Re: Quark or Indesign

"MB" <mbnilspam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Mike Powell <nospamthankyou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "Bell" <graphics@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:bD3zf.12978$xk1.231687
> > @news20.bellglobal.com:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > What is the difference between QuarkXPress & Indesign?
> > > Is it people switching from Quark from Indesign?
> > > Is Indesign has more advance features?
> > > Which one is the better for Career(Job) point of view?
> > > Which one is more stable? Which one is more reliable?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Currently, Indesign has the edge, with support for native Photoshop and
> > Illustrator files, live transparency, better screen previews and a whole
> > lot of other benefits.
> >
> > Quark isn't giving up without a fight, the Beta of Quark 7.0 shws that
they
> > are at least trying to address some of these shortfalls.
> >
> > How Quark 7 will stand up in a head to head against Indesign is yet to
be
> > seen, but it seems they may well have missed the boat already with many
> > designers having jumped to Indesign with the release of Creative Suite 1
> >
> >
> That may be so but how you see the programs depends on what you are
> trying to do. I can only speak for InDesign 2.0.2.
>
> I think the concensus is that InDesign has the edge for graphics, but I
> still prefer Quark for mainly text. There are a lot of niggles with
> InDesign which make life hard.
> There's no kerning table edit in Indie. It has Optical Kerning, over
> which you have no control, and it's just not the same thing at all.
>
> In Indesign, if you import text from, say, Word, as soon as you apply a
> paragraph style to any imported pagebreak the pagebreak disappears. You
> can't search for a pagebreak either, or put one in via Replace, so you
> can't use a workaround. This is a great nuisance. Also, any exported rtf
> file will be missing its manual pagebreaks.
>
> InDesign doesn't keep backup files like Quark does.
>
> In InDesign you can delete all styles whether they are in use or not.
> Quark tells you if you try to delete a style which is in use.
>
> Also you can't use a discretionary hyphen in InDesign without having
> automatic hyphenation switched on., and paragraph styles don't have an
> attached character style, which works well in Quark.
>
> I forget the other things that annoy me about InDesign but I'm always
> shouting at it. It's possible some of these things have been fixed in
> later versions.
>
> Quark has annoying things as well, such as allowing you to use italics
> and bold when you don't actually have the fonts, and it doesn't use
> opentype fonts yet. Also if you want to use a lot of languages you have
> to buy Passport. I think Quark's faults have been well documented. What
> always surprises me is the lack of comment about major flaws in
> InDesign. (I would call deleting pagebreaks a major flaw.)
>
> I had gone over almost entirely to InDesign because of Opentype fonts,
> but I had to use Quark again recently for old files and I was reminded
> how much I preferred it. It's more comfortable somehow. I'm hoping that
> Quark 7 will allow me to switch back for good. There's not a lot of
> support for that position on this newsgroup.
>
> But who wants a world entirely dominated by Adobe?
>
> Maire Black
>
ID 3 and 4 are VERY different animals than 2.x. Give it another look.
Not sure what you mean by "deleting page breaks".
Quark is probably more comfortable because shortcuts and such are well
programmed into your brain. You can always load the Quark shortcuts into ID.
You may actually work faster, be more comfortable, and have less problems
switching between Q and ID.



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