• ALAP’s InDesign Plug-Ins Discontinued, PowerXChange Offers Consolation Prize

    InBooklet, InEffects, and other ALAP plug-ins for InDesign discontinued; replaced with “similarly featured” QuarkXPress xtensions. by Samuel John Klein and Pariah S. Burke Once, not long ago, there was a little software company with an interesting name: A Lowly Apprentice Production, Inc., or ALAP. ALAP didn’t make software that stood on its own. Rather, it…

  • Markzware’s Q2ID Plug-In Converts Quark 5 and 6 Files to InDesign

    Q2ID brings QuarkXPress 5.x and 6.x document conversion to InDesign. Q2ID (QuarkXPress to InDesign document conversion) publisher: Markzware platform: price: $199 usd rating: More and more lately I find myself reviewing products that are powerful but simple, applications or plug-ins that answer broad sweeping needs unassumingly. Markzware’s Q2ID is one such plug-in. And, like all…

  • Off to Texas Again

    I have to say, I really like Texas. Though I’ve never lived there, and my opinion might be different if I had, I’ve visited Texas more than a handful of times now. Each time has been a wonderful experience, whether it was a fly-in/fly-out one-day consultation in Dallas, two weeks on-site in Fort Worth, or…

  • QuarkXPress 7: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

    It’s the most powerful, most feature-packed version of QuarkXPress ever built, they said. It stimulates creativity and inspires organic work, they claim. They said it will revolutionize publishing. Quark VS InDesign.com goes deeper into QuarkXPress 7 than anyone before to see if they were right.

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    Your opinion is worth something. What is your opinion of Quark VS InDesign.com? What types of articles and features would like to see more of? Which less of? What do you think of the site design? Is Quark VS InDesign.com easy to navigate? Tell us what you like and don’t like about Quark VS InDesign.com,…

  • Lampooning the QuarkXPress 7 Reviewer Guide

    Don’t review the hype. Quark VS InDesign.com staffers lampoon the hilarious QuarkXPress 7 Reviewer’s Guide. New software is often released to the press along with a reviewer’s guide. Such guides highlight major features or changes and usually provide a project-based walk-through of using the software in a typical (or idealized) workflow. “We cannot risk offering…