I would say that 95% of the time when starting a new project I launch InDesign bizarrely, sometimes I find myself launching Quark purely because I have used it for a while and I fear it is getting lonely.īut I think a bigger problem than Quark vs InDesign is the lack of ability to reliably backsave in either application. Quark’s colour management is confusingly implemented. importing PSDs seems to work only some of the time and can cause big crashes. I also like knocking up the odd quick and dirty web page from Quark.īut there are still those ‘Quarkisms’ that pop up and annoy eg. I’ve also rather taken to Quark’s new interface. InDesign sometimes is a bit sluggish moving the page around and moving from page to page. Spanky’ (The Hand Tool), this feels important. It seems faster when navigating around a document and as someone that uses ‘Mr. The Q2ID plug-in was considered, but I thought that there may be problems with it not converting everything properly, and one would need a copy of Quark anyway so that you have a point of reference if something looked wacky with the converted file. In the end, I had no choice other than to buy both when work started coming my way that was supplied in both formats. I had a very difficult choice as whether I should by CS4 OR Quark. For the last 10 years I had been using my various employers’ copies of Quark and InDesign. I learn something new every single time a post goes up on the blog.Ībout 6 months ago I left my job and had to set up my own workstation that – SHOCK HORROR – I had to pay for myself out of my own pocket. And this is what David and Anne-Marie and the other bloggers here do, they keep you current. You have to stay up-to-date and you have to learn something everyday. I’ve been on this blog post since I started using InDesign back in 2005/2006 and it’s been the most valuable source I could imagine. The one thing I would say is if you’re using software find the experts (like I did :) ) and stay current with whatever you’re using. I just know that I would be gutted to not use InDesign in future work. If I got a new job tomorrow they may be using Quark, or ventura, or Xara or Scribus or whatever, and I think I’d just go into that job and do what was needed using those apps.Īs I said earlier I know the core concepts of page layout and typography, using styles and things like that. I’ve just learned and used what I’ve needed to because the job needed it. I don’t rate one page layout over the other. I basically taught myself InDesign (ok I had a lot of help from the very guys and gals here at InDesign Secrets and from Michael Murphy at ) I begged to get CS3 update and they bought it in.Ĭoming from a Quark background into Ventura then to InDesign I had core concepts already built into my working day. It was around the time that I really needed running heads to be automated and paragraph numbering to be automated that InDesign CS3 came out. It had lots of features that InDesign didn’t have in CS2. In using Ventura I found it really unstable, but other than that it was a good typesetting program. It was in 2005 I left the job to pursue other ventures and I wound up in job that needed technical books converted from Ventura to InDesign. I learned Quark from 2000 – 2005 as it was used both in work and in college (where I went on block-release from work). That’s not my point at all! I just think we can all learn from exploring the alternatives even if we’re all still going to be using InDesign. I definitely don’t want this discussion to devolve into a QX versus ID argument. I know that QuarkXPress, for example, still has plenty of features that InDesign lacks. I’m not being judgemental about any of these.
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