Re: Quark Xpress upgrade to 7.0 from 4.11

In message, Peggy <pjcoquet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, yes. And I'm not gonna vote in favor of Exacto knives and hot wax! I
enjoy learning new software, or new functions in old software. And I did NOT
enjoy (in those bad old days) seeing that an ad had slud cockeyed, or a line
of text had peeled off.

We're in complete agreement on that, only we called them scalpels!
FWIW, I still use ours but the waxer has long since departed for the great paste-up studio in the sky. ;-)

But I did say I was an early adopter, no?
So we have you to thank for all those bug fix releases of our favourite applications? ;-P

I'm constantly amused at the people who get impatient at the Sony Picture
Station because it takes SO LONG - sometimes 5 minutes! - for their photos
to print.

It's amusing, isn't it? For some reason I can still vividly remember a 6pp brochure I designed in 1994 being proofed on an Apple laser (I think).
If memory serves, the job took something like an hour and a half to Rip and print from Quirk 3.0! Now we chuck out SRA3 spreads from a 60pp 4 col magazine on our not so state-of-the-art Xerox phaser in under ten minutes.

Yes, there is a learning curve. But that keeps our brains agile, right?
I suppose you're right, but I can't help feeling that the time I'm spending learning new software is time I am not spending designing, or better yet, pottering around my garden.

My gripe was really with the perpetual need to re-learn existing tools, not learning on its own account, which is always a pleasure. I am yet to be convinced that there is anything a skilled and talented designer can produce in Indesign CS3 that I can't produce in Quirk 4.11, Illy 8.0 and Photoshop 6.0. That was my complaint. Or, to put it another way, are the ads, brochures and magazines you see today so much better than they were ten years ago? I'd argue that in many areas they are much **worse**.

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Derek Tree
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