Existing users, 
Adobe has become so convoluted that their bloated suite even includes it's own cumbersome application for help documents. Apparently Adobe figured that not even the Acrobat (or Reader) monstrosities were up to the task of handling their grandiose (not!) help system. The constantly swelling Adobe ego wouldn't dare miss yet another branding opportunity by relegating it's support literature to the OS X help system (a help system which will soon grow even more seamless and elegant with the inline spotlight search field included in Leopard). Instead it is important to Adobe that we all have to open yet another oversized application in order to complete the simplest of tweaks and tasks. (as noted elsewhere, stay tuned for future Adobe solutions including groundbreaking applications like Adobe® MouseClick CS4 which will take extensive advantage of their new RapidRedundancy Engine (patent pending)).
While I don't expect the ability to edit photos inside InDesign like it was Photoshop, or go pedal to the metal on a vector graphic like it was Illustrator, a solid feature set enabling the most fundamental of these types of tweaks would be absolutely terrific—Thank you Quark. Thank you.
ps - The non-spinning beachball of death performance is outstanding. Thank you Quark for not making it seem as if though I were undertaking desktop publishing from within RenderMan.
QuarkXPress
Page layout and design for print and web.
Version: 8.12
Thank you Quark. Thank you.
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: pginc Sunday, August 05 2007 @ 04:41 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
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Thank you Quark. Thank you. - nbolle
You are clearly not a designer who uses these programs day-to-day. I've used both programs since their inception and every time I am forced to use Quark now I feel like I'm using a program from the early 90's. It's amazing how these people refuse to improve the basic usability of this program.The following are several of many time savers that make InDesign a far superior program.
-- the ability to delete a guide without dragging it off the screen edge.
-- how can a modern page layout program neglect to let you set guides as bleeds automatically? Hello? Quark?
-- indesign's eyedropper tool applies type styles on the fly whereas in Quark you have to continuously click back on the measurements palette.
-- when oh when will Quark get hanging punctuation?
-- Quarks color palette drives me crazy, why in the world do I still have to name the color after I choose it's color breakdown? Why doesn't it name itself automatically?
-- In InDesign you don't need to click back and forth between the content and item tools in the tool bar, you simply click several times on whatever text or picture box you are looking at and it switches.
And I don't know what you are talking about in terms of editing illustrator docs in indesign which is possible. The paths read back and forth between both programs. And finally the bug list for this update, which is on quarks own website is frighteningly long.
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Tuesday, August 28 2007 @ 08:20 AM PDT