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Quark 6 Alpha

Thanks for your feedback on my site.

I try and treat all forms of design with the same kinds of principles whatever the medium. I do a lot of brochures etc, and often use a progression of ideas as the brochure unfolds, so that's something that I used in the site as well. It's kind of intriguing I guess. Not so much after you've been there before though.

But hey - don't go overboard! I'll get a big head and nobody wants to see that.

Chuck

PS - Please switch back to the QXP discussion now! ;)
 
we are tipping our toes into indesign, i went to the Adobe inDesign roadshow in london last week, and apart from a slightly dodgy and too buzzword filled presentation, it was very useful.

Weve got a spare mac with 10.2.4 on it that indesign will go on when it arrives and we'll be trying a few jobs in ID. Im also updating my mac at work to 10.2.4 and trying quark within classic.

Ive had 10 on my home macs since it came out, but i dont use quark very much at home so ive yet to see how itll go.
 
Anyone know if Quark6 will have PDF export built in?

I assume it will, as itd be quite embarrassing for Quark to have to use Distiller in classic for making PDFs.

I know you can print to PDFs in X, but you dont have the control to do Print or Press or Custom settings.

Also, anyone know if itll have transparency and stuff, i have a sneaky suspicion itll basically be Quark5 in OSX :-(

also, heres that article from macuser again

http://madeonamac.homeunix.net/~matthewm/blog/images/sml-goodbyemrquark.jpg

just to show how arrogant quark is.
 
i think pdf's are a system feature. you no longer
need the third party application (quark) to have
its own pdf support. all you do is go to the print
dialog and save as pdf. apple's trying to make
it easy for quark :D

oh sorry, you knew that. um...custom pdf's?
good question...how come we dont have
distiller like options?
 
yep, the print to pdf in OSX could do with more control.

Maybe not necessarily native to the OS, but if quark 6 is to compete with indesign then it will need to be able to save PDF files.

indesign has essentially the same options as distiller and its not just the press or print settings which are neccessary, many publications have their own highly custom settings.

Quark will need this, and as OSX doesnt yet nativly have this level of customisation, quark will have to have some system of their own (and presumably the indignation of getting a license from adobe).

anyway, this is all speculation as none of this is general knowledge yet.

on playing with indesign i noticed the lovely hi res preview for images on screen. I also noticed that quark are offering soemthing similar for quark if you register 6 on the web. However, its a plugin, and if its anywhere near as clunky as the previous hires preview plugin for quark (4 or 5) then its a waste of time, this surely should be built into quark.

this just gives me a general indication the 6 will indeed be 5 but Cocoa? or Carbon? or whatever, the one that doesnt run in 9.
 
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