[WinMac] Re: Quack

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:30:25 -0500

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Dear Darryl:

Aldus always HAD high end features available for publishing that far
exceeded anything Quark had to offer: Aldus TrapWise (for advanced
trapping) and PressWise (for page imposition) are the first two that come
to mind. And the TrapWise from even 5 years ago absolutely *BLASTS* even
QX4's crummy trapping right out of the water.

At 12:55 PM 2/1/99 -0800, Darryl wrote:
>Well, i'm no desktop publisher. But i remember back in the day's when
>i aspired to be one (maybe 5-6 years ago), Pagemaker was still
>considered a "starter" DTP program.
>
>That is to say, Quark was the first to innovate with features that
>_publishing professionals_ needed. i'm not sure, but something about
>large multi-paged documents. Indexing them. Things like that.
>
>Now this of course is based on 1) only knowing Pagemaker, 2) being
>completely and utterly befuddled when confronted with Quark,
>3) hearsay, and a rapidly fading memory.
>
>Friends that _were_ in desktop publishing swore by (and probably at)
>Quark. But like it or not, it seemed to be the standard for "serious"
>publishing.
>
>i wouldn't be surprised if Pagemaker now matches Quark feature for
>feature and is maybe more stable. i always liked it, probably
>because the interface was so easy-to-use. And hey, look at the rest
>of the Adobe line, solid performers like Photoshop and Illustrator.
>(Never got much into Freehand.)
>
>But i think that early on, they were leapfrogged by QX in the features
>war (can you say "checkbox item?") and for better or worse, now Quark
>appears to own the market.
>
>But hey, i'm not in the publishing market at all. This is just a
>wannabe's view. >:}
>
>(Pagemaker was always plenty powerful for the one to four page
>newsletters, brochures or flyers i was working on.)
>
>--Darryl

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