It lacks full transparency gradients and doesn’t have adequate photo layering capabilities like opacities and layer modes. Xtentions really streamlined and automated a lot of repetitive design tasks like updating prices and phone numbers (xcatalog). Other programs had this too but quark was the first to do this. The second best feature of quark is the powerful xtentions that exist out there on the market. Just watching some tutorials online you can easily edit other people’s work fairly easily without much training. If you’re picking up someone else’s work, you can almost everything indesign can do quark can do too.Īfter Apple’s Pages application, it is the easiest and simplest major print design software out there that you can use fairly intuitively if you’ve used a computer graphics program before. If you’re just starting out, I’d suggest you look at indesign. I converted to indesign kicking and screaming because of how different the workflow was because I was so picky. Yes, there are days when I wish it had never happened but not to the point that I will actively go looking for something else as an alternative.Ĭomments: I’ve used quarkxpress for over ten years, longer than any other single piece of software. The newer Adobe integrations can be annoying and for my purposes not that helpful. And customer service always has been truly top notch, something that is increasingly rare these days. I've used it over the years professionally across all kinds of projects and niches and even personally to create materials for the kids' soccer teams etc. Since I first used this software in college (which was more than a while ago) although it has changed and evolved in my opinion it has never stopped being the best layout creation tool there is. At a client's encouragement - and because they owned the software - I did try Scribus but for me it just did not have the same feel or great function that Quark has so after a few hours experimentation I politley delined to keep using it and went back to what I know (and achived excatly what they were looking for anyway) That promotion will end June 30, too, at which point those customers will have to buy the software at full price.Comments: I've been using Quark for so long now that I find it hard to imagine using anything else. Quark also has been running a promotion that let users of Quark versions 3 to 7 upgrade to version 9. Newer versions of QuarkXPress have added the ability to create layouts for tablets, e-books, and other digital media, and Quark itself has expanded more broadly into a supplier of tools to automate the flow of information around large companies or governments. The software was a fixture in earlier days of desktop publishing for chores like designing magazines, but Adobe's InDesign swept across the market years ago. In retail channels, QuarkXPress costs about $890 for a full version and $370 for an upgrade. Unlike Adobe, the company will continue selling the software with perpetual licenses, meaning that people can continue to use a purchased version indefinitely. QuarkXPress 10 should ship in August, said Gavin Drake, Quark's vice president of marketing, in an interview. After Jonly QuarkXPress 8 users will be eligible to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 for a free upgrade to QuarkXPress 10," the company said. "Until Janyone who purchases or upgrades to QuarkXPress 9 from any previous version will receive version 10 for free.
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