Quark v. InDesign Duel at MacExpo 2004

At MacExpo 2004, which runs November 18–20 in Islington, London, the high­light is sure to be the day one duel between Adobe InDesign CS and QuarkXPress. Chris Kitchener from Adobe and Shellie Hall with Quark will be cham­pi­oning their respec­tive con­tenders in the desk­top pub­lish­ing show­down. They will attempt to prove, in front of an undoubt­ed­ly packed house, that their respec­tive appli­ca­tions are supe­ri­or in capa­bil­i­ties, real world appli­ca­tion, and even future versions.

It’s already known that Hall will bring Quark’s secret weapon, the hith­er­to unseen but soon-to-be-released QuarkXPress 6.5, which includes QuarkVista, a set of basic image manip­u­la­tion xten­sions to allow basic pho­to­graph­ic work with­in Quark. While excit­ing, the true spec­u­la­tion around the are­na is whether Kitchener will bring InDesign CS (ver­sion 3), the cur­rent and year old release, or the next ver­sion of InDesign, cur­rent­ly in beta.