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QuarkXPress existed WAAAY before InDesign came out. It was the 800 pound gorilla in the publishing world for many years. InDesign was the insurgent and KILLED
by jonah 15y ago
QuarkXPress existed WAAAY before InDesign came out. It was the 800 pound gorilla in the publishing world for many years.
InDesign was the insurgent and KILLED Quark in short order - primarily because Quark had become such a legacy piece of junk and couldn't keep up with the times or the much more modern InDesign.
- philwelch 15y agoBefore InDesign killed Quark, Quark killed PageMaker. Going on how long it's been, i think InDesign is due for a killing by now.
- bonaldi 15y agotldr: It wasn't that they couldn't keep up with the times, it's that they didn't, because they were milking their cash cow hard and wilfully ignoring the future. Quark committed suicide: they outsourced virtually all of their R&D, leaving none of the people who had built the previous versions employed. They ignored their users, assuming they were captive, for more than a decade. They also ignored the move to OS X for literally years, leaving (mainly Mac-based) users to choose between staying on OS 9 and moving to Windows and buying all new hardware. Adobe came along at just the right moment with InDesign -- ran on OS X, best-of-class print tools -- and you could almost hear the stampede. A real pity, too, as InDesign has a horrorshow UI, while XPress's "make boxes, put things in them" metaphor is exactly how DTP should be done.
- jonah 15y ago> It wasn't that they couldn't keep up with the times, it's that they didn't. e.g. Microsoft, MySpace, etc. etc. I'd argue didn't and couldn't are essentially one-and-the-same.