Quark XPress 6 Pre-Release

**phatcactus** · March 26th, 2003, 08:55 AM

My shop still uses Quark and OS 9, but I just got InDesgin for school and I'm really really likin' it.

**toast** · March 26th, 2003, 11:17 AM

I find InDesign slow compared to Quark. Even though ID2 kills Quark on every other point, it is slow (esp. on big projects).

Of course if your daily use of DTP applications is building a few leaflets for school, ID fits. But for people working on serious 200-page projects using Quark+Bookletizer, ID is a pain in the butt.

**Lazzo** · March 26th, 2003, 06:20 PM

I've been saying that for ages, toast.

Xpress = production giant
ID2 = great for designers*

*Except when you put any colour and/or an image in an ID doc

. Drag!

**cabbage** · March 26th, 2003, 06:28 PM

I made a 130 page ad book for JDRF last year. Each page containted at least 1 - 7 images. There was probably over 300 images in the whole file single InDesign 2 file. It went very smoothly. No lag unless I put the full rez on for every single image but that's expected. That was on W2K, 800Mhz PIII w/384mb RAM.

**mdnky** · March 26th, 2003, 10:33 PM

I guess I've been lucky with the printers...most in my area have embraced ID 2 widely, with only a few holding out.

Think part of that has to deal with some special offering from Adobe. One of the places (small with a Xerox digital press and a ?!? 4-color) we use for our short runs was telling me they get a copy of every new Adobe app for around $600 US a year as a type of subscription.

**Lazzo** · March 27th, 2003, 04:30 AM

Hello cabbage - I get terrible lag on my 450 dual, in both 9 and X. It's a real clunker. I like the features though, so I recently produced a couple of jobs with ID demanding complex drop shadows. It did actually turn out quicker than using Pshop and being compromised 'twixt text & shadows.

Then I read the printer's spec (darn!), saved them as eps files with outline text, stuck 'em in Xpress and still kept the shadows. Nothing to stop me putting both on CD for the printer like that.

**toast** · March 27th, 2003, 05:48 AM

cabbage is right - on Windows machines, ID2 flows without any lagging.
On Macintosh, it's a whole different story

**cabbage** · March 27th, 2003, 11:42 AM

I've only done simple stuff in 9 about a year ago...that's when I was working at a Kinko's...ohh the memories. As for X in the past year I've done fairly simply stuff with a G4 that's about a year old. No lag at all.

and mdnky what you are talking about is the some Adobe Certified Print Provider or something like that. You get a single license copy of every program for both the Mac and PC two weeks before it's in stores.