QuarkXpress 6.0

1. ( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 11 2006

   Quark Xpress 6 could really use a better manual. I prefer Adobe InDesign, but my job requires me sometime to work with Quark. Maybe I am just the Dummy that they write all those books for...

2. ( 2 of 6 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 17 2006

   Quark 6.0 is easy to use software. The only downside is that you cannot make documents bigger than 48". But the software is worth it and it is more user friendly than Indesign.

3. ( 6 of 8 found this review helpful ) Posted: May 9 2006

   Let me just start by saying Quark is absolute garbage. I come from adobe and corel, and quark is by far the most obtuse, clunky, buggy, bloated, backwards piece of software I've ever used. Little things like creating bullet points and changing font sizes on the fly take you 3 clicks through aggrivating menus, wherein corel it takes one click on your toolbar. As for it being the "print" standard, I use .tiff and .pdf for all my printing, and granted I havent done a huge amount of print work, but the work I do comes out fine and prints flawlessly from a corel PDF or Photoshop. I find most functions in quark are in corel, like creating masterpages and wrap around for text, that are MUCH more intuative in corel than in quark. I guess for magazines or books would be the only real reason to have this software, as flyers, brochures, and most other text layout graphics can easily be created in photoshop. I find myself searching through the help menu to find how to do simple things, like changing fonts on the fly, etc. Even using Indesign for my page layout is breathlessly EASY. I can change fonts on the fly, create lists easily, styles work how you'd think, and so on. Evenw ith quark 7 coming, i think it's too late for them to turn around. Indesign has taken over and so has corel. Say goodbye to this POS. Unless you NEED this software for compatibilty with a dying printer shop you do business with, I would NOT EVEN THINK about buying this bloated mess. Buy a version of 5 and buy a copy of Indesign instead.

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