I’m having to use Quark for a book project I inherited, and ick, ew, it’s so…blech!
Okay, that’s too harsh. And I realize that a lot of it has to do with my having used InDesign for so long. But I really, really, really don’t like Quark. It just wigged out on me after I double-clicked on a text box, and all the text that used to be in the box is now showing up in a cascading fountain to the left of the pasteboard. But the text is still in the box, just invisible. I reopened the file, but still the same problem. I quit the program and restarted it, then tried to open the file again. Crashed. Tried again. Crashed. Tried again. Crashed. Luckily I saved an earlier version of the file, but still…
I hate Quark.
[tags]Quark, InDesign[/tags]
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Ah, you have discovered a universal truth of typesetting! InDesign rules and QuarkXPress drools. ;) Although our art director prefers Quark because he’s more used to it and it has certain features that he likes better than InDesign’s. What version of Quark did you use? I had the impression that their later versions (6 and up) were more stable, but I could be wrong. What I mainly don’t like about it is its messy markup language (XPress tags). Their customer service also isn’t the greatest. You may be interested in this website: http://www.quarkvsindesign.com. ;)
Yeah, I’ve known for a while that I didn’t like Quark — I had to use it for a design class a couple years ago — but this was a case where I had to use it, since files came to us in Quark and we couldn’t change anything, because it was a reprint. ~sigh~ I used the very latest Quark (7.2), bought the day before from the bookstore. You’d think it would be stable. But no. ~bigger sigh~
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