Comments on: QuarkXPress 6 = Dogshit http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Julie http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7064 Julie Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:54:56 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7064 I work at a printshop that refuses to spend any money. Therefor, i'm still running OS8 on some of these computers. I have only Quark and Pagemaker to choose from, and will choose quark each and every time. I have never had any problems with quark, and can make pdfs with no problem and have never had it crash on me or mangle a job. Perhaps it's my soothing trackball skills.. i do not know. Because my boss refuses to put any money into this department, we have to either turn away Indesign jobs, have them redo it it pagemaker or quark or send us a hi res pdf in color seps. My problem, since I started, has been with the stupid blue and white G3's that are as old as I am and sometime resemble stephen king's christine... I need an old priest and a young priest... I hve indesign at home, and do prefer it, but unfortunately, i dont' work at home, i work here... in hell. (:3 I work at a printshop that refuses to spend any money. Therefor, i’m still running OS8 on some of these computers. I have only Quark and Pagemaker to choose from, and will choose quark each and every time. I have never had any problems with quark, and can make pdfs with no problem and have never had it crash on me or mangle a job. Perhaps it’s my soothing trackball skills.. i do not know. Because my boss refuses to put any money into this department, we have to either turn away Indesign jobs, have them redo it it pagemaker or quark or send us a hi res pdf in color seps. My problem, since I started, has been with the stupid blue and white G3’s that are as old as I am and sometime resemble stephen king’s christine… I need an old priest and a young priest… I hve indesign at home, and do prefer it, but unfortunately, i dont’ work at home, i work here… in hell.
(:3

]]> By: Barry http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7063 Barry Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:23:43 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7063 As a tech in a the Worlds largest commercial printing firm let me say this....Quark 4 is solid, dependable, and works well.....soooooo now we have Quark 6 and yes indeed it truly blows....2004: the year Quark died! As a tech in a the Worlds largest commercial printing firm let me say this….Quark 4 is solid, dependable, and works well…..soooooo now we have Quark 6 and yes indeed it truly blows….2004: the year Quark died!

]]> By: susan bein http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7062 susan bein Tue, 18 May 2004 06:07:04 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7062 Started on pagemaker, taught Q for years, and switched to InDesign as soon as I could. NEVER going back. The killer for me was when I called Q to buy it for the lab at my public high school. They wanted SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for a license. I calmly explained that this was more than my entire budget for two years. The helpful, cold and unsympathetic person on the phone explained that I could buy a lab pack for only $3,000, but I wouldn't be able to buy upgrades. I finally said OK and she sent me SIX PAGES of paperwork to fill out, including my course outlines, to prove I merited this huge educational discount. Oh, and there was one more thing...I was supposed to install plastic 'dongles' on each and every machine in order for Q to work... I called Adobe and they beat the price. I spent about 20 minutes looking through the program and I was up and running in InDesign. I especially love teaching it to adults who are used to Quark and Pagemaker. As I go through its well-thought-out features, it's like giving them a series of presents, and the ooohs and aaahs are music to my ears. It has a few bugs, but Adobe upgrades, REALLY upgrades, often, and they listen and fix things. I called tech support a few months and got a great guy who spent almost half an hour with me, free. And by the way, if you haven't upgraded to the CS version of InDesign, it has some really worthwhile features. It's a much better beast than version 2. Quark is now paying for their arrogance and stupidity (a tabs window that covers your entire document and isn't re-sizeable, and then three years later, they upgrade and don't fix it...even stooopid ol' microsoft word uses a palette for tabs instead of a window. What a no-brainer!) The only feature I miss is jabberwocky, a short-lived way to create your own placeholder text in several flavors. Glad so many others share my total fed-upness with Q Started on pagemaker, taught Q for years, and switched to InDesign as soon as I could. NEVER going back.

The killer for me was when I called Q to buy it for the lab at my public high school. They wanted SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for a license. I calmly explained that this was more than my entire budget for two years. The helpful, cold and unsympathetic person on the phone explained that I could buy a lab pack for only $3,000, but I wouldn’t be able to buy upgrades. I finally said OK and she sent me SIX PAGES of paperwork to fill out, including my course outlines, to prove I merited this huge educational discount. Oh, and there was one more thing…I was supposed to install plastic ‘dongles’ on each and every machine in order for Q to work…

I called Adobe and they beat the price. I spent about 20 minutes looking through the program and I was up and running in InDesign. I especially love teaching it to adults who are used to Quark and Pagemaker. As I go through its well-thought-out features, it’s like giving them a series of presents, and the ooohs and aaahs are music to my ears. It has a few bugs, but Adobe upgrades, REALLY upgrades, often, and they listen and fix things. I called tech support a few months and got a great guy who spent almost half an hour with me, free.

And by the way, if you haven’t upgraded to the CS version of InDesign, it has some really worthwhile features. It’s a much better beast than version 2.

Quark is now paying for their arrogance and stupidity (a tabs window that covers your entire document and isn’t re-sizeable, and then three years later, they upgrade and don’t fix it…even stooopid ol’ microsoft word uses a palette for tabs instead of a window. What a no-brainer!)

The only feature I miss is jabberwocky, a short-lived way to create your own placeholder text in several flavors.

Glad so many others share my total fed-upness with Q

]]> By: Gaz h http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7061 Gaz h Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:06:16 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7061 hi im calmed now thanks for the outlet let me know how you are. we can talk about tranquil streams and rivers distant birds bathing next to water falls beautifull! hi im calmed now thanks for the outlet let me know how you are. we can talk about tranquil streams and rivers distant birds bathing next to water falls beautifull!

]]> By: Gaz h http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7060 Gaz h Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:03:49 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7060 after spending a whole night on a v tight deadline the fuckhead q6 decides to crash and delet the whole wanking file!!!! not to bring up the whole norton and suitcase conflict!!!3000 fonts and i cant manage one of them you fucking basterd quark!!! die die die!!!!!! and how dare you not fucking work after the whole mac world had had to wait for you money munching cunts to realese the product and then declare your greatness will 'free upgrades ' that dont even fucking work when you should be paying me to fucking use it bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards !!!!!!!!!! after spending a whole night on a v tight deadline the fuckhead q6 decides to crash and delet the whole wanking file!!!! not to bring up the whole norton and suitcase conflict!!!3000 fonts and i cant manage one of them you fucking basterd quark!!! die die die!!!!!! and how dare you not fucking work after the whole mac world had had to wait for you money munching cunts to realese the product and then declare your greatness will ‘free upgrades ‘ that dont even fucking work when you should be paying me to fucking use it bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards !!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Gaz h http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7059 Gaz h Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:02:35 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7059 die quark you fuckinn cock arrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!! after spending a whole night on a v tight deadline the fuckhead q6 decides to crash and delet the whole wanking file!!!! not to bring up the whole norton and suitcase conflict!!!3000 fonts and i cant manage one of them you fucking basterd quark!!! die die die!!!!!! ive allready dented the g5 in a rage next time its gonna be a quark md!!!! you fucker!!!!! ordering indesign is this gonna be any better??? why the hell cant these companys just make a friggin product.... barn on!!! and how dare you not fucking work after the whole mac world had had to wait for you money munching cunts to realese the product and then declare your greatness will 'free upgrades ' that dont even fucking work when you should be paying me to fucking use it bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards !!!!!!!!!! die quark you fuckinn cock arrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!! after spending a whole night on a v tight deadline the fuckhead q6 decides to crash and delet the whole wanking file!!!! not to bring up the whole norton and suitcase conflict!!!3000 fonts and i cant manage one of them you fucking basterd quark!!! die die die!!!!!! ive allready dented the g5 in a rage next time its gonna be a quark md!!!! you fucker!!!!! ordering indesign is this gonna be any better??? why the hell cant these companys just make a friggin product…. barn on!!! and how dare you not fucking work after the whole mac world had had to wait for you money munching cunts to realese the product and then declare your greatness will ‘free upgrades ‘ that dont even fucking work when you should be paying me to fucking use it bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards !!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: gaz h http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7058 gaz h Fri, 30 Apr 2004 02:00:29 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7058 a whole nights work erased!!!! a whole nights work erased!!!!

]]> By: Gaz h http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7057 Gaz h Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:54:44 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7057 die quark you fuckinn cock arrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!! after spending a whole night on a v tight deadline the fuckhead q6 decides to crash and delet the whole wanking file!!!! not to bring up the whole norton and suitcase conflict!!!3000 fonts and i cant manage one of them you fucking basterd quark!!! die die die!!!!!! ive allready dented the g5 in a rage next time its gonna be a quark md!!!! you fucker!!!!! ordering indesign is this gonna be any better??? why the hell cant these companys just make a friggin product.... barn on!!! and how dare you not fucking work after the whole mac world had had to wait for you money munching cunts to realese the product and then declare your greatness will 'free upgrades ' that dont even fucking work when you should be paying me to fucking use it bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards !!!!!!!!!! die quark you fuckinn cock arrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!! after spending a whole night on a v tight deadline the fuckhead q6 decides to crash and delet the whole wanking file!!!! not to bring up the whole norton and suitcase conflict!!!3000 fonts and i cant manage one of them you fucking basterd quark!!! die die die!!!!!! ive allready dented the g5 in a rage next time its gonna be a quark md!!!! you fucker!!!!! ordering indesign is this gonna be any better??? why the hell cant these companys just make a friggin product…. barn on!!! and how dare you not fucking work after the whole mac world had had to wait for you money munching cunts to realese the product and then declare your greatness will ‘free upgrades ‘ that dont even fucking work when you should be paying me to fucking use it bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards bastards !!!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Thoughtful http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7056 Thoughtful Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:09:10 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7056 Methinks that somehow the actual rudderless meandering of the once wave-making company, Quark, must be related to the retirement of the former captain of the ship, software visionary Tim Gill. That man deserves a lot of credit. But he called it quits between the releases of versions 4 and 5, if you catch my drift: isn't that when things began to go bad? The XML stuff was a good idea, just poorly implemented, as he had left before it was fully written. So, now that he's definitively moved on to other things, would someone please go over there and start driving that QuarkXPress thing in a good direction again, PLEASE? Methinks that somehow the actual rudderless meandering of the once wave-making company, Quark, must be related to the retirement of the former captain of the ship, software visionary Tim Gill. That man deserves a lot of credit. But he called it quits between the releases of versions 4 and 5, if you catch my drift: isn’t that when things began to go bad? The XML stuff was a good idea, just poorly implemented, as he had left before it was fully written. So, now that he’s definitively moved on to other things, would someone please go over there and start driving that QuarkXPress thing in a good direction again, PLEASE?

]]> By: Mike http://blurbomat.com/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit/#comment-7055 Mike Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:09:45 +0000 http://blurbomat.com/wp/archives/2004/03/18/quarkxpress-6-dogshit#comment-7055 If Quark XPress won't work on a beautiful, easy to use macintosh, then your Windows version is F@@ked. Better get a new Job. ;) If Quark XPress won’t work on a beautiful, easy to use macintosh, then your Windows version is F@@ked.

Better get a new Job. ;)

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