It this because Quark became worse or because of real improvements in InDesignCS?
Both.
Quark 6 is, as the expression goes, buggier than a South American jungle. It crashes, it’s cranky about fonts (for example, it doesn’t like Adobe’s Univers Condensed one little bit, and will often throw up error messages or spontaneously quit when that typeface is used, even after a clean install straight from the Adobe Type Collection CD), its PDF generation (which is based on the JAWS RIP) is quite buggy, it has a nasty hapit of kernek panics on the Mac, it breaks existing XTensions…
….and for all that, you get little in the way if useful new features — but you can now make Web page layouts in Quark (not from a printed job, ind you, it has to be created as a Web layout), as if any sane person in his right mind would ever want to do that.
Meantime, Indy has become quite a sweet little page layout package, with extensive capabilities, particularly in regard to layering images and other page elements with transparency, that Quark simply can’t match. Oh, and its typographic controls are better, too.
Figure since the purpose of a page-layout app is to integrate images and type on a page, and Indy has better capabilities in both departments, it’s pretty much a no-brainer.
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