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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Quark Customers Help Redesign QuarkStore

Press Release Quark Customers Help Redesign QuarkStore for Improved Online Shopping Experience DENVER–(THE DESIGN WEBLOG)–31 August, 2004–Feedback from Quark cus­tomers guid­ed Quark“s redesign of its online shop­ping site, QuarkStore, which …

QuarkXPress 6.5: A Show of Good Faith?

Whether Quark regains the sta­tus of seri­ous InDesign com­peti­tor or sim­ply becomes to InDesign what PageMaker was to XPress–an aging but occas­sion­al­ly use­ful sec­ond stringer–will depend large­ly on what 6.5 holds. The half-step ver­sion needs to prove Quark’s com­mit­ment to the cus­tomer and what his work is about. The mar­ket needs from Quark a show of good faith.