| Aaah mate, you really don't have to tell me 'bout InDesign's strengths (over the very, very tired Quark)... you're preaching to the well and truely converted.
I totally agree; InDesign is a far superior bit of kit, but as you say, ..."your employer forces you to". The company that I've just started working for are proper old school Quark heads (v4 on OS9.... ouch!!), and it's doing my head in (a little bit). I'm having to use Quark again, and it's sssooOOOOOooOo rubbish.
Obviously, I'm trying to encourage (force) a change of direction in them, namely OSx and Adobe CS, but v.tight deadlines mean that the other bod's in the studio won't have spare time to adjust (and they're not particularly fast with any of the other Adobe products). I just needed to know if from a Quark user's point of view the app feels and works the same (ie. all the keystrokes work correctly). I know ID is fully customisable from Adobe's point of view, but I needed to hear it from the horses mouth.... an x-Quark user, not the Adobe marketing department.
Without the luxury of spare time the switch might cause a certian amount of stress in the office, so I need to satisfy myself in advance that old files can be opened, and old dogs won't find it too hard to learn new tricks.
It's good news that InDesign can open old Quark files. That should help my mission to convert the others.
Thanks very much Mr. Beard  |