilities by way of a free plug-in.Īh, but you forget that InDesign used to be Adobe PageMaker, essentially, which was purchased from a company named Aldus in the early 90s (It was originally Aldus PageMaker, and the first iteration of Adobe PageMaker was essentially a re-branded Aldus product).

I still feel Quark has the most control over any imagesetter, but that's just my preference. Is it different? MUCH different, if your abilities with those programs go beyond drawing boxes, importing pictures and typesetting. Has it surpassed Quark in any way? I don't think so. I will say that InDesign is a good piece of work - a worthy contender to Quark. Quark's technical support has gone downhill, but I've been using it since version 2 and have never had to make a call to support. The preference for InDesign or Quark just depends. so if you need Quark 4 file compatibility, you'd be better off sticking with Quark 5, since Quark 6 doesn't do it. Quark 6 can only save to Quark 6 and Quark 5 files. Keep in mind, though, that Quark has a funky "save-down" scheme. I can use both fluently, but just prefer Quark. I use Quark daily and much prefer it over InDesign. I really cant think of any reason or feature that I wold use quark over InDesign for, I can think of many reasons to use InDesign over Quark. Personally, I am InDesign all the way, if I never have to touch quark again, I am not losing any sleep over it. But ID 3 will not save down to ID 2 either, at least adobe will answer the phone when you call. Can be a nightmare if you run into issues. Quark 6 will oopen a quark 4 files but will not save back to quark 4, so if you dont have quark 5 your stuck with version 6. InDesign will convert quark 4 files really good, just have to watch out for the color palette issues and will have to adjust formatting a little. I work for a very large publisher and quark doesnt give us anything in terms of support while Adobe answers whatever we need. Quarks tech support sucks, once they have your money they dont anything to do with you.
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Quark itself, is relying on legacy and assuming people will just upgrade because they have an older version of a file and dont want to convert it.
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Exporting layers from InDesign directly to a Layered PDF is amazing. So upgrade to Quark 6 but be prepared to buy newer versions of your 3rd party extensions as well.

Quark 6 still relies on third party extensions to achieve what InDesign can do natively. Copy and pasting complicated vector paths from AI directly to InDD while keeping editable paths is just one nice feature. The whole integration with photoshop and illustrator and even golive is seamless. Many of the same features but using different ways and more economical ways to get there. Honestly if your fluent in Quark, Indesign will probably take about 4 hours to get up to par on. I agree with Potter, I work in Indesign CS and Quark 6 daily at my job doing Techincal Production work. quark has little to none of those items on the list where InDesign has leading edge controls. Test out their PSD importing options, exporting to PDF, Typography control, Opentype compatibility, transparancy and colour managing, and you decide which one you would prefer. I dare you to compare the two, InDesign and Quark do a 5 page document using placeholder text and stock images. I say, go with InDesign CS, infact, for the same price you can get QuarkXPress, you can get the whole Creative Suite from Adobe which includes Acrobat Pro, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and VersionCue.īut other then hearing what people say here, go to a fellow designers who has Quark and ask if you could tet it out. On top of the very expensive price, you don't have service, I have heard a few posts about how when they try to call quarks hotline, nobody answers. The shortcuts have changed in some of the most basic commands (such as "Save as" is NOT Command-shift-s, that command does "Add a faux shadow to the text") There have been documented bugs within Quark that not only bloat the files it creates but also corrupts them.
