After planning a move from Q4.11 to CS2 for over a year and prepping for all that goes with it only to find out that those higher up the ladder decided that we needed to upgrade QuarkXpress instead I can only say one thing.
Joking (and gloating) aside, here’s hoping that the latest version of Xpress is a giant improvement for you. If you’re still using 4.11, though, I can’t imagine how it wouldn’t be.
That said, I really like InDesign. I can’t imagine going back at this point.
That’s the funny thing. So far Q4.11 is the best software they’ve produced.
We’ve tried copies of Quark 5 — a hideous stopgap while they worked on Q6 to make it OSX compliant and it broke almost every workflow we tried. It was a bad, BAD piece of software.
Q6 has some of the most draconian licensing and activation restrictions on the planet. I read nightmare scenarios of people being on hold in India for half an hour waiting to get a 40-digit code to unlock their software after a crash. On a newspaper deadline that would be catastrophic.
Q6.5 is out now but we’re going to wait for Q7 later this year before making the move.
I’m sure it will come with it’s own problems and once we move off Q4.11 then ID won’t open our Quark documents. It will open Quark 4.11 documents. If we were going to make the transition now is the best time.
I never used 5 or 6--and it seemed to me like there could be little worse than running 4.11 in the OS 9 environment inside of OS X. Xpress 4.11 inside of the emulation environment in OS X was just so slow.
I heard horrible things about 5, so decided to sidestep that for a while. When I did upgrade, it ended up being away from Quark just because I stopped having any level of faith in them to treat their customers right. No more Quark for me.
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After planning a move from Q4.11 to CS2 for over a year and prepping for all that goes with it only to find out that those higher up the ladder decided that we needed to upgrade QuarkXpress instead I can only say one thing.
I hate you.
*snicker*
Joking (and gloating) aside, here’s hoping that the latest version of Xpress is a giant improvement for you. If you’re still using 4.11, though, I can’t imagine how it wouldn’t be.
That said, I really like InDesign. I can’t imagine going back at this point.
That’s the funny thing. So far Q4.11 is the best software they’ve produced.
We’ve tried copies of Quark 5 — a hideous stopgap while they worked on Q6 to make it OSX compliant and it broke almost every workflow we tried. It was a bad, BAD piece of software.
Q6 has some of the most draconian licensing and activation restrictions on the planet. I read nightmare scenarios of people being on hold in India for half an hour waiting to get a 40-digit code to unlock their software after a crash. On a newspaper deadline that would be catastrophic.
Q6.5 is out now but we’re going to wait for Q7 later this year before making the move.
I’m sure it will come with it’s own problems and once we move off Q4.11 then ID won’t open our Quark documents. It will open Quark 4.11 documents. If we were going to make the transition now is the best time.
But mine is not to reason why…
I never used 5 or 6--and it seemed to me like there could be little worse than running 4.11 in the OS 9 environment inside of OS X. Xpress 4.11 inside of the emulation environment in OS X was just so slow.
I heard horrible things about 5, so decided to sidestep that for a while. When I did upgrade, it ended up being away from Quark just because I stopped having any level of faith in them to treat their customers right. No more Quark for me.
You truly do have my sympathy.
I might care, but I got no clue what you’re yapping about.
Matt, I think it’s drugs.