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(More customer reviews)I have just installed Quark 6 after waiting years for a worthwhile upgrade. It feels to me like a basic rewrite of version 4.11 with no major attention to intergrating with Photoshop psd format, industrial strength Acrobat PDF making tools and no compatibility with Illustrator .ai drawing format.
I wonder if the CEO of Quark has the faintest idea what the CORE business of designers really is or what they expect from Quark. Designers use Dreamweaver or Golive to make websites and wanted Quark 6 as a rock stable design LAYOUT tool with cool features - no more. It was the Mac community that built the Quark company yet they have quickly abandoned their client in the search for new fields in the PC sea.
I got a clean install and registration via the web, followed by multiple crashes and conflicts with fonts in OSX 10.2.6 when I did basic things like try to open 4.11 files, try to Export as PDF and try to use Suitcase X1 to autoactivate fonts I have been using for years. The program really lacks any tolerance to font duplicates under OSX.
Quark 6.1 must soon intergrate with Adobe photoshop, Acrobat distiller and Illustrator or it will flick,spin,crash and burn into the forgotton wasteland. In that wasteland you will find every software company that abandoned its CORE business and clients.
I don't care where it's made, but I really DO care about stability, features and more stability.
Also I would like to question the integrity of MAC and PC websites who have given Quark v6 a 4/5 rating. These journalists are easily distracted by press-release-smoke-screens of new web features designers don't depend on. As a registered user of Quark for 10 years, I give the new version 2 or 3/5 for its lack of new typesetting features, poor dictionary, token-only layers, 1200mm size limit, general anti-Adobe compatibility and font instability.
I will also be crossgrading to In-design to protect my future.
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Item #: F72219. QuarkXPress is powerful layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine writing, editing, and typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output. QuarkXPress is widely used by magazines, newspapers, advertising agencies, typesetters, printers, corporate publishers, design firms, catalog houses, book publishers, and form designers. It is also used by businesses with publishing requirements.QuarkXPress 6 software includes a wealth of new design and productivity-enhancing features that let you produce professional layouts - for print and the Web - more efficiently than ever.Because PDF creation technology has been incorporated into QuarkXPress 6, you can output PDF files directly from QuarkXPress without buying third-party software.Layout spaces simplify the management of complex projects by providing the ability to share specifications such as style sheets, colors, hyphenation settings, and lists among layouts. You can also include multiple content types and layouts with varying page sizes in a single file. Synchronizing content allows you to share text between layouts.Full-resolution preview displays images at the file's full resolution so that you can scale or magnify images with minimal pixelation and position page elements more precisely. You must register your copy of QuarkXPress before you can access this feature.Create a more compelling Web experience through better design with new and enhanced tools, including two-position rollovers, cascading menus, font family specification for cascading style sheets, form controls improvements, and more.Improvements to output features, including As Is Color Space and DeviceN, underscores Quark's continued commitment to supporting open standards in the workflow and delivering the highest quality output. Product Description: QuarkXPress ( v. 6.5 ) - complete packageCategory: Creativity applicationSubcategory: Creativity - desktop publishingVersion:
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