ooooo - DavidRavenMoon

XPress makes very good PDF's, and it's fast too.

I work in a PDF workflow and we have no issues with Quark at all. We actually save PostScript files, and Printergy refines the PDF's.

PDF's can be a pain too, because many people don't make them the right way.

But Quark works in a PDF workflow as well as ID.

And lets not forget Quark ran on Mac OS X at least a year before the Adobe stuff did.

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Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 10:47 AM PDT

ooooo - Vic Lennard

Of course QXP makes PDF/X-1a files directly (and has done since v7). And if you feel the typography is inferior to InDesign, I can only presume you haven't worked with v7 or v8.

In terms of creating pages, QXP was much faster than ID (I use both) even before v8. The improved UI is more intuitive (I've been working with it in a busy design studio for the past 3 weeks) and screen redraws much faster on non-Intel machines.

Without a doubt, QXP is a better production tool and handles conversion to Flash and html effectively. ID is probably a better creative tool but is more kludgey to use.

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Sunday, August 03 2008 @ 03:21 AM PDT