Publisher's Description
From Quark, Inc.:
It's the industry standard
More people use QuarkXPress for creative design and page layout than any other software in the world. Period. Millions of users are now discovering the power of the new QuarkXPress 7, the most important QuarkXPress upgrade ever.
All the bells and whistles
QuarkXPress 7 boasts 160 new, innovative features. Take control of transparency with total independence. Create visually stunning graphics from within QuarkXPress 7 â?? no need to switch to another application. Use the revolutionary Composition Zones functionality to collaborate with multiple users anywhere in the world on the same layout at the same time. Optimize your production workflows with new Job Jackets technology. Work faster with a streamlined user interface and dynamic design tools.
What's new in this version: QuarkXPress 8 delivers superior design power through a new, intuitive interface developed purposefully for the creation of high-end page layout and includes new features such as built-in print, Web and Flash authoring tools, advanced typography control, and global publishing capabilities. QuarkXPress 8 also offers users an enhanced design experience so they can work faster and smarter by quickly and easily accessing the tools they need. The new, intuitive interface delivers updates that allow fo... See all new features
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2.1 starsout of 9 votes
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"Much faster than QXP 7 AND inDesign"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I switched to inDesign as soon as it was Mac OS X compatible, then had to use QXP 7 for work with certain clients. What a surprise to find a solid DTP app that blows inDesign CS X away for the slow and unwieldy software Adobe have made it.
Then QXP 8 arrived, wow it's fast. Still some bugs and rough areas but a great improvement and a much better interface that helps rather than hinders design. Adobe could learn a lot from Quark.
Files open with a rapidity that has to be experienced. Open the same files in QXP 7 and sit watching the spinning beachball whereas in QXP 8 they have almost instant access. Same with saving, collecting for output, making PDFs.
Some interesting new features too, hardly touched many of them. The master page and text box baseline grids need some development and the book pallet is still not fixed. Quark support has gone from the worst to the best. Free 24 hour telephone helpline being the best feature.
Given the choice now, I choose QXP over inDesign but I still use them both and have no axe to grind about either. -
"Quack Flops Again"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Have to agree with other 2 comments. $300 for a "modernized" Quack was a bad investment. If it walks and talks like a duck, Quack, Quack, it's still Quark.
Desperate times for a desperate company. Wish I could be more positive because somebody has to compete with the Adobe Frankenstein but after Q's 8.0 release, there still is nobody to do so.
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"Not worth the money"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I use both InDesign & Quark. Sad but Quark 8 is not worth the money. I already have tools for interactive web work, and unless I'm re-working previous files from a client, it's just easier to start from scratch with InDesign. -
"Unbelievable!"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Amazing.
After reading a few more or less positive reviews here and there, I thought I'd give em the benefit of the doubt and see for myself just how much improvement is built into the latest upgrade.
So, $300 bucks later, which is big money for yet another upgrade of what may now be the most expensive page layout program on the planet â?? lo and behold â?? you still can't drag and drop text blocks around inside text windows! This basic text composition feature is built into most simple OS X text editors today, and is even included in Apple Mail. But not here. Not Quark. Sure, you can drag text and images into a document from the desktop or outside of of the program. Big deal. That and other "new" features really should have been included in this program a long time ago. But you still can't drag and drop text around inside the document itself â?? uh â?? hello?
Hey. Who are these people giving glowing reviews to this expensive, disappointing software? Do they have some undisclosed relationship with Quark? Do they receive remuneration for reviewing this upgrade? Can't help but wonder. I mean, I'm sorry to cast aspersions, but after paying for, then downloading and installing version 8, and trying it out for a while, those positive reviews seem just a bit suspicious to me now.
Insert sound here of an idiot who blew $300 on yet another lackluster QXP upgrade banging his head on his desk in shame and disbelief.
Sigh. -
"The Quark we have, rather than the one we want..."
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Downloaded the 60-day trial. Aside from the usability "improvements", this is still Quark 3 under the hood. All the dialog boxes are still the same. You still can zoom in to only 800%. And they still have the friggin alien Easter egg when you command-delete a box! Startup is slow as ever and boy is it fugly. I don't know who designs Quark's icons and other user interface elements, but Office 2008 looks cutting edge in comparison. -
"Judge on its merits"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Why won't anyone download the 60-day trial, work with it and then post a review? Why live in the past? Judge QuarkXPress 8 on its merits.
I've been using it for three weeks or so. In that time there have been no crashes or unexpected quits - not that I get many problems with v7.
On a dual-processor G5 running Mac OS X 10.4, the screen redraws are much faster than with v7 - my productivity is definitely up irrespective of the new user interface. Being able to just draw a text box and instantly type into it is a no-brainer - should have been there years ago. And no, Adobe didn't 'invent' this for InDesign as it was a standard feature in PageMaker when I used it back in the early 90s.
The new user interface has allowed me to speed up quite considerably courtesy of instant object rotation, live preview of changes, Adobe-style bezier tools and the easy-to-use measurements palette.
Dragging text and graphics to or from any drag-&-drop-enabled app is also a useful addition, probably more so than some others such as being able to use grids on individual text boxes. But the new hanging characters feature and vertical alignment have their place in day-to-day work. It's also nice to see an end to language problems with QXP handling 30+ languages as standard.
Being able to import Illustrator files as well as Photoshop ones has useful and having Flash creation/exporting as standard makes QXP 8 an all-in-one for design: paper, web and presentation.
Yes, I use InDesign too but given the option I'd rather work in QXP and v8 has enough going for it to convince me to upgrade.
Vic Lennard
Cover disc editor, Macworld UK magazine -
"Typical"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
$300 dollars. That's more than two complete OSX installs and it's just too much money for a page layout application upgrade. I mean really!
Still, kinda irrationally wanting to see if the latest version is actually any better, I tried their online upgrade process. Lo and behold their web store won't accept my login information, declaring that my e-mail address is "not valid". Not valid! Ive been a QXP user since the late 80s, I've got the most recent version prior to 8, I haven't changed my e-mail address, and all of my info was current on their site the last time I logged on.
Other than some glitzy new online marketing graphics, just about everything this company does now is flawed. A once great company of the 80's and early 90's has turned into mush since the advent of X, primarily due to a corporate culture that puts end-user interests last and treats us with disdain. $300 dollars just for an upgrade! Maybe they are factoring the escalating cost of gas into their upgrade/download pricing.
Please see my original comments about when and where Quark went wrong and how they continue to goof up â?? about six posts down from here. -
"They Just Want More Money"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
$300 dollars MORE for this upgrade!
This has to be the greediest company in the entire software universe.
You may recall that despite thousands of pleas from their (at the time loyal) customer base, Quark refused to support Mac OSX for almost 2 years after Apple launched X.
Opps. Slight corporate blunder there I'd say.
Then when they finally caught on, and figured out that "Classic", OS9 was becoming a part of the past and they had missed the boat, the best they could do was to slap together a shabby port of the lousy old app, complete with all the same bugs and missing features, and the same clunky old classic-looking and classic-feeling interface. I mean, you couldn't even drag and drop text around properly in their "flagship" page layout program! (probably still can't).
Then to add insult to injury they ask users to pay large fees for each upgrade, more than the price of two new complete Mac OSX operating systems. And these Quark upgrades, at least so far have been astonishingly underwhelming.
And then, just as an added perk, they make the entire upgrade process as counter-intuitive, arcane and unpleasant as can possibly be.
So here they are again with yet another expensive upgrade, most likely with the habitual longer-than-your-arm security codes, which you have to enter manually, character by character, by hand (no copy and paste) as if you were trying to gain access to Fort Knox or something. Infuriating.
Do I begin to sound a touch bitter?
This is the most user-hostile, cheap and greedy company in all of software publishing today. To say Quark treats their customers without the proper sense of respect or appreciation would be a gynormous understatement. Quark treats us all with utter contempt. Just try calling them for support, if you want to see what sort of company you are dealing with here.
Those of us who still have old projects in QXP that we have to use from time to time may have to put up with this nonsense until the weight of Quark's mismanagement finally pulls them under for good. But that will be a happy day.
Thank goodness Adobe has a superior competing product.
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"zOMG! What's that smell?"
Version: QuarkXPress 8.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Somebody nail the darn coffin shut already- We're all tired of this corpse stinking up the place each time it gets back up to take money out of our wallets.
EVERYONE- walk toward the light.. and away from this.
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