Tag: QvI

Brief overview of the war offers interesting insights The website Multchannel Merchant has today published an article on the continuting commercial shakeout between QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign amongst catalog publishers. The insights are intriguing not so much because they are substantially different but because they come from such a spcialized branch of the design world.

Public Beta 2 about to time out, but Mac OS X Users will have a Universal Binary to test. Announced via email to program participants today, the QuarkXPress 7 Public Beta 2 is set to time-bomb tomorrow, Tuesday 2 May 2006. On Wednesday, 3 May, the QuarkXPress public beta test phase will offically close, except…

Des Moines, Rochester added to growing list of InDesign User Groups The InDesign User Group are in the process of inagurating two new chapters to thier growing list: Des Moines IA, and Rochester, NY. The IDUG Des Moines User Group launch is scheduled for 9 May 2006. This meeting will feature InDesign Product Speicalist Noha…

Conference/Cruise set for a 7-Day Jaunt from Fort Lauderdale in October The PowerXChange has announced, via its e-newsletter, a 7-day Carribean cruise/QuarkXPress 7 training conference slated for this coming October. Called “CruiseXPress”, the event is chartered through Ocean Class Cruises, a company that specializes in seaborne training conferences. The event boasts Frank Romano as keynote…

Next Gen XPress launch to be celebrated; actual release date unclear According to The Mac Observer (citing Design Tools Monthly), Quark, Inc is slated to fete XPress 7 with an invitation-only launch party in New York on 23 May 2006. Whether or not the product will actually start shipping on the 23rd is still an…

New Public Beta set to expire 1 May 2006 As promised by Quark (and reported earlier here) the QuarkXPress 7 Public Beta 2 has been posted on Quark’s public beta website as of today, the day before the time bombs in the Public Beta 1 are set to go off; Public Beta 1 will become…

Macintosh users won’t see Universal until Creative Suite 3, says Adobe According to Terri Stone, Creativepro.com editor-in-chief (reported here, including a link to Seeking Alpha’s transcript of the call), during the conference call of 22 March discussing 2006 1st Quarter Adobe earnings, Adobe executives verified that Macintosh users won’t be seeing MacTel-native Creative Suite apps…

As the hard limit for the first XPress public beta approaches, Quark announces beta 2 Announced to the current members of the QuarkXPress Public Beta test program today, a reminder that XPress Public Beta 1 is scheduled to auto-expire at the end of this month, 31 March 2006. The Public Beta program is to continue,…

Update fixes most recent reported problems This week Extensis, Inc. released an update to its Suitcase Fusion font manager. This update fixes problems reported by users with the most recent version, v 12.0. The update moves the version number to 12.0.1. The installer, weighing in at about 56 MB, fixes the following major problems amongst…

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…