Is it as crap for you as it is for me??
Slow as buggery!!!
Takes ages to do anything and has trouble opening up version 6 documents.
Or am I just doing somthing wrong?
I'm just about to email Quark to see if they can shine any light on the matter..
Quark don't care as everyone moved to InDesign years ago ;)
However your porblems sound much like the mutterings I've been seeing around the web from those who didn't jump the Quark ship with the rest...
I'm migrating all my quark stuff over the indesign, sorry but Quark is a piece of shite.
"I'm migrating all my quark stuff over the indesign, sorry but Quark is a piece of shite."
There was a time when Quark absolutely ruled.
However, I don't think I've ever seen a company drop the ball as badly as they have. Their attitude from (frankly) 3.32 onwards has been to put out poorly tested new versions that usually only approach the usability of the previous version by revision X.2, whilst insisting that you pay as much for a full copy as you would for the whole Adobe Creative Suite.
Dunno how InDesign has developed from 2.0 (which I still use occasionally), but I always thought it was a lovely piece of software ...
Have they added auto page insertion yet? This was the only Quark feature that seemed to be missing ...
Cheers
Jim
There's no auto page insertion but that really pissed me off anyway.
InDesign is such a superior programme and the way it intergrates with Pshop and Illustrator is beautiful.
I've bought a plugin that will convert all QXD 5 and 6 files into INDD files, it's great - there's a few little tweaks you have to make but there's no crashing, no messing with links and the thing I like best is InDesigns Intuity, you tell it where one link is and it finds the rest - no messing around keep pressing the return key to update a shed load of files.
There's no auto page insertion but that really pissed me off anyway.
InDesign is such a superior programme and the way it intergrates with Pshop and Illustrator is beautiful.
I've bought a plugin that will convert all QXD 5 and 6 files into INDD files, it's great - there's a few little tweaks you have to make but there's no crashing, no messing with links and the thing I like best is InDesigns Intuity, you tell it where one link is and it finds the rest - no messing around keep pressing the return key to update a shed load of files.
"There's no auto page insertion but that really pissed me off anyway."
Oh, yeah - you needed to keep Auto Page Insertion (like Runaround) turned off by default, but I (relatively) recently experimented with a novel-length manuscript ...
Are you supposed to insert those pages and link those text frames manually? I couldn't find a way of doing it automatically.
The only other things I missed from Quark were Incremental Leading and the Trapping controls which, if they existed in ID2.0, were so well hidden that I never found them.
Oh ... and InDesign 2.0's built-in PANTONE support was a bit flaky. There was the world's easiest workaround, but still ...
Cheers!
Jim