Quark and Intel?

I saw that.

Originally posted by Amorya
We now have a competitor to Quark that is actually competitive, though. The only reason (and I admit it's a powerful one) keeping many people with Quark is legacy files/workflows. Maybe if InDesign is so much better a citizen then more people will switch?

We can only hope :)

Amorya Maybe, since quark is hurting so bad, Adobe could license the xpress format(s) and make a plugin availible for inDesign for a litle extra green, like they did with pagemaker, or develope a "painless transfer" kit to convert xpress->Indesign.

I don't use these apps day to day but from whatI hear most of quark is still geard to OS9, that means older slower hardware, ancient system archetexture, and probably a rotten codebase on the part of Quark, I could be wrong, but whenever I hear Quark mentioned, it is usualy in the same paragraph as "We still use OS9." If this is true, then Quark deserves to fail for not adapting to the changing technology. If adobe and Macromedia can switch the entire workflow to OSX smoothly, Quark ahould be able to as well.

I think a lot of Quark users are jumping ship to InDesign, so it shouldn't be an issue in the future.

Apple will probably still have to support PowerPC Macs for a while, but it won't be because of Quark.

In a recent article on MacWorld, Adobe attributed the adoption of InDesign to its ability to run on OS X while XPress ran in Classic. The switch to Intel is an opportunity for Quark to not lose further market share by having XPress 7 ship as a universal binary this fall or a chance for InDesign to strengthen its hold on the market if Adobe can ship a version of InDesign as a universal binary if Quark does not.

while having an os x native version certainly helped indesign, i probably would have switched regardless. indesign is just a better application than quark and it's much more interoperable with the other adobe apps obviously.