Re: Pagemaker vs. Quark

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: My feelings exactly. For 4 years now, I have worked for a newsprint publishing company and we have always used PM. I love the intuitive features as well as plugins and scripting capabilities. Just recently our company has come under new management and we are urged to persue Quark as our layout program of choice. I have read the manuals, worked with practice files and if what I am seeing is the norm, Quark just doesn't do the job well at all. : I have been told that Quark will make my job easier. Well, please will someone tell me how! Everything I do in Quark takes more mouse clicks than it takes with PM. It doesn't handle illustrator files well at all. Then the Mac to PC conversion problem seems to be a huge brick wall. Yet our new management still feels that Quark is the only program to use because it does seem to be the industry standard and "true professionals" use it. : Hey, our production department works a 12-17 hour day on press day. I'm for any program that gets me and my crew home earlier or at least produces a better press job. If anyone can tell us how Quark will do these things. Please pipe in now! In the mean time...I'm anxiously awaiting Adobe's new Quark Killer which I'm sure will rock. : : : : : Help! Everyone is talking Quark this and Quark that. Wouldn't it make more sense to use Pagemaker if using other Adobe products ie: illustrator, photoshop...or is Quark that much superior? : : : I've started working professionally as a DTPer for about a year now, and although i feel the need to take quark classes and layout documents for practice, it Suprises me that Quark is seen as an industry standard. It seems that everything you do from bringing in a graphic to typing requires two steps as opposed to Pagemaker's "plug n play" usage. Like I said, I struggle learn and work with Quark in order to function in the DTP world, but I just don't like it. if anyone can give a point for point explanation of why Quark is considered better than Pagemaker and an industry standard, please drop me a line. : : Reply-Quark vs PM6 : : Can't give you a four point rationale for Quark. But I can give you a one point reason - inertia. : : In my 20+ experience in the publishing industry most people tend to stay with what they know. It has little or no relationship to the : : quality of the product. : : We tried Quark and quite frankly got tired of the converstion promlems (Mac vs PC). Quark for Mac is impossible to convert to Quark for PC ( or so says the "experts" at Quark ). : : I believe them. : : I have never had a seroius problem converting Pagemaker Mac to Pagemaker PC or vice versa. : : Regarding the comment about having integrated programs not being an advantage - get real. It is a major advantage in terms of time, : : reliability and cost. Unfortunately, Quark is pretty lame in that department. Perhaps their new release, if it ever appears, will : : correct that oversight. Until then ....

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