Category: Creative Pro

  • Still Laughing At Quark

    I’m still laughing at Quark 6. I’ve seen it. I’ve played with it. It looks nice Cocoa-ized (meaning it runs under, and looks like, a native Mac OS X environment), but it’s the same damn piece of crap we’ve been forced to use for thirteen years. The UI (user interface) is the same clunky, out-of-date,…

  • Meet Me: How Conference

    2003 HOW Design Conference – June 5-8 Anyone else going? If so, let’s meet up.

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  • Quark 6–PR-Speak to English

    Translation of Selected Portions of Last Week’s “QuarkXPress 6 Feature Overview” Announcement from PR-Speak to English

  • Quark 6 Is Coming

    I wonder how long after initial release it will take for them to release the 6.1 patch that makes it work?

  • Quark Is Dying. Here’s Why

    I originally started this as a response to Blind Energy’s comment on my earlier post Quark: Adobe’s Best Friend. I’m very passionate about this topic–if you had to use Quark and/or InDesign day-in and day-out for years, you’d be passionate about the topic too–and I realized it was a little longer than a comment should…

  • Quark: Adobe’s Best Friend

    Never before have I witnessed a company so creatively advertising the superiority of a product or company as I have Quark, Inc.’s efforts toward promoting InDesign and Adobe. MacEdition: “ Publishing professionals who attended a Quark-convened ‘executive summary’ in New York last week are still abuzz over the performance of Quark CEO Fred Ebrahimi… [who]…