Anyone have anything good to say about Quark for a change?
I do.
When you quit the application it closes quickly, most of the adobe apps take forever it seems.
I have tons of good things to say about v.4.1
Quote from: pspdfppdfx on October 01, 2007, 10:16:51 AMAnyone have anything good to say about Quark for a change?
I do.
When you quit the application it closes quickly, most of the adobe apps take forever it seems.
I'd have to agree with that, but after closing it down, there's no compelling reason to open it again :)
Quote from: pspdfppdfx on October 01, 2007, 10:16:51 AMAnyone have anything good to say about Quark for a change?
It's better at page layout than Microsoft Word.
I liked being able to delete all guides at once by option-clicking the ruler.
Quote from: Joe on October 01, 2007, 10:47:49 AMQuote from: pspdfppdfx on October 01, 2007, 10:16:51 AMAnyone have anything good to say about Quark for a change?
It's better at page layout than Microsoft Word.
Or pubicsler and PageRacker! ;D
I like the fact that in the time Q7 takes to make a pdf I can evolve into a higher life form.
Quoteoriginally posted by Pointyhat
I have tons of good things to say about v.4.1
Me too, except that v4 wasn't much of an upgrade considering all the problems it caused over 3.7
in a wierd way i kinda like its icon.....
i do find it rips files quicker than adobe apps - is that coz it screws files up quicker tho? :-\
Version 7 now exports a usable pdf file.
Quote from: ddog on October 02, 2007, 01:48:59 PMVersion 7 now exports a usable pdf file.
Be careful with export to pdf in 7. Most appeared ok but a few didn't pan out for me, the graphics were lowres. Not all, only some and why this is is beyond me. I now print to postscript, distill and have not had an issue since.
It keeps me in a job!!! :P
It rhymes with Fark!
also, without Quark, I'd get far less overtime.
it's a very good reason to have another drink!
cheers!
8)
i do quite like the "quit quack" command
and i can remember the keystrokes for that too
:P
also we would'nt have that delightful easter egg of the alien with the bazooka blowing up the little guy. It's such a classic that it hasn't changed since verion 3? i think. Stunning display, I watch it at least once a month
Quote from: beermonster on October 03, 2007, 09:12:46 AMi do quite like the "quit quack" command
and i can remember the keystrokes for that too
:P
That cat is killing me, beermonster! ;D
Quote from: ddog on October 02, 2007, 01:48:59 PMVersion 7 now exports a usable pdf file.
Only if you like random objects dropping out at RIP time. ;D
AWESOME!
(http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6079/quarkiu3.jpg)
Makers of Headache medicine would stay in Business! ;);)
well get out the way jim - he's currently aiming at quack's headquarters.....so that must mean......wait a goddang second - jim - why are you sitting in the marketing department of quack???????? OMG!!!!! jim's a plant <no - not a herb> :ninja:
OK. So let's review.
Quark users are likely to become alcoholics and pill poppers. Your wife is probably cheating on you and your kids don't even remember your name because Quark keeps you from ever getting home. And unless you are outputting 2 color letterheads and business cards Quark can't even generate a reliable PDF. The most common file format in the industry has only been around since 1993. Give them time. But please take it easy on our friends at Quark......that alien is the best! And it rhymes with Fark.
Quote from: Joe on October 03, 2007, 10:58:42 AMQuote from: ddog on October 02, 2007, 01:48:59 PMVersion 7 now exports a usable pdf file.
Only if you like random objects dropping out at RIP time. ;D
yep.. seen this one MANY times..
I like that its a challenge to guess which objects will drop.
Ahhh yes...and it's never the same object twice in a row. Keeps me on my toes.
yep, keeps the brain sharp.. I dont mind that part one bit.. :D
Quote from: tomu570 on October 22, 2007, 12:25:48 PMOK. So let's review.
Quark users are likely to become alcoholics and pill poppers. Your wife is probably cheating on you and your kids don't even remember your name because Quark keeps you from ever getting home. And unless you are outputting 2 color letterheads and business cards Quark can't even generate a reliable PDF. The most common file format in the industry has only been around since 1993. Give them time. But please take it easy on our friends at Quark......that alien is the best! And it rhymes with Fark.
hmmm...yeah....learned that lesson too late!
Great thread. :laugh:
I had to launch q today, it's been at least a week. I feel dirty now. :embarrassed:
Downloaded the version 8 sixty day demo for 1 job that came in. Next time I had to use it, the demo had expired and if not for this site and DCS in particular, would not have gotten the job out.
So at least we can band together to overcome our Quark headaches...sort of like the west against the commies in the 50's and 60's. (or something like that).
Okay, since this thread was resurrected...there is a new patch that reinstalls it to version 8.5.
I haven't run any jobs in it, but it did open.
At least it's better that Publisher... Oh, and it's still better than Pagemaker, not that anybody uses that anymore (thank the gods!)
Silly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
Quote from: NefariousDrO on November 24, 2010, 03:26:56 PMAt least it's better that Publisher... Oh, and it's still better than Pagemaker, not that anybody uses that anymore (thank the gods!)
Sure they don't. I get 4 or 5 a month.
I haven't used it (PageMaker) in months. :grin:
Quote from: Farabomb on November 24, 2010, 03:32:07 PMSilly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
I feeel wonderful right now.
For your information Pagemaker 6.5 will open into INDD CS5 perfectly. Now I can kick my G4 out the door. Yippee.
This week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning. F! BUT 1 day left in warranty and 24 hours later new HD and I began the task to rebuild my world. I have NOT installed Quark and do not plan to, letting a tear fall on my cheek. This has to be a first - I first installed it using V3.1 in the 80's and now officially retired it, at least until some bastid forces me to reinstall . Not looking for that battle.
Quote from: Chilbear on November 24, 2010, 04:33:11 PMThis week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning.
:shocked:
Quote from: Chilbear on November 24, 2010, 04:33:11 PMQuote from: Farabomb on November 24, 2010, 03:32:07 PMSilly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
I feeel wonderful right now.
For your information Pagemaker 6.5 will open into INDD CS5 perfectly. Now I can kick my G4 out the door. Yippee.
This week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning. F! BUT 1 day left in warranty and 24 hours later new HD and I began the task to rebuild my world. I have NOT installed Quark and do not plan to, letting a tear fall on my cheek. This has to be a first - I first installed it using V3.1 in the 80's and now officially retired it, at least until some bastid forces me to reinstall . Not looking for that battle.
Yeah what was that? I had a horrible week, too. Not quite as bad as yours, but not the average work week. The holiday crap that comes in, let's just say Desingers are getting RETARDED creative. I've seen the color Registration used more times this last week, then the last 2 months. And of course 877.... always 877. In process color, of course.
That's nothing compared to the shenanigans I've dealt with regarding warm vs cool gray 10. It's absurd and related to the thread I started about "please don't design business cards in Illy". In the past 6 weeks this one file has caused so much bullshit and wasted ink/paper. That's what happens when you have a desinger design something.
Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 10:58:59 PMQuote from: Chilbear on November 24, 2010, 04:33:11 PMQuote from: Farabomb on November 24, 2010, 03:32:07 PMSilly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
I feeel wonderful right now.
For your information Pagemaker 6.5 will open into INDD CS5 perfectly. Now I can kick my G4 out the door. Yippee.
This week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning. F! BUT 1 day left in warranty and 24 hours later new HD and I began the task to rebuild my world. I have NOT installed Quark and do not plan to, letting a tear fall on my cheek. This has to be a first - I first installed it using V3.1 in the 80's and now officially retired it, at least until some bastid forces me to reinstall . Not looking for that battle.
Yeah what was that? I had a horrible week, too. Not quite as bad as yours, but not the average work week. The holiday crap that comes in, let's just say Desingers are getting RETARDED creative. I've seen the color Registration used more times this last week, then the last 2 months. And of course 877.... always 877. In process color, of course.
I've had many a battle lately over bleed, trim, and safety. I wish murder was legal.
PS: Quark sucks.
Quote from: Joe on November 24, 2010, 11:07:01 PMQuote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 10:58:59 PMQuote from: Chilbear on November 24, 2010, 04:33:11 PMQuote from: Farabomb on November 24, 2010, 03:32:07 PMSilly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
I feeel wonderful right now.
For your information Pagemaker 6.5 will open into INDD CS5 perfectly. Now I can kick my G4 out the door. Yippee.
This week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning. F! BUT 1 day left in warranty and 24 hours later new HD and I began the task to rebuild my world. I have NOT installed Quark and do not plan to, letting a tear fall on my cheek. This has to be a first - I first installed it using V3.1 in the 80's and now officially retired it, at least until some bastid forces me to reinstall . Not looking for that battle.
Yeah what was that? I had a horrible week, too. Not quite as bad as yours, but not the average work week. The holiday crap that comes in, let's just say Desingers are getting RETARDED creative. I've seen the color Registration used more times this last week, then the last 2 months. And of course 877.... always 877. In process color, of course.
I've had many a battle lately over bleed, trim, and safety. I wish murder was legal.
PS: Quark sucks.
It is under DCS law.
Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 11:21:05 PMQuote from: Joe on November 24, 2010, 11:07:01 PMQuote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 10:58:59 PMQuote from: Chilbear on November 24, 2010, 04:33:11 PMQuote from: Farabomb on November 24, 2010, 03:32:07 PMSilly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
I feeel wonderful right now.
For your information Pagemaker 6.5 will open into INDD CS5 perfectly. Now I can kick my G4 out the door. Yippee.
This week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning. F! BUT 1 day left in warranty and 24 hours later new HD and I began the task to rebuild my world. I have NOT installed Quark and do not plan to, letting a tear fall on my cheek. This has to be a first - I first installed it using V3.1 in the 80's and now officially retired it, at least until some bastid forces me to reinstall . Not looking for that battle.
Yeah what was that? I had a horrible week, too. Not quite as bad as yours, but not the average work week. The holiday crap that comes in, let's just say Desingers are getting RETARDED creative. I've seen the color Registration used more times this last week, then the last 2 months. And of course 877.... always 877. In process color, of course.
I've had many a battle lately over bleed, trim, and safety. I wish murder was legal.
PS: Quark sucks.
It is under DCS law.
They've remade Red Dawn set to release next year. It has nothing to do with anything here but thought I would let you know.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/)
Awesome.
Someone here on the forum posted a quark tombstone which I printed out and have on my bulletin board at work. Just today a Xerox tech leaned over to look at it and he chuckled and said something like "I remember the day when quark was the bomb, now it just sucks."
Quote from: Joe on November 24, 2010, 11:28:55 PMQuote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 11:21:05 PMQuote from: Joe on November 24, 2010, 11:07:01 PMQuote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 10:58:59 PMQuote from: Chilbear on November 24, 2010, 04:33:11 PMQuote from: Farabomb on November 24, 2010, 03:32:07 PMSilly, now you are going to get 3 ragemaker jobs before the year is over. Never anger the gods.
I feeel wonderful right now.
For your information Pagemaker 6.5 will open into INDD CS5 perfectly. Now I can kick my G4 out the door. Yippee.
This week has been hell. My HD quit, kaput mid coffee slurp on Monday morning. F! BUT 1 day left in warranty and 24 hours later new HD and I began the task to rebuild my world. I have NOT installed Quark and do not plan to, letting a tear fall on my cheek. This has to be a first - I first installed it using V3.1 in the 80's and now officially retired it, at least until some bastid forces me to reinstall . Not looking for that battle.
Yeah what was that? I had a horrible week, too. Not quite as bad as yours, but not the average work week. The holiday crap that comes in, let's just say Desingers are getting RETARDED creative. I've seen the color Registration used more times this last week, then the last 2 months. And of course 877.... always 877. In process color, of course.
I've had many a battle lately over bleed, trim, and safety. I wish murder was legal.
PS: Quark sucks.
It is under DCS law.
They've remade Red Dawn set to release next year. It has nothing to do with anything here but thought I would let you know.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/)
I heard about that, but thanks for reminding me. I meant to look into it. Red Dawn... changed my life.
Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 11:47:19 PMRed Dawn... changed my life.
Ditto. And it's one of the shittiest movies ever. :laugh: Unless you look beneath the surface, of course...
Quote from: gnubler on November 24, 2010, 11:49:17 PMQuote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 24, 2010, 11:47:19 PMRed Dawn... changed my life.
Ditto. And it's one of the shittiest movies ever. :laugh: Unless you look beneath the surface, of course...
You DO understand. :wink: :ninja:
Duh. I think you already knew that. Roadhouse? HELLO??? :sarcasm:
Quark tombstone...haha....but they are STILL AROUND.... don't think some people will ever stop using it, they can't cope with the "learning curve" on InDesign or are just plain addicted to frustration. That's always possible.
yeah, I think a lot of the desingers who started with quark, keep upgrading
They are never shown how to use indesign, I would be willing to teach them.
we upgrade our version of quark just for 2-3 customers.
Quote from: Tracy on November 25, 2010, 09:01:32 AMyeah, I think a lot of the desingers who started with quark, keep upgrading
They are never shown how to use indesign, I would be willing to teach them.
we upgrade our version of quark just for 2-3 customers.
Same here. We have one customer in particular that has been hanging onto Quark like a life raft for years. His main concern is having to re-learn a new program. I haven't had the heart to tell him he isn't that good on the one he is using (Quark). I think this week we've talked him into a new Mac Mini and CS5. We'll see.
well in my new field of business seems the standards in rips n stuff are caldera, postershop etc (afaik not appe based yet), and i had a fantastic conversation with the quark "fanatic" who said creative suite didnt work and the colours were always wrong from files that originate from creative suite etc. there were always little elements that somehow became tiffs and changed colour when he dropped them into quark and ripped em......
....then he told me postscript wasn't dead :banghead:
and he'd never heard of "appe" at all........as for "pdf rendering" - pffft you'd have thought he was thinking i was making it up the look on his face :laugh: :laugh:
very nice chap and i think i'm gonna get some work off him :cheesy:
Hey Beermonster!
Sounds like your business is working out!
Quote from: beermonster on November 25, 2010, 10:19:21 AMwell in my new field of business seems the standards in rips n stuff are caldera, postershop etc (afaik not appe based yet), and i had a fantastic conversation with the quark "fanatic" who said creative suite didnt work and the colours were always wrong from files that originate from creative suite etc. there were always little elements that somehow became tiffs and changed colour when he dropped them into quark and ripped em......
....then he told me postscript wasn't dead :banghead:
and he'd never heard of "appe" at all........as for "pdf rendering" - pffft you'd have thought he was thinking i was making it up the look on his face :laugh: :laugh:
very nice chap and i think i'm gonna get some work off him :cheesy:
Hello beer...
Sounds like he is stuck in 1998. Most Quark diehards are though. And you can tell he keeps up with the industry. :sarcasm:
Hey beer, some things change, but some stay the same. :laugh: Headbanging customers, for one... :rolleyes: