• QuarkXPress 7: Quark’s Last, Best Hope

    QuarkXPress 7: It alone determines whether the war–and Quark–ends this year. Adobe and Quark are both test-firing their massive 10-megaton DTP missiles. Both will fire in 2005. Adobe’s InDesign 4 projectile intends to kill Quark. Quark’s XPress 7 rocket is only intended to keep Quark alive long enough to keep on fighting. If XPress 7…

  • Newest Quark Defectors Are Big Names

    Three leading advertising and branding agencies announce their formal switch from QuarkXPress for page layout to InDesign CS. Joining the who’s-who publishing, advertising, and branding roster that includes Bernstein-Rein Advertising, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, GSD&M, The Integer Group, Landor Associates, Publicis West, and Schadler Kramer Group, are big names Oglivy & Mather, DDB Worldwide, and…

  • Referrer Log Spam

    I’ve been curious about this for a while, watching my referrer logs (where visitors are coming from) fill up with apparent referrals from site with obvious spammer domains–I won’t use the words, we all know them. These sites should have no interest in referring to my sites. What does a gambling site want with QuarkVSInDesign.com?…

  • Response To “A QuarkXPress User’s Review of Indesign CS”

    A QuarkXPress user expresses frustrations with InDesign CS features–or lack thereof–and Quark VS InDesign eases the frustration. Dear Dave Girard: Correct, command-click (control+click on Windows) behaves differently in InDesign than in Quark. In Quark, as you observe, command-click temporarily changes the currently selected tool into the Move tool, allowing you to drag objects around. And,…

  • Blog Spam = Blog Success?

    If the amount of comment spam a blog receives equates to the popularity and success of a blog, I Am Pariah is pretty successful. This blog ranks very high on Google for a number of popular search terms, as it also does on Technorati, Bloglines, and other places. In some way, this indicates the success…

  • Adobe Promotes Shantanu Narayen to President and COO

    Shantanu Narayen, Adobe Systems, Inc. President and COO Adobe Systems, the publisher of Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, and other tools standard in every creative and business workflow has appointed Shantanu Narayen, 41, to the newly created positon of president and chief operating officer. Narayen, a native of Hyderabad, India, was executive vice president of worldwide products…