i work in publishing as an editor, and I have to say that quark for x is bigger than most of you seem to imagine. Most publishing houses still run quark 3,33 from waaay back. Why? Because when you do a print run for a million books or so it had better work, and 3,33 works. Publishing could care less for a new os, what they care about is new tools - like this one. And since it is for OS X, its good for apple too. Now the last excuse has gone, even though publishing will probably still stick to their 603e macs and quark 3,33 for a while yet...
Oh. And Quark is usually twice the price for 6x, so $899 is actually ann amazing price as well...
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i work in publishing as an editor, and I have to say that quark for x is bigger than most of you seem to imagine. Most publishing houses still run quark 3,33 from waaay back. Why? Because when you do a print run for a million books or so it had better work, and 3,33 works. Publishing could care less for a new os, what they care about is new tools - like this one. And since it is for OS X, its good for apple too. Now the last excuse has gone, even though publishing will probably still stick to their 603e macs and quark 3,33 for a while yet ...
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Oh. And Quark is usually twice the price for 6x, so $899 is actually ann amazing price as well