• Quark Breaks Ground on Quark City in India

    Denver-based Quark, Inc., makers of InDesign-rival professional desktop publishing software QuarkXPress, is building its own city in Mohali, Punjab, India. After 18 months of planning, the foundation stone was laid by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh early this morning (U.S. time). The chief minister hopes the project will generate “25,000 direct and 100,000 indirect…

  • BlogRolling.com Over and Done With?

    Does the blogosphere still need a service like BlogRolling.com? Should it be BlogRolling.com, or is it time for a competitor to rise up? Now that BlogRolling.com is owned by the not-so-cool Tucows, BR doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy brand loyalty as it did as a one-man operation started as a labor of love.…

  • BBC Switch to Adobe Not a Trend, Says Quark

    Computer Business Review Online interviews Gavin Drake, marketing director of Quark Systems, Ltd., the UK arm of Colorado-based Quark, Inc., maker of would-be InDesign rival, QuarkXPress. Following a series of announcements of high profile publishers and creative organizations switching from QuarkXPress-based publishing and layout systems to Adobe InDesign was last week’s declaration of BBC Magazine’s…

  • Another Quark to InDesign Convert

    Kevin at GraphicPush has abandoned Quark forever. Hallelujah, brother! Welcome to the enlightened brotherhood of InDesigners! graphicPUSH: Dropping Quark “ I am shedding the skin of repressive page layout, casting off the yoke of primitive interface design and leaving behind crashes, bugs, low resolution previews and inferior typography control. Today, my friends, I am leaving…

  • BBC Magazines Migrates to Adobe InDesign

    Press Release SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 31, 2004–Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that BBC Magazines has adopted Adobe InDesign, Adobe’s award-winning layout and design software, to produce its portfolio of consumer magazines. Following a successful pilot with It’s Hot! Magazine in March 2003, BBC Magazines purchased 350 licenses and transitioned the majority of its 40…

  • QPS Arrives for QuarkXPress 6 and Mac OS X

    Press Release QuarkDispatch Server Certified to Run on Xserve G5 PARIS–(THE DESIGN WEBLOG)–Aug. 31, 2004–Quark Inc. today announced the release of Quark Publishing System 3 Classic Edition (QPS Classic 3), the next step in the development of the industry-leading software for professional publishing and editorial workflows. QPS Classic 3 provides full support for QuarkXPress 6…