Interesting article re: Quark on OS X

buonrotto

<a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,613278,00.asp"; target="_blank">Andreas Pheiffer's report</a>



[quote]Quark's simultaneous bombshell went almost unnoticed: During a session at Seybold Seminars in San Francisco, James Therrien, manager of professional services at Quark, acknowledged that the next major version of QuarkXPress will run only on Mac OS X and Windows—not Mac OS 9.<hr></blockquote>



Somehow this news that Quark is essentially rewriting XPress slipped by me. I have to say that I'm surprised by that, but Quark might finally be getting its head out of its you-know-what. What could they offer though that will make it as or more compellling than InDesign? Will their scripting libraries remain intact? Is opening native Quark files enough? It probably is, but I'm curious to see what, if anything they plan to add or change in the package.

ghost_user_name

Yes, but last I heard, Quark was projecting a 2004 release. By then, Mac OS 9 will be long-dead since new machines would not have been able to boot it for a full year.



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overhope

I was in a graphics shop yesterday watching one of the designers rebooting his B&W a good half-dozen times as Express fell over repeatedly.



Thing is, he caught me smirking as the OS 9.1 (!) bootscreen popped up, and a fairly free debate followed about the merits of X and 9, not least my surprise at just how darned ugly 9 seems from the vantage point of X.



Point is, until Quark get Express out the door for X, he, like so many others, is stuck in ye olde worlde...

matsu

Won't Quark run in Classic? Apple isn't taking that away. Provided new machines are fast enough (GPul, G5, power-something I don't care, even 1.5Ghz G4's), running Quark in classic might end up being just as fast, yet more stable, than running it on an older OS9 machine.

buonrotto

To my knowledge, it does run in Classic, but I think there are some small glitches when doing so.



Apple just had a story about a grpahics shop going all OS X, and in the article it mentions runing Quark in Classic.



<a href="http://www.apple.com/creative/designprint/warrengroup/"; target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/creative/designprint/warrengroup/</a>;

ziploc

Quark previewed a Carbonized version of XPress 5 at MWNY 01. If there is going to be any delay of XPress 6 they need to release this as a FREE upgrade now!



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