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Re: Pagemaker or Quark
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Posted by Bojan Sredojevic on March 15, 1997 at 16:26:36:
In Reply to: Pagemaker or Quark posted by Clayton Brooks on October 24, 1996 at 12:05:21:
: Howdy all,
: Honestly, I'm not trying to start any fighting here, but
: my question is this:
: Which would you buy, Pagemaker or Quark?
: Here are some facts. I'm just learning DTP. I'm running
: Win95 on a Pentium 150 w/ 32 Meg ram. Since I am a
: student, I can buy these programs at considerable
: discounts--PM=$199, Q=$249--the difference in price
: probably isn't great enough to steer me one way or the other. My goal, really, is to become proficient on the
: "industry standard" applications. (Like I said, I'm a student, so this isn't for work or anything.)
: If any of you have some wonderful insights as to one
: or the other, I would greatly appreciate it.
: Thanks millions,
: Clayton
I'd vote for Q - if I may.
a) Quark Inc. is concentrated on making a single
program that beets a spectrum of Adobe DTP Software.
b) Pagemaker has been conseived by Aldus and then taken
over by Adobe. No matter how great a software house can
be it takes time to adjust huge masses of people to
adjust to concepts of developing an idea started by another
not so huge mass of people, the idea being a - computer program.
It simply takes time and that time is slower than the frantic
DTP time.
c) Most people I know and some of them being in the DTP bussines
for a long time describe QuarkXpress as - "worryless".
Best wishes
Boyan
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