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QuarkXPress 6 For Mac OS X

Posted by Hemos on from the start-your-printing dept.

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?"

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  1. does it cut it ? by z80 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That Quark is finally coming out with a OS X Version of Quark is indeed important news. But for me who works at a magazine and sees how important it is that everything just WORKS I would say we are a long way from upgrading to either Quark Express 6 or Indesign 2.

    Just switching versions is far to dangerous and it takes loads and loads of testing and re-testing to make sure the new software makes the cut. I for one think this is too late - the logical upgrade for many of my collegues in the business have been Windows and Indesign. It's a cheaper and better solutions for those who work in a 99% Windows environment already.

    And just for the sake of it - I'm not a Windows troll. I use Mac OS X exclusively at home and both Windows and Mac OS X at work. I love Mac OS X but from an IT Department point of view, Macintoshes are just to darned expensive if you are going to upgrade and buy ten new PowerMacs with ten new versions of QuarkXpress 6.0.

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  2. bad experiences with Quark by elbanevretep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I once had a job that involved connecting to Quark and Pagemaker using their developer interfaces.
    I don't know if things are better now, but at that time the Quark API was a nasty mess compared to Pagemakers nice clean well-documented API.

    And when I complained about it in a public forum, they had the nerve to send "cease and desist" letters demanding that I take down my comments!

  3. Re:Too late for Quark... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Quark made a *huge* mistake by taking this long to get to OSX.

    Quark has...problems....

    I worked at quark back in the late 90s. And believe it or not, they had internal versions of XPress running on Max OSX back then -- not Aqua versions, but running versions of XPress nonetheless.

    The thing is...they fired everyone. Shortly after I left, I found out that the company fired nearly every one of it's most knowledgable developers. Senior staff. People who wrote the original XPress code. And then, a few years ago, Tim Gill sold his share to his partner, Fred Ibrahimi. And that was pretty much it for the Quark software developer. Tim was responsible for feeding and care of the techies, so to speak, and when he left, I know that a lot of people were concerned for their jobs.

    For kicks, I just took a look at the Quark jobs webpage. Turns out, they have two jobs available in Denver -- one product management, and one product analyst. However, they have nearly 20 jobs available in Quark India.

    I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

    Quark's mismanagement of it's technical staff is what has led to these abysmal release schedules, and they don't seem to be getting any better. It's kind of a shame. Quark was a fun company.