QuarkXPress 6 For Mac OS X

MikeXpop writes "Apple's front page shows that QuarkXPress has been announced for Mac OS X and will be available as of next week. Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores?"

Comments

Double-take?

[captnjameskirk]

Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores No, but I got whiplash when I saw the $899.95 pricetag! :)

Re:Double-take?

[JohnTheFisherman]

No, but I got whiplash when I saw the $899.95 pricetag! :)

Damn, no wonder Diablo II didn't sell well. That's steep.

Re:Double-take?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, at least it's priced under $900.

Re:Double-take?

[Master Bait]

Hey, what's a few hundred bucks when they've added all those awesome features like the Automatic Star Button right on the toolbar and the ability to save your layout as an exceptionally lame static-sized web page? And not to mention an insanely great pallette of web safe colors!

I'm ready with my credit card because I know that Operators are Standing By!

This was

[CptChipJew]

really the last huge Mac application that wasn't ported to OS X. Now the brand new Macs at my school's newspaper can actually use the OS they were meant to run.

I don't recall the name of the guy who runs Quark, but he was always known for talking about how the Mac is "a dying platform". He can also be seen making first post's to slashdot stories regarding BSD and Netcraft.

Flashback?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores?

Ah yes.. because when I think of QuarkExpress, I immediately think of slaying demons, collecting precious gems, and casting magic spells on vicious great spiders.

Re:Flashback?

[tenton]

You obviously have no idea how it is in the publishing industry. :P

diablo II

[iate138]

sure, because i always equate decapitating the undead with aligning text! bring me the +5 ringlets of helvetica!

I won't bother to RTFA

[GauteL]

and I have no clue about Quark Express, so according to good tradition, this is the right story to post my opinion on.

I just have to say that Quark Express is the worst f***** web browser EVER! And they've taken away all of the good options from the last version. Quite frankly I'm scared that Quark Express will be totally useless as a web browser with version 7.

Trying it out now

[pldms]

Works well. I'm running it on GNU/Hurd v1.0. Shame I had to stop playing Duke Nukem Forever to check it out.

Just popping out in my hover car...

For the Mac?

[grub]

Anyone else getting a flashback to when Diablo II was in stores?"

For the Mac? Ohh two weeks ago.

Re:Very Pricey...

[V. Mole]

Or save yourself several hundred dollars and pick up a copy of, say, Quickbooks Pro. No, it's not the same function as Quark, but neither is Photoshop, so I didn't think it mattered.

SOJs

[starcraftsicko]

No, but I got whiplash when I saw the $899.95 pricetag!

I'll trade you 5 SOJs for it!

Irony

[babbage]

Clearly, putting the word "express" in the name of the product reveals a sense of humor previously unsuspected at Quark... :-)

Re:Quark 6 or The Final Nail in InDesign's coffin

[Theatetus]

We used to be 90 percent Quark and 15 percent Pagemaker

Wow... that must have been a big company.

hello, Quark? 2001 called...

[jub]

and they want their press release back.

Re:Not so fast....

[mgs1000]

What did you eat for lunch?

Re:Quark 6 or The Final Nail in InDesign's coffin

[LMariachi]

Most InDesign users wouldn't be sending out InDesign format documents to prepress, they'd be sending PDFs.