Using Quark XPress 7 with Adobe Creative Suite

Quark XPress

Today, QuarkXPress 7 has tighter integration with Photoshop and Illustrator tools than ever before, and through standards such as HTML and CSS, QuarkXPress users can publish across media — both independently and alongside Adobe Creative Suite applications such as Adobe Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver.

In this article you’ll find out how Creative Suite 2 and Creative Suite 3 users can get the best possible interaction with QuarkXPress. You’ll be surprised how easy Quark has made it to unlock the full potential of all your design software.

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Mon, 03/31/2008 - 10:13 — Kelly Prescott (not verified)

Quark thinks it's doing us a favor by pointing out all of these nifty features, and perhaps they are. Looking at this from a slightly different perspective, however, all I can see is a long line of train wrecks. The probability that average joe artist can take these features and render a project that his commercial printer can then put on press without difficulty is … well, it's simply not that likely. We've already had massive headaches from drop shadow usage, as an example. I can only hope that better implementation for print output workflows is one of the "features" in future releases.

I wouldn't hold your breath

Tue, 04/01/2008 - 04:16 — James

Quark is, more and more, moving away from "print" output. If you put aside the fact that they still have a large marketshare of the print output market, you'll see that Quark has spent all their time & research adding features that make a document look good on screen, and output to formats other than your standard postscript file.

I think Quark finally sees that the light at the end of the tunnel is a fast approaching freight train. They know Adobe is going to run them over with InDesign, it's only a matter of time.

Moving XPress to more of a Web-based file creation tool is actually the first smart thing Quark has done in 15 or so years. They just made the mistake they've been making forever, they forgot to tell their users.

Rumors weight heavily in the favor of XPress 7 being the last release of XPress client software. If we're to believe these rumors, Quark will sell XPress only as a network license, where you don't actually install software, only a key, and you have one server version. Ugh. I pity Quark users if this is true.

Source? True or Fudd?

Tue, 04/01/2008 - 05:44 — shell (not verified)

Dear Sir,

that sounds scary though this is the first I hear in that direction. I wouldn't understand this at all. And poor David Carson and Chipp Kidd.

But it doesn't make sense, they just released Quark 7.31 and the new QuarkDPS initiative where Quarkxpress please a vital role.

So may I ask where this information or rumor is coming from?

Or is this just Adobe FUDD?

Thanks
Shell.

Sorry, no Adobe FUDD here...

Tue, 04/01/2008 - 17:32 — James

One of the places I've read it is here. However, I've also heard it from a few people in the high-end print publishing industry who may (or may not) be privy to hearing things from within Quark itself.

Take the rumors for what they're worth.

Adobe is also leaving print

Wed, 04/02/2008 - 12:01 — Juan (not verified)

Hi, James,

Quark is not alone, Adobe is also leaving print. Photoshop Express was just the beginning.

InDeisgn Secrets revealed yesterday, that InDesign is also leaving print:

http: / / indesignsecrets.com/news-indesign-drops-support-for-print-publishing

Dramatic.

Hola
Juan

LOL

Fri, 04/04/2008 - 05:27 — James

Notice the date of publishing on that article?! ;-)