Quark Acquired by Parallax Capital Partners to Support Accelerated Growth (http://www.quark.com/About_Quark/Press/PressDetail.aspx?ncid=2285)
Wonder if that means Quark's infamous customer service will improve or get worse. I pick the latter.
Does this article sound like no one involved really knows what they bought or understand what they're saying? Granted our last version of Quark was 7 and we don't have it installed anymore (It doesn't work on Sierra or earlier if I remember right). What the heck is this Content Automation they repeat over and over anyway?
Right on their front page so it must be true, right? :sarcasm:
Quark: Introducing Content Automation (http://www.quark.com/)
Hopefully none of us will get any of those files.
And you just cursed us. :P
Well, not me because I barley get any files anymore.
Quote from: Joe on July 12, 2017, 01:09:22 PMRight on their front page so it must be true, right? :sarcasm:
Quark: Introducing Content Automation (http://www.quark.com/)
I'm not clicking that link...
the goog is watching and I don't want a bunch of Quark ads popping up...
or it could be a rick roll. Either way you're hosed.
Quote from: david on July 12, 2017, 02:24:45 PMQuote from: Joe on July 12, 2017, 01:09:22 PMRight on their front page so it must be true, right? :sarcasm:
Quark: Introducing Content Automation (http://www.quark.com/)
I'm not clicking that link...
the goog is watching and I don't want a bunch of Quark ads popping up...
or it could be a rick roll. Either way you're hosed.
Oh come on. You know you want to click it!
Interesting read...
Commentary: Sale of Quark Software Is Latest Chapter for Former Desktop Publishing Powerhouse (http://www.piworld.com/article/commentary-sale-of-quark-latest-chapter-for-company-that-destroyed-its-desktop-publishing-software-dynasty/#ne=7de2dcea0740e1824e66c8209749f5fautm_source=today-on-piworldutm_medium=newsletterutm_campaign=2017-07-12&utm_content=commentary%3A+sale+of+quark+software+is+latest+chapter+for+former+desktop+publishing+powerhouse-4)
Well this is what they say about customer service:
QuoteQuark has reinvigorated its QuarkXPress software business, consistently putting customers first and out-innovating its competitors.
I bet you can expect customer service to be
GREAT! :sarcasm: For some reason I find it hard to believe anything in this article except the part about them getting bought up... It might be because it sounds like it was written internally by Quark and is posted on their own site. :undecided:
Whenever I hear about private equity stuff I think of the Winklevoss Twins. :rotf:
Quote from: frailer on July 12, 2017, 08:06:51 PMWhenever I hear about private equity stuff I think of the Winklevoss Twins. :rotf:
Had to Google Winklevoss Twins to even know who they are. :D
Yeah... Zukerberg's 'mates'. :rotf:
Quark was walking dead years ago. It just needs a stake in the heart to end the misery. I can honestly say that we haven't received a Quark file since 2010. Even then, I rejected the file and told the client to send a pdf.
Quote from: Joe on July 12, 2017, 08:14:07 PMQuote from: frailer on July 12, 2017, 08:06:51 PMWhenever I hear about private equity stuff I think of the Winklevoss Twins. :rotf:
Had to Google Winklevoss Twins to even know who they are. :D
They look like the standard frat boy living on daddy's money with a little of date rape sprinkled in.
Quote from: Farabomb on July 13, 2017, 06:52:06 AMQuote from: Joe on July 12, 2017, 08:14:07 PMQuote from: frailer on July 12, 2017, 08:06:51 PMWhenever I hear about private equity stuff I think of the Winklevoss Twins. :rotf:
Had to Google Winklevoss Twins to even know who they are. :D
They look like the standard frat boy living on daddy's money with a little of date rape sprinkled in.
... you got it. They figured in the film Social Network, if any of you saw it.
Quote from: andyfest on July 13, 2017, 05:36:22 AMQuark was walking dead years ago. It just needs a stake in the heart to end the misery. I can honestly say that we haven't received a Quark file since 2010. Even then, I rejected the file and told the client to send a pdf.
Agreed. I love Quark and used it for many years - it was better than Pagemaker at the time but things have moved on. Quark isn't 100% Postscript compatible and that puts it in the same category as Microsoft Publisher for me. We ask clients to supply PDFs and to check those PDFs before they are sent, because however they look, that is what you will get.