Existing users, 
and yes, i have tried quarkxpress 7.0.2 (i'm a mac tech). it's still slow. it's still buggy. i've already wasted my money on quarkxpress 7.0.2 and i'm warning my clients not to waste thiers.
switch to indesign...don't even consider quarkxpress until the company improves quarkxpress' speed and stability. given quark's consistent "market it even if it stinks" attitude, i don't see quarkxpress getting any better.
i support it if i have to - i advise against it when clients ask for advice.
don
QuarkXPress
Page layout and design for print and web.
Version: 8.12
quarkxpress 7.0.2 still slow and buggy
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: poolmouse Tuesday, October 10 2006 @ 02:11 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
quarkxpress 7.0.2 still slow and buggy - pdxmrmac
Well if InDesign is just a glorified PageMaker (huh?) and Quark is buggy, maybe you should go use Print Shop Deluxe! Oh wait, Print Shop looks 1% like InDesign, so that might be too much like PageMaker. How about using a quill and some parchment.So let me understand this, you would rather use a buggy, crappy program that has terrible support and whose newer releases tend to be worse than the last, rather than use a program that is very stable and has steller support. Whatever! My customers are 90+% InDesign now and the largest printer on the West Coast tells me that 70% of all jobs are InDesign. Finally, I only have 3 people who have upgraded to QXP 7, and the rest of the stragglers are on 6.5 and I have to deal with the pain of that version. I spend more time fixing QXP bugs (if I can) than I do on any other graphic program. Maybe I should start charging an annoyance fee.
Quark is dead and it is deserved. When you treat people like crap and make a program that has been resting on its laurels since beating PageMaker two decades ago, you are a confirmed loser. The market was just waiting for a Quark killer, and InDesign is the hero.
Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 06:37 AM PDT
Listen to Pool-mouse, he tells the truth - MacMuser
Pool-mouse is 100% correct. Don't waste your money on QXP6 or 7 because it is a buggy, prone-to-crash and slow piece of software that really needs a complete re-write. Only the stupid intransigence of the printing and publishing industry is keeping it alive.If only my clients would move to inDesign I would be able to do their work in half the time and half the price…err…maybe not the latter. inDesign CS2 is not without problems, CS1 is the more stable of the two, but it is light years ahead of QXP.
Tuesday, October 24 2006 @ 09:09 AM PDT
quarkxpress 7.0.2 still slow and buggy - defrogi1
Yeah, Quark is buggy and always has been. InDesign on the other hand is just glorified Pagemaker. Never liked it then, don't like it now!Reply to This
Tuesday, October 10 2006 @ 05:01 PM PDT