[WinMac] Re: Quack
Thomas Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:33:11 -0500
>>[BTW, most, but not all of my customers use QX... The smart ones have
>>switched to PageMaker because of its stability; and the unlucky ones are
>>stuck with Quirk because they are forced to...]
>From: Alex Dearden <pata@tampabay.rr.com>
>I disagree. In my experience it has been the other way around. PageMaker
>(which I privately call CrapMaker but wouldn't be a good idea to do it on
>this list) yet you don't see me bashing PageMaker any time someone
>mentions it do you.
>
>In my experience (and most of our clients') PageMaker is an unstable
>product that can't do all the things Quark can (apologies to Leonard from
>Adobe but it's what we've found). So my "smart" clients have switched to
>Quark or started with it and kept going at it.
We've been using PageMaker on the Mac for many years and found it to be
extremely stable.
>There's a reason why Quark is THE Page Layout software of choice
>worldwide.
Why is when you attend a graphic design workshop people always act so
shocked when you tell them that you use PageMaker but then I hear them
complain about Quark this or Quark that? I think a lot of this hatred of
PageMaker is total irrational, based on hype not facts.
>Please, no flames.
None intended; just puzzled.
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Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed Medical Center Blvd
Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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