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From the story on Macworld.com, Quark rolled out Xpress 7:
New York City’s trendy SoHo district is the setting for Quark’s rollout of QuarkXPress 7, the newest version of its page layout software for Mac OS X and Windows.
Two things stand out in the article:
First, no Universal Binary. That's this summer. Since CS Suite 3 isn't due until Spring of 2007, why not just wait, and do this once? I bet I know...can you say not a free upgrade? I knew you could. Wouldn't be the first time for Quark. Jack the version to 7.5, and make you pay. Whatever.
Second, this quote:
(Quark Senior VP of Desktop Products Jurgen)Kurz demonstrated how QuarkXPress users could apply filters and make adjustments to layers in Photoshop documents without having to open Photoshop. With the acquisition of ALAP (A Lowly Apprentice Production), no other software has the integration with Photoshop that QuarkXPress 7 does,” he said.
Oh, I just cannot wait to see the spin to justify that one. It won't be as cool as Chairman Fred screaming at a German journalist during a press conference at the last Seybold Boston, right after his keynote on the "kinder, gentler Quark", but it's still pretty amusing.
However, since you still have to buy CS Suite anyway, where's QuarkXpress better ENOUGH over InDesign to justify the price premium that QuarkXpress imposes? I've yet to see that. I'm glad they're still in business, but I'm not sure why other than inertia.
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Posted by John C. Welch at 11:59 | Permalink
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