Discovering that InDesign was actually superior to Quark was just the cherry on top. It was actually a bit strange turning to Adobe at first, because they had picked up Aldus, and Pagemaker with it, and it didn't have the best reputation. We didn't "switch" so much as we were forced to look elsewhere when the product disappeared. We weren't about to switch our entire computing platforms, thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, just so we could use a layout program from a company that seemed to want us gone.Īs far as the print community was concerned, Quark had stopped releasing software. Anyone who worked in print during the '90s and Aughts knows that Windows was disliked by designers for its poor handling of type and PostScript. Quark simply failed to release a version for the new OS, and like the article says, it treated Mac users with disdain when we asked for it. It all boiled down to one thing for me as a print designer at the time: OS X.
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