LEAKED! Creative Suite 3, InDesign CS3, QuarkXPress 7 Features

According to the Absolute Data sur­vey, Creative Suite 3 Premium will include the usu­al line­up of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Version Cue, Adobe Bridge, and Acrobat Professional. A new edi­tion, Creative Suite 3 Platinum, will alleged­ly replace GoLive with Dreamweaver, and throw in Flash.

The Survey

Among inquiries relat­ed to num­ber of licens­es of dif­fer­ent ver­sions of XPress and InDesign, and how much each is used, the sur­vey asked par­tic­i­pants to respond with rat­ings on a scale of 1 (com­plete­ly dis­agree) to 5 (com­plete­ly agree) to ques­tions such as:

“If InDesign CS2 was not offered as part of Creative Suite 2, my group would still have pur­chased it as a sep­a­rate prod­uct to use for a part or all of our page lay­out work.”

“How sat­is­fied are you with Quark in general?”

“How sat­is­fied are you with Adobe in general?”

“My group start­ed using Adobe InDesign as our pri­ma­ry prod­uct in the recent past and due to our dis­sat­is­fac­tion with Adobe InDesign we are very open to switch­ing to QuarkXPress if Quark releas­es a strong product.”

Adobe would nei­ther con­firm nor deny the infor­ma­tion from the sur­vey, cit­ing the long-standing cor­po­rate pol­i­cy of declin­ing to com­ment on unan­nounced soft­ware. Adobe spokesper­son Denise Styerwalt did state that Adobe is not the spon­sor of the survey.

Our phone calls and e‑mails to Quark for com­ment regard­ing XPress 7’s fea­tures, the company’s involve­ment with the sur­vey, and how the sur­vey spon­sor may have obtained the infor­ma­tion about Adobe’s prod­ucts went unreturned.

We were also unable to reach AbsolutData by tele­phone to either of its U.S. offices.

Judging by the ques­tions asked and the man­ner in which invi­ta­tions to par­tic­i­pate were dis­trib­uted, the sev­er­al dozen query sur­vey was almost sure­ly spon­sored by a cer­tain Denver-based soft­ware com­pa­ny. How did the sur­vey spon­sor obtain such detailed infor­ma­tion on Adobe’s unan­nounced prod­ucts? Is the infor­ma­tion accu­rate, or is it all just edu­cat­ed guesses?

We’ll just have to wait and see.

QuarkXPress 7’s most recent release esti­mate is “ear­ly 2006,” and Creative Suite 3 and InDesign CS3, if Adobe adheres to its 2003 com­mit­ment of 12–18 month release cycles, won’t be avail­able until late Spring 2006 at the earliest. 

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16 thoughts on “LEAKED! Creative Suite 3, InDesign CS3, QuarkXPress 7 Features”

  1. Sara Froehlich

    If there is a Premium Edition of the CS3 Suite that includes Dreamweaver, that’s for me. As a user of both, and as an author of GoLive tuto­ri­als and a Dreamweaver course, I pre­fer Dreamweaver. I have had numer­ous crash­es with GoLive and find Dreeamweaver more intu­itive. I was hop­ing that Dreaweaver would get the PDF capa­bil­i­ties of GoLive..maybe that will hap­pen any­way. At any rate this was a very intrugu­ing arti­cle and it will be very inter­est­ing to see what comes to fruition!

  2. Brian Cupp

    I asked the com­pa­ny “Absolute Data Research & Analytics” where they got my email address from . They respond­ed say­ing they recieved it from Adobe.

  3. Pariah S. Burke Post author

    Very inter­est­ing, Brian. 

    What’s even more inter­est­ing is that anoth­er per­son whom I trust told me that the e‑mail address at which he received the sur­vey invi­ta­tion is used sole­ly for cor­re­spon­dence with Quark, that he has nev­er giv­en it to any­one else.

    I real­ly wish Quark would return my calls or e‑mails about this. Adobe says they aren’t behind it, but Quark has yet to comment.

    If you look at Absolut Data’s clients, nei­ther Quark nor Adobe is list­ed… But anoth­er indus­try play­er is.

    If you take the sur­vey, it is very much about QuarkXPress and var­i­ous add-on mod­ules for XPress. Of course, no one will own up to pay­ing for the survey.

  4. ExQuarkian

    I think every­one should prob­a­bly know that QuarkXpress 7 will NOT have any flash import func­tion­al­i­ty. I would be sur­prised if it even man­ages flash out­put in ver­sion 7.

  5. Brady J. Frey

    Should they real­ly han­dle flash any­how, though? GoLive is junk, but Dreamweaver is a less­er evil in the end – nei­ther appli­ca­tion is made for high end web devel­op­ment. They bun­dle it with BBEdit capa­bil­i­ties, we may talk further…

  6. Pariah S. Burke Post author

    Should it han­dle Flash…? Yes and no. I can see a real need for export­ing FlashPaper from XPress–FlashPaper is becom­ing anoth­er form of output–but not for Flash ani­ma­tions et al for Web use.

    GoLive and DreamWeaver… I’ve played with both, but have nev­er been able to get into any WYSIWYG HTML edi­tor. I began design­ing and deploy­ing pro­fes­sion­al Websites back in late ’94 when WYSIWYGs were use­less. Now, ten years lat­er, I just can’t break the habit of writ­ing code by hand. I comp and lay­out site tem­plates in Illustrator, slice and export, then imme­di­ate­ly rewrite the XHTML and CSS code in TopStyle, HomeSite, or BBEdit.

  7. Brady J. Frey

    I for­got about flash­pa­per, I can see the use for web abil­i­ties in there.

    I’d agree with you on the cod­ing por­tion – my expe­ri­ence with dreamweaver is it takes me just as much time to fix what it out­puts as it would to code it right in the first place.

  8. Dean Wares

    It seems to me that the whole cod­ing process has been done in a very hap­haz­ard and lazy fash­ion. I can only assume that it was cod­ed by a hack who seems to have jumped on the whole flash band­wag­on. Or maybe some­one who real­ly isn’t very focused and pas­sion­ate about the indus­try we work in.

  9. Lee Sargent

    Maybe he should spend more time at his desk learn­ing the art of cod­ing instead of treat­ing the office as a youth club.

  10. Pariah S. Burke Post author

    Dean and Lee:

    Admittedly, I’m still work­ing on my first cup of cof­fee, but… What–or who–are you talk­ing about?

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  13. Samuel John Klein

    “indi­ka”:

    please send me quark 7

    Well, no can do there. But Quark has a pub­lic beta pro­gram cur­rent­ly under­way that allows you to down­load a prac­tial­ly ful­ly func­tion­al beta to do what­ev­er you want to it. It’s a free down­load, but expires at the end of March.

    You can find it here:
    http://​www​.quark​.com/​p​r​o​d​u​c​t​s​/​x​p​r​e​s​s​/​s​e​v​e​n​/​b​e​t​a.html

    Good luck!

  14. Neelesh Singh

    I Personally think this was the sur­vey from Quark behalf as my friends name was there in the quark list. I think it is quite not fair on behalf of Quark to share his email address with a third par­ty ven­dor. Also the way the sur­vey was made about the fea­tures of theQuarkexp 7 shows that info may most proabably would have com from quark.

  15. Kevin Jones

    I know some­one who says that Creative Suite 3 is com­ing out in 1 week, My source is extreme­ly reliable…

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