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!

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Tuesday, October 10 2006 @ 05:01 PM PDT

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.

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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.

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Tuesday, October 24 2006 @ 09:09 AM PDT