wizenPub said:
If not in practice, in thinking...the Quark 7 beta is a much more realistic and forward thinking program than Pagestrator, I mean InDesign, ever was. Quark has focused so much on actual workflows that those who say they won't switch back are in a small potato category whereas bigger companies that would like to have all the real-world collaboration and quality assurance tools of Quark 7 will just have to spend so many thousands on lost labor...big potatos don't like hemorhaging unecessary funds for too long. Plus even the features that are catchup like shadows and transparency are superior in Q7. Try creating a 40% black box with 100% white type in InDesign...you'll need 2 boxes. I find InDesign truly lacking in innovation and prone to all sorts of illogical behavior. Also, the paucity of ID plug-ins compared to Quark XT's shows why Quark still enjoys 85% of the market (according to printers who get files).
Quark 7 is not forward thinking. I've been using the beta for a couple weeks. There's not much in it that InDesign is not already doing.
If Quark was so focused on workflows, we wouldn't need to buy all those xtensions now would we. My company spends thousands on them.
InDesign is more powerful than this Quark lover ever thought. It's highly scriptable (Applescript for the Mac, Javascript which is cross-platform, and VBScript for the PC). Quark has applescript on the Mac and it's become quite sluggish and buggy.
Here in our mid-sized printing company in North America we see about a 50/50 ratio of InDesign/Quark documents. We primarily print magazines, catalogs and periodicals.
If you think big companies are turning a blind eye to InDesign you would be dead wrong.