![]() Essentially they were forcing everyone to buy the upgrade for every computer they owned. When Quark finally did come out with a new version that was OS X compatible three years later (6.0), they purposely put a block on it, so you couldn't downsave to 4.0. Nobody (except me) ever bought version 5.0, because it came out after OS X, but wasn't OS X compatible. ![]() has also behaved like the arrogant monopoly that is was. It crashes regularly, displays things on the screen that aren't really there, and many other problems too numerous to even get into. When Quark finally did come up with a new version three years later, if was so full of bugs, that many people still didn't upgrade. Or to run a completely separate system in the background, a process that led to a whole host of other problems. Quark took nearly three years to come up with a release that was compatible with OS X, forcing users to either put off upgrading their systems, and therefore upgrading any other software they owned. Every other software company whose clients worked heavily on the Mac, had their software updated within six months to a year. Of course anybody who used Quark with any regularity has become so paranoid that they back up files, make duplicates, copy the files to another machine about every ten minutes, just because they know that eventually Quark is going to kill the file.įive or so years ago, Apple moved its operating system to OS X, a system that required software developers to completely rewrite their software. What other program regularly corrupts files beyond repair, rendering a 50 page magazine file useless. Quark Xpress, for at least the last five years has become the suckiest software program on earth, and Quark the most arrogant company. Now as to why, I have had to take this drastic step: InDesign, from all my experience so far does everything better, but also does everything different. It's a huge undertaking, because not only do you have to rebuild the entire job template from scratch, but you have to essentially learn a new language at the same time. Can't live with it, but can't live without it.Īnyway Friday, after whining (along with most other Quark users) for nearly five years and wasting half the day trying to uncover the reason for it's daily flip-out, I started to switch my largest job over to InDesign, the competing program by Adobe. how to manipulate it to make it do what you want. know all its quirks (a favorite Quark nickname). ![]() Do other people whose jobs center around the computer feel that way about the software program they use most? That you know it so well. I have been essentially married to it since I started using version 1.0 back in about 1987. For the uninitiated, it is the software program that has been the standard bearer for producing newspapers, magazines etc., since the publishing world went desktop nearly 20 years ago. Not sure how many people outside the publishing business even know what Quark XPress is. This is going to be a bit of inside baseball for most general readers.
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