QuarkXPress 7 Universal Beta 1 Available

Time-limited MacTel test-drive now mounted at the download site

While the QuarkXPress 7 Public Beta pro­gram has closed to par­tic­i­pants on the Windows plat­form, Quark as one more go ready for Mac OS X users; the Universal Binary Public Beta 1, now avail­able on the Public Beta down­load page

Registration is required, surf this link for that.

The Universal Beta is a 225MB DMG down­load, and is oper­a­ble for 60 days from the day of instal­la­tion (not a spe­cif­ic date, as was the pre­vi­ous two Betas), and requires PowerMac G4 or lat­er or, of course, one of the new MacTel machines. Quark also has spe­cif­ic instruc­tions for clean­ing the last bits of oth­er 7 ver­sions from your dri­ves; it is high­ly sug­gest­ed you fol­low them.

QuarkXPress 7, pub­lic beta, uni­ver­sal binary

7 thoughts on “QuarkXPress 7 Universal Beta 1 Available”

  1. Peter

    Cool!

    But:
    Where’s the Beta of the uni­ver­sal bina­ry Creative Suite?

    Oh, I almost for­got, I have to work in the slow and mem­o­ry eat­ing emu­la­tion mode with unfore­see­able results and not work­ing parts (e.g. Version Cue) until Q2 2007.
    :-(

    Please Adobe, set the pri­or­i­ties right.

    Greetings
    Peter

  3. Jeff

    Porting soft­ware to a new archi­tec­ture takes time. As Woz men­tioned, Apple is far ahead of sched­ule than it lead on when it made the announcement.

    Adobe chose to work on its new appli­ca­tions rather than wast­ing resources port­ing its old ones (as Quark did between 5 and 6). I would rather Adobe con­cen­trate its efforts on mak­ing sta­ble MacIntel ver­sions of CS prod­ucts while adding new fea­tures and improv­ing the pro­grams. This takes time, but I trust Adobe to do it as flaw­less­ly as pos­si­ble (Quark, on the oth­er hand, took 3 years to port to OSX and 6.x is laughable).

    Furthermore, pro­fes­sion­al desk­tops won’t be avail­able until late sum­mer, so that’s cut­ting the wait time almost in half for what I guess is a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of cre­ative pro­fes­sion­als. And, giv­en the prob­lems with Apple’s first G5 batch­es (I have a friend whose G5 still won’t sleep and wake prop­er­ly) and those pop­ping up with MacBook Pros, it may be wise to wait a few months and let Apple work out the kinks in these sys­tems, cut­ting down the wait time even more.

    Be patient.

  4. Peter

    Sure, guys,
    I hope you don’t believe your­self what you write.
    Hey, don’t get offend­ed just because some­body crit­i­cis­es Adobe…

    Apple might have been a bit ahead of the sched­ule, orig­i­nal­ly the plan was June or July 2006 I believe.

    But I do have to laugh a bit when I hear Adobe now talk­ing of Q2 2007 for Intel-support. Remember, last year on the WWDC? Bruce said (quote) Adobe will be the first ven­dor to have all his appli­ca­tions run native­ly on Mactel.
    AND NOW THEY WILL BE LAST.

    Just to stir it, one migth say that for Freehand and Golive it is easy, they just have to throw them away ;-)

    Anyhow, I am glad there is more than one ven­dor and com­pe­ti­tion will make them move faster.

    By the way, many pros use MacBook Pros, not every­body is static.

    Greetings
    Peter

  5. Rob

    And some of us pros use Windows and are hap­pi­ly already using Intel-coded soft­ware with no delays or issues of any kind.

  6. Jeff

    No need to get nasty, Peter. It’s soft­ware. I just hap­pen to think the crit­i­cism Adobe is receiv­ing isn’t war­rant­ed and stat­ed why.

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