Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Nov 27 '00
Pros: a really upgrade;web design features;layers
Cons: Has to be one?
Summary: Being lucky to test the QuarkXpress 5 Beta, I couldn't resist to write a review just to intimate all people waiting the new edition of QuarkXpress - the industry standard.
The new edition of QuarkXpress justify the the number ... read more
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Jan 05 '04
Pros: Powerful and should meet any publishing task or requirement
Cons: Expensive, not intuitive, very poor help system and documentation.
Summary: First, it's best to begin this review with my profile to give you a balanced view. - I am new to Quark - I have expert level PC experience - I have advanced programming/networking experience Why Quark? Based on feedback and service bureau ... read more
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Jun 22 '01
Pros: Automatic wrap around of text to objects
Cons: Lacking in the color palettes and artwork.
Summary: Going through school to become a Master Internet Web Designer I've had to go through a lot of classes in page layout and design. When I first started with Adobe InDesign there were quite a few people in the class that just couldn't get the hang of ... read more
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Jun 06 '01
Pros: Quark is the standard in newspapers.
Cons: price
Summary: I work for the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, one of the 50 largest newspapers in the country. We use QuarkXpress to paginate our newspaper every day.
The beauty of Quark is that it can handle a large job like pagination of a major ... read more
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May 27 '01
Pros: There are too many to say….
Cons: Expensive (well worth it)
Summary: I start in the industry using paste up (not to give up my age). Soon I was working in DTP using all the new programs available to me. For seven years I worked with PageMaker. Then one day I looking though the want ads & saw that everyone wanted Quark ... read more
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Feb 25 '01
Pros: Good for simple projects.
Cons: Sucks for everything else. Widely used piece of crap.
Summary: At this moment I'm using Quark 4.1 and I must say this program has to be one of the most poorly designed programs on the consumer market today. But how is it that so many people like it, and why do so many companies use it? I have a theory that if you ... read more
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Feb 24 '01
Pros: completely capable tool
Cons: requires some experience, training
Summary: I've been using Quark for years at this point, but I've only recently upgraded to version 4.1. After a couple of weeks, I decided to review the product.
Overall, it's a great software package and I can't recommend it enough for producing any ... read more
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Dec 31 '00
Pros: Flexible, Powerful, Awesome
Cons: Can destroy earlier Xpress documents during updating
Summary: If this review can save you 1/100th of the anguish I went through you'll be glad you read it.
I've been involved in DTP since 1988 and have used Xpress as well as Pagemaker both Mac and Windows platforms. Without question, Quark Xpress in the ... read more
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Oct 27 '00
Pros: Fast and relatively stable. Includes a lot of features that makes desktop publishing a breeze.
Cons: It's getting old. Incompatibility between different language encoding. PDF export needs improvement. Relies too much on third-part extensions.
Summary: I have been using QuarkXPres 5 years ago and have recently switched to Adobe Indesign. Don't get me wrong, QuarkXPres is a professional level program that can handle desktop publishing sufficiently. It has a lot of nice features that makes desktop ... read more
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Jul 06 '00
Pros: Still a industry standard
Cons: Won't be a standard for long
Summary: I worked in a service bureau (print shop) for many years and swore by Quark 3.32. It was always consistent, and stable. If we ever had a problem file from another program, we would drop it into Quark, and it would usually print out fine. Then along came ... read more
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Jun 13 '00
Pros: Extensive typographic controls, good stylesheet implementation, excellent software for large documents.
Cons: Steep learning curve makes it overkill for the casual home user, still buggy after all these years, expensive.
Summary: Quark XPress is powerful professional-level publishing software for everything from brochures and ads to annual reports and books. It is the standard professional page layout software used by graphic design professionals throughout the world and is ... read more
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Jun 05 '00
Pros: industry standard, reliable results, service bureau support
Cons: cost, learning curve, tech support
Summary: Face it.. Quark is THE industry standard for graphic design and page layout. If you are doing this professionally and want to be able to have your work printed, Quark is the way to go. As a professional graphic designer who was weaned on Quark in design ... read more
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May 17 '00
Pros: Very easy to learn and use
Cons: Might be getting old
Summary: Can you explain it... a cheap and easy way to design whatever you want. Although you do not have everything that Adobe might, but it does have its advantages. It is very easy to learn and is even easier to use. I've used Quark for the first time when ... read more
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May 04 '00
Pros: You can do anything with Quark!
Cons: It takes a while to learn how...
Summary: I have been a QuarkXpress user for 4 years now, and I can't say enough good things about this program. Although it takes some time to become familiar with how the program works (I took a class on it), once you know, you can do ANYTHING in the graphics ... read more
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Apr 20 '00
Pros: Easy layout, lots to do
Cons: Expensive
Summary: I began using Quark 4 years ago. I didn't know a thing! It was so foreign. The previous 4 years, I used Pagemaker. Knew that like the back of my hand! I thought I was going to die when I had to switch. But I didn't. 8-)
Quark was ... read more
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