QuarkXPress vs. InDesign, yet again!

[jayscheuerle]

Quark at work. ID at home. ID is my personal choice and I use it at work for one-off projects that our Production department doesn't have to pick up (they're still OS9). Someday, when everybody gets upgraded, I'd hope that ID would be a choice.

Interestingly, I'm still faster with Quark I think, but I just prefer ID...

 

[prophet621]

I'll chime in on this. I have been learning InDesign for a few weeks now and I am very impressed with it. It's a very polished, powerful and flexable app, particularly in CS2. Huge improvment over it's predessor Page Maker, which by the way I hate with an absolute passion. Almost bordering on a deep psychotic hatred.

I rencently got an ibook and many places in the Graphic Design field still want knowledge of Quark so I bought a copy from Ebay and installed it. Early impression... I would rather use PageMaker. Granted, I am still very new at Quark and am unfamiliar with all the tips, tricks and shortcuts but it really makes me long for the features of InDesign. I would rather bang my head against a brick wall for an hour than use Quark. I don't particularly care for the layout of the app and the learning curve seems to be overly complex.. in other words, feels very unpolished. Again, I haven't played with it much, these are just early impressions so don't get all anal about me critisizing it.

From my understanding, version 7 is said to be a major improvement to bring it in line with InDesigns capabilities and try to draw back some of the Quark users that the company had all but ignored so I'll be egar to take a peek at that one. As far as 6.5 goes, I'll grudgingly use it enough to get a fair grasp of it but I'll happily stick to InDesign as my app of choice.

 

[jayscheuerle]

Quark's peeks don't come cheep.