InDesign 3 will likely rock AND have competitive pricing, but hopefully Quark can get a free 6.1 update out before then to remain competitive. Rest assured InDesign won’t share the same, niche-market fates. In fact, they have TWO layout products already (Framemaker and PageMaker) that could not steal QuarkXPress’ crown. Windows 2000) on both platforms, so they likely couldn’t add all the features they wanted until the core program worked.Īdobe knows that publishing is still a huge market that they have not conquered. I heard they basically had to rewrite more than 40% of their codebase (kinda like Windows NT 4 vs. Good enough for most of their major clients. Still, Quark 6 should be good and functional if not revolutionary. If it does, it will suck extremely as MacOS X and Windows2000 and XP have extremely rich, BUILT IN multi-language capability, and charging that much money for what is essentially additional language packs, dictionaries, and layout rules should be a crime. I wonder if this will continue into the OS X version. Really sucks, though, how most non English speaking people are darn near FORCED to get XPress Passport to get any real use out of the program. I personally wish for several things it could do better, and its interface could be improved somewhat too, but the program itself is not bad. They are arrogant, and with competition from Adobe, face the threat of becoming second place.
